India suffered a humiliating defeat by an innings and 32 runs to South Africa as their probabilities of conquering the Remaining Frontier remained a distant dream as soon as once more.
South African pacers Nandre Burger (4/33), Kagiso Rabada (2/32) and Marco Jansen (3/36) rained hearth as India misplaced wickets at common intervals and in the end fell to an notorious defeat.
Virat Kohli was the one shiny spot of an in any other case extraordinary Indian batting lineup, scoring 76 in 82 balls earlier than falling to Jansen as Rabada took an excellent working catch. He was additionally the final Indian wicket to fall because the guests went down 1-0 within the 2-match Take a look at collection.
At Tea, India have been already 3 down for 63 of their second innings after dismissing South Africa for 408 on day 3 of the opening Take a look at on Thursday.
India, who had scored 245 of their first innings, misplaced Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Using on Dean Elgar’s superbly-crafted 185 and Marco Jansen’s career-best 84, the hosts had posted a wholesome first-innings rating of 408.
Elgar, whose earlier highest Take a look at rating is 199, was inching in direction of his maiden double hundred earlier than a faint tickle to a leg-side bouncer from Shardul Thakur introduced an finish to his innings.
However that didn’t deter the lanky Jansen, not precisely identified for his batting prowess, from negotiating a deflated Indian assault that appeared out of types and bereft of concepts.
The Elgar-Jansen pair added 111 runs for the sixth wicket.
On the break, Kohli and Shreyas Iyer have been on the crease.
After Tea, the procession of India wickets continued with Iyer (6), KL Rahul (4), Ravichandran Ashwin (0) and Shardul Thakur (2) all going again to the pavilion in fast time.
Jasprit Bumrah was run out for 0 whereas Mohammed Siraj was gone for 4 as 8 Indian batters failed to achieve double figures.
India will subsequent journey to Cape City for the second and last Take a look at of the collection which is able to begin on January 3.
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First uploaded on: 28-12-2023 at 20:33 IST
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