By the end of the third day’s play, South Africa had scored 26 runs in the second innings without losing any wicket. South Africa’s total lead has become 314 runs. The first innings of the Indian team was reduced to just 201 runs, due to which Africa got a huge lead of 288 runs in the first innings. Marco Yansen has created history by taking 6 wickets in the first innings.
The Indian team increased its score to 9/0 on the third day. KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal took the innings forward well, but as soon as Keshav Maharaj dismissed Rahul on the score of 22, the fall of wickets started.
Threat of clean sweep on India
South Africa had scored 489 runs in the first innings, in response to which Team India was reduced to just 201 runs. In-form batsman Dhruv Jurel was out without opening the account, while Sai Sudarshan once again failed at number-3. In this match, Rishabh Pant, who was captaining the Indian team, could not advance more than 7 runs. Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Reddy also went cheaply. Washington Sundar definitely impressed, who contributed 48 runs at a crucial juncture. Sundar came to bat at number 3 in the last match. As a result, Team India was all out for 201 runs.
South Africa got a lead of 288 runs in the first innings. Now by the end of the second day’s play, his total lead was 314 runs. The Indian team has already suffered a defeat of 30 runs in the Kolkata Test. Now the threat of defeat is looming over him in the Guwahati Test also.
Marco Yansen created history
Marco Jansen has become the third foreign player since 2000, who has come to India and taken more than 50 scores and five or more wickets in a Test match. While batting in the first innings, he scored 93 runs, while in bowling, he dismissed 6 Indian batsmen.

