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India: Cricket Team Defeats South Africa by 124 Runs in 3rd Test to Win Series, 2-0

India: Cricket Team Defeats South Africa by 124 Runs in 3rd Test to Win Series, 2-0:

3rd Test: India end South Africa’s unbeaten 9-year international run with 124-run triumph, seal chain 2-0
The 124-run loss in the 3rd Test is the first international series loss in 9 years of South Africa.

Nagpur: This was additionally the first Test series triumph as a captain on home land and additionally indicated an end to South Africa’s track record of not losing a Test series away from home for nine long years of Virat Kohli.

Ashwin’s second innings casualties comprised three left- handers the opening pair of Stiaan van Zyl Dean Elgar and Jean-Paul Duminy apart from the prize wicket of AB de Villiers, the visitors’ most successful batsman on this particular visit.

He took the last wicket, through the gate in his closing disastrous bout of 4 for 16 in 19 balls by clean bowling last guy Morne Morkel.

India: Cricket Team Defeats South Africa by 124 Runs in 3rd Test to Win Series, 2-0
India: Cricket Team Defeats South Africa by 124 Runs in 3rd Test to Win Series, 2-0

Mishra packed off du Plessis shortly after before Ashwin polished off the tail together with the second new ball in a disastrous bout as well as got rid of Amla to stop the partnership.

The teams will play with the final Test that is inconsequential at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi from December 3, with India winning at the match and Nagpur and Mohali in Bengaluru being washed out.

The loss ended South Africa’s enviable nine-year away record with no series defeat. They’d lost to Sri Lanka 0 – 2 in 2006 and then were undefeated in 14 rubbers since then till the current reversal against India.

The visitors stared a job that was demanding going into the third day on a turning track, beginning the day at 32 for 2, needing to score 278 more runs.

The single time they revealed some gumption was when the home strike was defied by Amla and du Plessis following the rest till the ending of the first hour from the very first hour of the pre-lunch session.

But when he got rid of Amla, once it was broken by Mishra, it was a question of time for India to success to race.

Mishra’s twin strikes in six balls in consecutive overs in the 2nd hour after lunch to send back both competing captain Hashim Amla (39) and Faf du Plessis (39) and bring the home team nearer to success following the fifth wicket pair stonewalled for seven minutes under three hours in adding 72 runs.

Amla, who’d scored 253 at this earth for a winning cause five years past but has been woefully out of shape on this particular tour, had kept the Indians at bay for 219 minutes and hit on only 2 fours in his 167-ball knock.

Du Plessis, who showed admirable patience till his skipper s departure, lost it five balls later when he played with an illadvised clean bowled him and pull shot.

These two sending-off have reduced whatever expects the visitors had of achieving the faraway goal and keep the series alive on a pitch that helped twist but appeared to have lost some venom of the initial two days.

The couple, in the procedure, created the longest partnership of the series overtaking Cheteshwar Pujara in the series opener and the one between Murali Vijay at Mohali.