India have beaten South Africa by seven wickets to earn the quickest victory in the history of Test cricket inside two days at Newlands.
India, who’d been inspired on Thursday by Jasprit Bumrah’s brilliant six-wicket haul, then chased down a modest victory target of 79 to claim the second Test and share the series at 1-1 as the extraordinary contest finished inside five sessions.
Only Aiden Markram, with a stunning century, showed real defiance for South Africa but India quickly ended their second innings on 3-80 in the post-lunch session as they launched an assault to try and negate a difficult wicket that was still helping the bowlers.
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Rohit Sharma finished not out on 16 and Shreyas Iyer on four, with Yashasvi Jaiswal (28), Shubman Gill (10) and Virat Kohli (12) being the wickets to fall.
There will be plenty of scrutiny of the Newlands pitch with the match completed in 642 balls, the shortest-ever completed…
