The Indian cricket team found themselves caught at the receiving end of a thrashing as South Africa steamrolled them at Centurion without an inkling of hesitation, flexing their fast-bowling muscles against the troubled visitors. But then when the players take the yard for every single game, history gets confined to the books, enabling a new dawn.
The Indian men’s cricket team will be in action for the first time in the new year of 2024 as South Africa await them in Cape Town, all ready to unleash hell upon the proven warriors in the whites. Both the sides have bones to pick after a chequered rivalry over the years which has just extended to another chapter after India were left reeling in agony in the first Test.
For the visitors, it all went wrong in the curtain-raiser of the series after a failed batting display in the first innings followed by a poor bowling showdown that sent them crashing face-first to the mat. South Africa rode high on some impeccable fast-bowling…