Former South African cricketer Jacques Kallis, one of the most legendary all-rounders in international cricket, has given a big statement about his country’s young all-rounder Marco Jansen. This statement of Kallis has come just before the second ODI between India and South Africa. Kallis said that the improvement Yansen has made in his batting in recent months will help him find a place among the top all-rounders in modern cricket.

Let us tell you that in the first ODI played in Ranchi, Marco Yansen had performed brilliantly with both ball and bat. After taking 2 wickets in bowling, Yansen scored 70 runs in 39 balls in batting. Earlier, in the Guwahati Test against India, Yansen had given a match-winning performance with both bat and ball.

“He’s had a great year, hasn’t he? He’s always had the potential. He just needs to understand his game. He’s obviously got it now and is finding a good balance. Yansen’s bowling has always been fantastic. In the last few years he hasn’t made the most of his talent with the bat, but he’s definitely improved on that now. He’s a great all-rounder now. I think,” Jacques Kallis said during an exclusive interaction with Indian media organized by SA20 on Tuesday. He will play a big role in SA20.”

Apart from making excellent contributions with the bat, Yansen also took 12 wickets in two Test matches against India. South Africa won this series 2-0. Kallis expects good performance from SA20 Yansen. He said, “His team (Sunrisers Eastern Cape) can use him in different roles. He is effective in the lower order but considering his batting, the team can use him anywhere. He will prove to be an excellent all-rounder.”

Kallis, who scored 13289 runs at an average of 55.37 with 45 centuries in 166 Test matches for South Africa, also expects all-round performance from Corbin Bosch. Bosch showed a glimpse of his skills by playing an innings of 67 runs and taking two wickets against India in Ranchi ODI.

Indian cricket team is leading 1-0 in the 3-match ODI series against South Africa. Under the captaincy of KL Rahul, Team India would like to win the second ODI and clinch the series. Of course, Team India won the first match, but despite a big target and a bad start, the South African players took it till the last over. It was not confirmed till the end which team would win this match. Let us know which 4 players of the visiting team can prove to be dangerous in the second ODI.

1. Matthew Britzke

In the first ODI, the top-3 batsmen including the South African captain were out on the score of just 11 runs. Then Matthew Britzke had batted brilliantly, from here there was hope for the visiting team that they can also win the match. Britzke looked in great form, he scored 72 runs in 80 balls with the help of 1 six and 8 fours.

27-year-old Matthew Britzke has played 10 One Day International matches, in which he has scored 614 runs at a strike rate of 95.48. He scores runs at a fast pace, his highest score in ODI is 150 runs. He can prove dangerous in Raipur also.

2. Tony DeGeorge

Tony De Georgi is also in good form, he scored 39 runs in 35 balls in the first ODI. He also batted well in the Test against India, before that South Africa went on Pakistan tour where Georgie played a brilliant inning of 76 runs in the second ODI. He also scored a century in the test against Pakistan.

Looking at Tony De Georgi’s recent form, it seems that he is not facing any problem on Asian pitches, hence Indian bowlers will have to make a special strategy to dismiss him in the second ODI. 28-year-old Tony De Georgi has scored 688 runs in 21 ODI matches, his strike rate is 97.72. He also makes important contribution in fielding.

3. Marco Yansen

India vs South Africa, if we look at the last two matches, Marco Jansen looks like a proper batsman. He played a brilliant inning of 93 runs in the second test against India and also took 7 wickets. For this he was chosen Player of the Match. He performed similarly in the first ODI on Sunday.

Yansen scored runs at a strike rate of 179.49 in the first ODI, he scored 70 runs in 39 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 8 fours. Due to his performance, South Africa’s batting has started looking very strong even in the lower order. The tall Yansen will also trouble the Indian batsmen with his bowling. He can prove dangerous in the second ODI also.

4. Corbin Bosch

All-rounder Corbin Bosch came yesterday after Marco Jansen was out, which means 6 wickets had fallen and there was pressure on the visiting team. Although Yansen and Britzke had increased the pace of runs, still 123 more runs were needed to win. Then Corbyn increased the heartbeat of all the Indian fans by playing a half-century inning.

Corbin Bosch scored 67 runs in 51 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 5 fours, due to which South Africa was in the match till the last over. Although he was caught out in the last over, his game was praised by everyone. He also played a good inning of 41 runs in the first ODI on Pakistan tour. He took a total of 4 wickets in the 3 ODI series against Pakistan.

India vs South Africa: These four players can prove to be dangerous for Team India in the second ODI.

When and where will India vs South Africa 2nd ODI be played?

The second ODI between India and South Africa will be held on Wednesday, December 3 at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur. The match will start at 1:30 pm. The toss will take place at 1 pm.

Where to watch India vs South Africa 2nd ODI?

The second ODI between India and South Africa will be telecast live on Star Sports channel. There will be live streaming on JioHotstar app and website. match

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.

India vs South Africa 2nd Test is being played at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati. Today is Wednesday, the fifth day of the test. The second innings of the Indian cricket team is going on. Team India has got the target of 549 runs to win.

what happened in the game so far

South African captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bat first. The visiting team made a huge score of 489 runs in the first innings. Senuran Muthusamy scored his first Test century (109) in the first innings, while bowler Marco Jansen played an explosive inning of 93 runs. In this innings, he created history by hitting 7 sixes; he became the batsman to hit the joint highest number of sixes in a Test innings against India.

On the pitch where South African batsmen scored a lot of runs, Indian batsmen proved to be a flop. Team India was all out for 201 runs in the first innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal gave a good start by playing an inning of 58 runs, but Marco Jansen scattered India’s middle order. Sai Sudarshan (15), Dhruv Jurel (0), Rishabh Pant (7), Ravindra Jadeja (6) were out cheaply. Washington Sundar scored 48 runs and helped India cross 200. Marco Yansen took 6 wickets in the first innings.

South Africa declared its second innings at 260 runs, in this innings Tristan Stubbs scored 94 runs, he missed his century and as soon as he was out, Temba Bavuma declared the innings declared. Tony De Jorji scored 49 runs. India got the target of 549 runs to win.

India’s playing 11

Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Dhruv Jurel, Rishabh Pant (captain, wicketkeeper), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

of South Africaplaying 11

Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Wiaan Mulder, Tony De Jorzi, Temba Bavuma (c), Tristan Stubbs, Kyle Verrey (wk), Marco Janson, Senuran Muthusamy, Simon Harmer, Keshav Maharaj.

In the second test, South Africa has given India a target of 549 runs. In response, by the end of the fourth day’s play, Team India had lost two wickets for 27 runs. The Indian team is still behind by 522 runs. Right now Sai Sudarshan and Kuldeep Yadav are standing at the batting crease. In the fourth day’s play, South Africa had declared its second innings at 260 runs, due to which, based on the lead in the first innings, it gave India a target of 549 runs. The Indian team is on the verge of a big defeat.

South Africa started the fourth day’s play at 26/0. Ryan Rickleton was out after scoring 35 runs and Aiden Markram was out after scoring 29 runs. Tristan Stubbs was the biggest hit for Team India, who scored 94 runs. Tony de Jorji missed his fifty, who was dismissed by Ravindra Jadeja on the score of 49. Ravindra Jadeja took 4 wickets for India in the second innings.

Team India on the verge of shameful defeat

Chasing the target of 549 runs, the Indian team has lost 2 wickets and scored only 35 runs by the end of the fourth day’s play. Let us tell you that the biggest win by runs in Test against India is in the name of Australia, which defeated Team India by 342 runs in the year 2024. In this matter, South Africa can overtake Australia and come out ahead. That means South Africa can become the team to defeat India by the most runs.

India’s batting-bowling sub flop

In the Guwahati Test, the Indian team has been able to do well neither in batting nor in bowling. In the first innings, Indian bowlers had dismissed 6 South African batsmen for 246 runs. But after that the last 4 wickets of the African team scored 243 runs. As a result, South Africa’s first innings ended at 489 runs.

Chasing such a huge score, the first innings of the Indian team was reduced to 201 runs. The result was that South Africa gained a lead of 288 runs. The Indian bowlers had to ensure that South Africa bowled out the second innings cheaply, but they declared the second innings as per their wish by scoring 260 runs. Now, despite chasing the target of 549 runs, Team India has lost 2 wickets at the score of only 27.

South African fast bowler Marco Yansen created history by taking 6 wickets against India on Monday. Earlier, on the second day of the Test, he had played an explosive inning of 93 runs, in which he hit 7 sixes. The visiting team has strengthened its hold in the second Test being played in Guwahati. The danger of match and series defeat has increased for Rishabh Pant and team.

KL Rahul (22) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (58) gave a good start to India, both of them made a partnership of 65 runs for the first wicket. After this, Jaiswal completed his half-century, but after Jaiswal was out, the entire team disintegrated. Keshav Maharaj took the first wicket and then Harmer took the second and third wicket in the form of Jaiswal and Sudarshan. After this, Marco Jansen destroyed the middle order of Team India by taking 4 consecutive wickets.

Marco Yansen took 6 wickets

Marco Jansen took the first wicket in the form of Dhruv Jurel (0). After this, he also sent Rishabh Pant (7), Nitish Kumar Reddy (10) and Ravindra Jadeja (6) to the pavilion cheaply. Yansen completes his ‘fifer’ as Kuldeep Yadav. However, Kuldeep faced 134 balls, in which he scored 19 runs. By dismissing Jasprit Bumrah, Yansen completed his 6 wickets in the innings.

Marco Yansen became the third bowler in the world to do so

Marco Jansen is the third player since 2000, who has scored more than 50 runs in a Test after coming to India. Yansen played an explosive inning of 93 runs in just 91 balls in the first innings. In this innings he hit 7 sixes and 9 fours.

He has also become the batsman who has jointly hit the most number of sixes in a Test innings against India. On Sunday, he equaled the record of Shahid Afridi, who had hit 7 sixes in an innings in 2006.

Team India in trouble

Team India is already 0-1 behind in the series after losing the Kolkata Test. By the end of play on the third day of the second Test, South Africa had scored 26 runs in the second innings without losing any wicket. Team India’s first innings was reduced to 201 runs. South Africa is still ahead by 314 runs.

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.

Team India is in danger of defeat in the Guwahati Test. In response to South Africa’s 489 runs, the Indian team could score only 201 runs in its first innings. However, South Africa did not give follow-on to India. The visiting team has got a huge lead of 288 runs in the first innings.

Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the highest score of 58 runs for India. Whereas Washington Sundar played an inning of 48 runs. Apart from this, all the batsmen were flops. For South Africa, fast bowler Marco Yansen took the maximum of 6 wickets. Whereas spinner Simon Harmer got 3 wickets and Keshav Maharaj got one wicket.

Yashasvi Jaiswal (58 runs in 97 balls) scored a half-century full of strokes, but a ball from Simon Harmer suddenly bounced, on which he made a mistake and was caught by Yansen. KL Rahul (22) was the first batsman to be out. He too was batting well during the 65-run partnership with Jaiswal, but it was two balls from Keshav Maharaj and Harmer that completely changed the course of the morning session.

There were not many flaws in the pitch and Jaiswal’s attractive stroke-play confirmed this. He repeatedly swept Harmer’s ball in length and also hit a six over cow corner off Maharaj’s ball. Even Rahul was scoring runs with ease at the other end, but a ball turning from Maharaj took the outside edge of his bat and went into the hands of Aiden Markram at first slip.

Sai Sudarshan (15)’s weakness of going on the backfoot against the spinners and failing in the process was once again exposed. As it happened against West Indies in Ahmedabad. Once again he went on the back foot to pull the ball from Harmer, but could not make the shot properly and Ryan Rickleton took the catch by diving at midwicket.

Dhruv Jurel (00) did not need to pull on Yanson’s ball just before tea. The ball did not come at the expected speed and the wrongly timed pull was converted into a catch by Maharaj.

The dismissal of captain Rishabh Pant (07) was the most disappointing, because he adopted an aggressive attitude when the team was in trouble. He was caught by the wicketkeeper while attempting an unnecessary shot on Yansen’s rising ball. After this, Yansen also showed the way to the pavilion to both all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja (06) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (10) with his short pitch balls.

In the Guwahati Test, South Africa has scored 489 runs in the first innings. Thanks to Senuran Muthuswamy’s century and Marco Jansen’s half-century, Africa was able to reach a huge score. Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammad Siraj gave away more than 100 runs in bowling for India. At one time even 400 runs seemed difficult for the South African team, but thanks to the strong innings of Muthuswamy and Jansen, they scored 489 runs.

Last 4 wickets made 243

The Indian team made a strong comeback in the third session on the first day and took 6 wickets of South Africa at the score of 246. But on the second day, Senuran Muthuswamai and Kyle Verein together made the Indian bowlers sweat with a partnership of 88 runs. Verein scored 45 runs, Muthuswamy then made a partnership of 97 runs with Marco Jansen. Within no time the South African team also crossed the score of 450. The last 4 wickets added 243 runs to the South African scoreboard.

Kuldeep-Siraj’s century

Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammad Siraj gave away more than 100 runs in bowling for India. Siraj took 2 wickets for 106 runs in 30 overs, on the other hand, Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets for 115 runs in 29.1 overs. Except Jasprit Bumrah and Washington Sundar, no Indian bowler had an economy rate less than 3. For Team India, Kuldeep took 4 wickets, Bumrah, Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets each.

Jasprit Bumrah, who is usually in the news due to his workload management, bowled the most overs in the Indian innings. Bumrah bowled 32 overs, gave only 75 runs and also took 2 wickets. His 10 overs were maidens in this innings. Whereas Mohammad Siraj also took 2 wickets while bowling 30 overs. South Africa bowled 151.1 overs in this innings.

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