South Africa beat India by 408 runs in the second Test and whitewashed them in the series. Chasing an impossible target of 549 runs on the final day in Guwahati on Wednesday, hosts India were bowled out for just 140 runs in the second innings. Which is India's biggest loss in terms of runs in Test history.
Through this, the Proteas have won the series in India after 25 years. They achieved this feat for the first time in 2000 under Hansi Cronje.
In the second innings, offspinner Simon Harmer alone took 6 wickets for 37 runs. Another star Marco Jansen played a stormy innings of 93 runs with the bat after taking 6 wickets for 48 runs in the first innings. He is also the man of the match.
India lost the first Test in three days in Kolkata. This time Rishabh Panthers were defeated by the spin magic of the Proteas even on a relatively good batting support wicket.
Ravindra Jadeja tried to fight for 54 runs in the second innings. But it wasn't long before Keshav Maharaj stumped him for India's last wicket. Mohammad Siraj was dismissed by Maharaj.
South Africa set India a record target by declaring the second innings at 260 for 5 on the fourth day. But batters continue to fail. India's batting collapsed due to Harmer's continuous hitting after going into the last day with 27 runs for 2 wickets. He took the first wicket of the day by bowling Kuldeep Yadav (5). Three balls later he picked up the wickets of Dhruv Jurel (2), then Rishabh Pant (13) to reduce the hosts' score to 58 for 5.
But South Africa scored 489 runs on this wicket first. There, on the same pitch, India's batting collapsed slowly. Proteas got a lead of 288 runs in the first innings as the hosts were bowled out for 201 runs. The visitors batted again without the hosts following on.
