Guwahati, 24 November. On the pitch of the country’s new Test center i.e. Barsapara Cricket Stadium, on which the South African batsmen were successful in scoring 489 runs, the home batsmen surrendered to the opposition pacer Marco Jansen (6-48) and off-spinner Simon Harmer (3-64) and Team India’s first innings was limited to only 201 runs.

Host innings limited to 201 runs, guests did not follow up

However, despite a strong lead of 288 runs, South Africa did not make the hosts follow up and for the third consecutive day in the second and final Test, when the play ended before the scheduled time due to low light, the guests had scored 26 runs without loss in the second innings. At that time Aiden Markram was playing on 12 and Ryan Rickelton was playing on 13 runs.

The Proteas last won a Test series on Indian soil in 2000.

This means that the total lead of the Proteas has reached 314 runs and by tightening the noose on the match, they have strengthened their hopes of a clean sweep in a Test series on Indian soil after two and a half decades. The last time in 2000, under the captaincy of Hansie Cronje, South Africa won the two-Test series 2-0 on Indian soil. South Africa won the first test match played in Kolkata by 30 runs.

Yansen took 5 or more wickets in an innings for the fourth time in his career.

However, the hero of the day was the tall bowling all-rounder Marco Jansen, who after playing a valuable inning of 93 runs in the first innings, took five or more wickets for the fourth time in his career and also took a brilliant catch of Yashasvi Jaiswal (58 runs, 97 balls, 128 minutes, one six, seven fours), who scored the only half-century in the Indian innings. Yansen also got good support from Harmer while Markram played an important role by taking five catches.

India lost 6 wickets within 27 runs after 1-95.

Going by the previous evening’s score of 0-9, India had at one stage scored 95 runs after losing the wicket of KL Rahul (22 runs, 63 balls, 92 mins, 2 fours), who had added 65 runs for the first wicket with Yashasvi. But after this, six batsmen returned within 27 runs (7-122).

score card

The pitch is getting some bounce and a bit of turn at times, but it is still batting friendly. But most of the Indian batsmen gave away their wickets by playing wrong shots. These mainly include Sai Sudarshan (15 runs), Dhruv Jurel (0) and captain Rishabh Pant (seven runs).

Partnership of 72 runs on the eighth wicket between Sundar and Kuldeep

It was fortunate that the lower order batsmen – Washington Sundar (48 runs, 92 balls, 127 minutes, one six, two fours) and Kuldeep Yadav (19 runs, 134 balls, 134 minutes, three fours) made a partnership of 72 runs for the eighth wicket, otherwise it seemed difficult for the team to even reach 200 runs at one time. Presently, in the last session, Harmer broke the partnership by returning Sundar and the last three batsmen were out within seven runs. Yansen finished the Indian innings by taking the last two wickets.