India suffered a humiliating defeat by an innings and 32 runs to South Africa as their possibilities of conquering the Ultimate Frontier remained a distant dream as soon as once more.
South African pacers Nandre Burger, Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen rained hearth as India misplaced wickets at common intervals and in the end fell to an notorious defeat.
Virat Kohli was the one brilliant spot of an in any other case extraordinary Indian batting lineup, scoring 76 in 82 balls.
At Tea, India had been already 3 down for 63 of their second innings after dismissing South Africa for 408 on day 3 of the opening Check right here 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 Check rating is 199, was inching in the 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 recognized for his batting prowess, from negotiating a deflated Indian assault that regarded 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 had been on the crease.
After Tea, the procession of India wickets continued with Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin and Shardul Thakur all going again to the pavilion in fast time.