India vs South Africa: The second Test ends in less than two days.©AFP
India conducts a Test series in South Africa for the first time in 23 years. It happened in a dramatic situation as the Indian cricket team won the second Test match of the two-match series in less than five matches. Only 107 rounds were played, making it the shortest game in the history of the format. There was drama in Cape Town right from day one, with 23 wickets falling. First South Africa was eliminated with 55 runs and then India was eliminated with 153 runs. After South Africa scored 176 runs in the second innings, the match ended in the second session on day two as India surpassed the target of 79 runs by 7 wickets.
Industrialist Anand Mahindra has an interesting take on the game. Anand Mahindra wrote in a post on
I feel like I can’t watch it anymore #SAvsIND match.
Can’t handle the gravity at this speed… pic.twitter.com/c00OvORfEU— Anand Mahindra (@anandmahindra) January 4, 2024
Talking about the second day of the second Test, India’s priceless fast bowling machine Jasprit Bumrah produced a hostile spell to guide India to the shortest match in Test history China defeated South Africa by seven wickets.
Bumrah (6/61 in 13.5 overs), a master of fast bowling, took out South Africa’s middle order on a threatening morning, while Aiden Markram (106 in 103 balls) ball) then fought like lone rangers on a burning deck, taking South Africa to 176 in 36.5 overs at lunch the next day.
Even on the toughest of tracks, the target of 79 runs was not a difficult task and young Yashasvi Jaiswal (28) completed it in the company of skipper Rohit Sharma (16 not out) in the company of Shreyas Iyer (4 not out) He swung the bat in just 12 overs before taking the formalities 6).
It was India’s first win at Newlands in seven attempts and it will be remembered for the animosity displayed by two Indian fast bowlers – Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj, They took a career-best six-wicket haul in the Indian Championship, beating South Africa by 55 runs. first round.
The series-tying win gave Rohit the bragging rights of becoming only the second captain after Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2010-11) to tie a series in the Rainbow Nation. .
With PTI input
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