For the primary time in 23 years, India have drawn a Test sequence in South Africa. It occurred in a dramatic scenario because the Indian cricket staff received the second Test of the two-match sequence in lower than 5 periods. Only 107 overs have been performed because it turned the shortest ever match within the format’s historical past. Right from Day 1 dramatic scenes began unravelling in Cape Town as 23 wickets fell. First South Africa acquired dismissed for 55, then India have been bowled out for 153. After South Africa rating 176 within the second innings, the match ended within the second session of the second day with India supassing the 79-run goal with seven wickets to spare.

Industralist Anand Mahindra had an attention-grabbing tackle the sport. “Don’t think I can watch any more of the #SAvsIND match. Can’t handle the G-force being generated at this speed of play…,” Anand Mahindra wrote in a submit on X.

Don’t assume I can watch any extra of the #SAvsIND match.
Can’t deal with the G-force being generated at this pace of play… pic.twitter.com/c00OvORfEU

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) January 4, 2024

Talking concerning the Day 2 motion of the second Test, Jasprit Bumrah, India’s priceless quick bowling imply machine, produced a hostile spell to information India to a series-levelling seven-wicket victory in opposition to South Africa within the shortest recreation ever performed in Test historical past.

Bumrah (6/61 in 13.5 overs), the grasp practitioner of quick bowling, knocked the stuffing out of South Africa’s middle-order in a menacing morning spell although Aiden Markram (106 off 103 balls) fought like a lone ranger on a burning deck to take South Africa to 176 in 36.5 overs at stroke of lunch on day two.

A goal of 79 even on the hardest of tracks wasn’t precisely a tall order and younger Yashasvi Jaiswal (28) threw his bat round earlier than skipper Rohit Sharma (16 not out) accomplished the formalities within the firm of Shreyas Iyer (4 not out off 6) in simply 12 overs.

This was India’s first victory at Newlands in seven makes an attempt and one that may be remembered for the hostility exhibited by two Indian quick bowlers – Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, who produced a career-best six-wicket haul to bowl out South Africa for 55 within the first innings.

The series-levelling win gave Rohit the bragging rights of being solely the second skipper after Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2010-11) to attract a sequence within the ‘Rainbow Nation’.

With PTI inputs