By Admin 
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.