Team India’s losing streak in Test cricket is not ending. After Kolkata, South Africa defeated Team India in Guwahati also. The visiting team won the second Test played in Guwahati by a huge margin of 408 runs. With this, South Africa won the series 2-0. After 25 years, the South African team has won the Test series in India. In terms of runs, this is India’s biggest defeat in Test cricket.

South Africa wins test series in India after 25 years

South Africa last won a Test series in India in 2000 under the captaincy of Hansie Cronje. At that time too, under the captaincy of Hansie Cronje, South Africa had won the two-match Test series 2-0. Now after 25 years, Temba Bavuma has repeated the same feat. The victory of 408 runs is South Africa’s second biggest victory in Test cricket.

In the Guwahati Test, South Africa had set a target of 549 runs for India in the fourth innings, in response to which Team India was all out for 140 runs. Spinner Simon Harmer took 6 wickets. Marco Jansen, who performed brilliantly with bat and ball, got the title of Player of the Match. Simon Harmer became the player of the series.

India has got a clean sweep in the Test series at home for the second consecutive time. Earlier, New Zealand had clean swept Team India in the three-match Test series. Now South Africa has given a clean sweep in the two-match test series. After almost 40 years, India has got a clean sweep in two consecutive Test series at home.

India got a clean sweep at home for the third time

0-2 vs South Africa, 2000
0-3 vs New Zealand, 2024
0-2 vs South Africa, 2025

India’s biggest defeat in Test cricket (by margin of runs)

408 runs vs South Africa, Guwahati, 2025
342 runs vs Australia, Nagpur, 2004
341 runs vs Pakistan, Karachi, 2006
337 runs vs Australia, Melbourne, 2007
333 runs vs Australia, Pune, 2017
329 runs vs South Africa, Kolkata, 1996

South Africa’s last three test series in Asia

2-0 win against Bangladesh, 2024
1-1 draw against Pakistan, 2025
2-0 win against India, 2025

South Africa defeated India by a huge margin of 408 runs in the second test played in Guwahati. Chasing the target of 549 runs, India’s second innings ended on 140 runs. This Test saw a shameful performance by the Indian batsmen, only Yashasvi Jaiswal could score a half-century in the first innings and only Ravindra Jadeja could score a half-century in the second innings. Even in the first innings, Team India was all out for 201 runs. Temba Bavuma maintained his record of never losing a Test as captain in this series as well. South Africa won the 2-match test series 2-0.

5th defeat in last 7 matches, Team India slipped in WTC points table

India has lost 5 out of the last 7 Tests played at home. Last year, in the same month, Team India lost the Test series 3-0 at home to New Zealand. Before Guwahati, Team India had also had a shameful performance in Kolkata, where the pitch was blamed but here the batsmen of the visiting team had performed brilliantly. Still, no Indian batsman played on this pitch. Senuran Muthusamy had scored a century (109) in the first innings, while bowler Marco Jansen had also scored a lot of runs (93) on the Indian bowlers, but he missed his century.

After losing the Test series 0-2 to South Africa, India has reached 5th position in the World Test Championship 2025-2027 points table.

South Africa had scored 489 runs in the first innings

Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bat first. Aiden Markram (38) and Ryan Rickelton (35) gave a good start to the team by making a partnership of 82 runs for the first wicket. Tristan Stubbs (49) and Temba Bavuma (41) made a partnership of 84 runs for the third wicket. Indian bowlers were ineffective in the first innings, this can be gauged from the fact that lower order batsman Marco Jansen also played a quick inning of 93 runs, with the help of which South Africa reached a total of 489.

Senuran Muthusamy scored the most runs for South Africa in the first innings, he scored 109 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 10 fours. This is his first test century. Marco Jansen created history by hitting 7 sixes in his explosive innings of 93 runs. He became the batsman to hit the joint-highest number of sixes in a Test innings against India.

Kuldeep Yadav took maximum 4 wickets in the first innings for India, but his economy was 3.94. He spent 115 runs. Bumrah and Siraj had 2-2 wickets in their name, they also failed to control the runs.

India’s first innings was reduced to 201 runs

Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul gave a good start to India in the first innings, both of them made a partnership of 65 runs for the first wicket. However, India’s middle order was a complete flop. Rahul (22) was dismissed by Keshav Maharaj, after which Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his half-century. He also became the victim of Simon Harmer after scoring 58 runs. This was India’s second wicket at 95, after this India’s 7th wicket fell at the score of 122. That means 6 wickets fell within 27 runs.

Sai Sudarshan (15), Dhruv Jurel (0), Rishabh Pant (7), Ravindra Jadeja (6), Nitish Kumar Reddy (10) were out cheaply. Marco Yansen took 6 wickets in this innings. The partnership between Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav somehow took India beyond 200. Sundar scored 48 runs, while Kuldeep scored only 19 runs but he faced 134 balls.

Team India’s second innings ended at 140.

South Africa had taken a lead of 288 runs in the first innings. The visiting team declared the second innings at 260/5 and set a target of 549 for India to win. Tristan Stubbs scored 93 runs in the second innings, but he missed his century. With his wicket, Bavuma had declared the innings.

The flop show of Indian batsmen continued in the second innings also. Yashasvi Jaiswal (13), KL Rahul (6) could not get a good start, Jaiswal was dismissed by Yansen and KL Rahul was made his victim by Harmer.

Today, on the last day of the Test, the third wicket of India’s innings fell in the form of Kuldeep Roop. After this, Dhruv Jurel (2) and Rishabh Pant (13) also got out cheaply. Sudarshan also left after scoring 14 runs. Ravindra Jadeja struggled to some extent, but it was not enough. Jadeja scored 54 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours. India’s second innings was reduced to 140 runs. South Africa won this match by a huge margin of 408 runs.

In this innings, Simon Harmer took the maximum of 6 wickets, this was the second five wicket haul of his Test career. Keshav Maharaj took 2 wickets. Marco Jansen and Senuran Muthusamy took 1-1 wicket.

The Guwahati Test is completely in the grip of South Africa. After gaining a lead of 288 runs in the first innings, South Africa declared its second innings at 260 runs. India now has a lofty target of 549 runs to draw the series. Tristan Stubbs scored the highest score of 94 runs for South Africa.

South Africa declared its innings at 260 runs for 5 wickets in the final session on the fourth day of the second Test being played in Guwahati. The visiting team had achieved a huge lead of 288 runs in the first innings. In such a situation, Team India got the target of 549 runs. Even if the Indian team draws this test match, the series will remain in the name of South Africa.

South Africa had scored 489 runs in its first innings, in response to which India was able to score only 201 runs. In this way, South Africa had gained a lead of 288 runs in the first innings and now by scoring 260 runs, it has given the target of 549 runs to Team India.

Tristan Stubbs missed a century

Tristan Stubbs was out after scoring 94 runs in 190 balls with the help of 9 fours and one six. As soon as he was out, South African captain Temba Bavuma declared the innings. India’s only success in the second session was in the form of Tony DiGeorge, who was out after scoring 49 runs. For India, Ravindra Jadeja took three wickets and Washington Sundar took one wicket.

South Africa’s main objective during the first two sessions was to ensure that India could not achieve the target in the fourth innings. Indian spinners were getting turn in the first session, but Georgi and Stubbs troubled the spinners by making a partnership of 101 runs in the second session. Stubbs and Georgie hit many sweep shots against the Indian spinners. Jadeja did not allow Georgi to complete his half-century by giving him out LBW.

Batting will not be easy in the fourth innings

After a certain time, it seemed from the expressions of the Indian fielders that they were waiting for the second session to end, after which the innings was expected to be declared. The way Jadeja and Washington are getting turn can be a matter of concern for the Indian batsmen. The pitch is now cracking and is likely to crack further as the game progresses, making it difficult for India to bat in the fourth innings.

For South Africa, openers Ryan Rickleton (35 runs on 64 balls) and Aiden Markram (29 runs on 84 balls) once again made a half-century partnership, but Jadeja dismissed both of them. Washington then dismissed captain Temba Bavuma (03), whose bouncing ball kissed the batsman’s gloves and went into the safe hands of Nitish Kumar Reddy standing in the leg slip. Whereas Viaan Mulder returned unbeaten after scoring 35 runs in 69 balls with the help of five fours.