The Indian cricket workforce slumped to a 408-run defeat towards South Africa at Guwahati, its heaviest defeat at residence by margin of runs. The consequence implies that Gautam Gambhir’s aspect had been swept 0-2 by South Africa within the two-match Take a look at sequence at residence after shedding the second Take a look at. Chasing a goal of 549 runs within the remaining innings on Tuesday-Wednesday, the top got here in simply 64 overs with Ravindra Jadeja being the top-scorer with 54 runs as India managed to attain simply 140 runs.
The 408-run defeat towards South Africa at Guwahati edged forward of the 342-run defeat that India had suffered by the hands of Australia again in 2004 in Nagpur. On third spot is the defeat by 341 runs in 2006 to arch-rivals Pakistan in Karachi. Australia had additionally defeated India by 337 runs at Melbourne in 2007.
The Indians obtained a number of reprieves within the area on Day 5 with Sai Sudharsan being given a second life because of a no ball from Marco Jansen when he was batting on 4 and Kuldeep Yadav’s catch being dropped by Aiden Markram when he was batting on 4. However India couldn’t take advantage of these possibilities. Sudharsan stayed within the center for 139 balls for his 14 runs whereas Kuldeep’s stint ended on 5 runs.
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India had misplaced the primary Take a look at to South Africa by 30 runs on what was a minefield of a pitch at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. However the Guwahati strip was rather more steady.
Throughout the 4 innings over the 2 Exams, the Indian workforce managed to cross the 200-run mark simply as soon as, within the first innings at Guwahati.