‌SA vs IND | Twitter in frenzy after Boxing Day zeal turns out to be a timid capitulation for India

The overnight batters, Dean Elgar and Marco Jansen resumed the South African innings from where they left on Day 2. The pair respected the initial spell from Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah before playing their strokes flamboyantly. In no time,the veteran eked past the 150-run mark and consolidated a 111-run stand to take the ‘Green and Gold’ to a dominating position in the game. After 33 overs of steady batting from the duo, Elgar gave away his wicket in the fifth ball of the 95th over off a nothing delivery from Shardul Thakur. Subsequently, Gerald Coetzee fell at the stroke of Lunch with the scorecard reading 392/7 after 100 overs.

The Indian bowlers had to work their way out to make further inroads as the tail wagged along with Jansen for a while before ending their tally at 408. The all-rounder stayed unbridled on 84 after the fall of ninth wicket as Temba Bavuma was not medically cleared to come out and bat. Trailing by 163 runs at the start of the third innings, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to show spark as the Proteas bowlers removed them in a jiffy with Kagiso Rabada producing a seed to remove Rohit Sharma, drawing the first blood. After a brisk period of time, Shubman Gill followed them to the dressing room at the stroke of Tea, with India losing three for 62 runs in 16 overs. 

The final session of the day unexpectedly turned out to be the ultimate phase of play in this battle as the Indian batters failed to stand upright against the Proteas threat. Shreyas Iyer looked like a walking wicket, missing Marco Jansen’s fuller delivery at the stumps, followed by KL Rahul and Ravichandran Ashwin departing on back-to-back balls against debutante, Nandre Burger. Virat Kohli looked like the lone warrior for the visitors as wickets tumbled like ninepins from the other end. Despite an array of dropped chances in the innings, South Africa managed to fold their counterparts for a paltry 133, leading the two-match series with a victory by an innings and 32 runs.

He didn't hesitate!

Rabada owned selfless merchant Roshit 😭😭

— M. (@IconicKohIi)

 

Thats suicidal

— Virat Sharma (@ViratSharm39743) 

Bumrah is not happy

— Virat Sharma (@ViratSharm39743) 

Its an out

Bumrah runout !!



India 113/8 😭💔 

— Flash (@F1ash369) 

Cost a wicket

A suicidal runout costs Bumrah his wicket. Sunny G is pissed.

— Behram Qazi 🇵🇰 🇨🇦 (@DeafMango) 

Snameful performance

 Shameful performance by  Indian team in second innings ! No spine absolutely ! Just blatant Surender. Very Poor captaincy and selection by  and by coach and team management to select out of form inexperienced prasidha. Where was Umesh yadav?

— Ramchandran A (@RAnanthan) 

Fans are not happy

Poor Performance by India - No fight left, The agression is missing, Young Guns not delivering - We miss Virat at the helm - Kum se Kum khelte to chaude mein the  

— Tin Tin (@RAKYNITIN) 

Heartbroken

Disappointing performance by team India 💔💔  

— Raj Goswami (@rajrocks07) 

Strict action is needed

Some strict action has to be taken after this defeat. The defeat is a repeat of 1990s and 200s, the aftermath has to be different.

— Brij Bhushan Garg (@gargbrijb) 

Too much experiments

Dravid is Indian version of gregchappal too much of experiments and confusion not a fixed playing XI 

— ♚ €Μᵐ𝕒𝐧Ⓤέℓ ☯ (@radan9626) 

Unexpected bowling performance

Unexpected Performance it's really big disappointment south africa played really well in bowling department and batting as well 💯  

— Yash k_335 (@335Yash)