Updated World Test Championship Points Table: India Jump To Top Spot With Win Over South Africa, Pakistan Slip To…

The Indian cricket workforce on Thursday capped off the tour to South Africa with a seven-wicket win within the second Test match and sqaured the sequence 1-1. It was a match that belonged to Indian pacers Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah, who picked 15 wickets amongst themselves. In the primary innings, Siraj picked 6 for 15 whereas Bumrah scalped two wickets. In the next innings of South Africa, Bumrah returned figures of 6 for 61 whereas Siraj additionally picked one wicket.

The victory improved India’s place within the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 factors desk whereas it noticed the Proteas slip from the highest spot. The Rohit Sharma-led aspect is now on the helm with 54.16 share factors whereas the Proteas slipped to the second spot with 50 share factors. This noticed Pakistan shedding the fifth spot and slip to the sixth place with 45.83 share factors.

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India beat South Africa by seven wickets to share the honours within the two-match sequence because the second Test ended inside 5 periods in Cape Town on Thursday.

Visiting India thus accomplished a outstanding comeback after shedding the primary Test in Centurion by an innings and 32 runs.

Fast bowler Bumrah completed with wonderful figures as India bowled South Africa out for 176 to set themselves a goal of 79, after Aiden Markram had struck a powerful, counterattacking 106 off 103 balls earlier than Lunch.

The hosts accomplished the chase within the second session with skipper Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer remaining not out on 17 and 4 respectively.

This is the shortest Test match ever when it comes to overs bowled, bettering the earlier greatest that concerned Australia and South Africa on the MCG means again in 1932.

A complete of 106.2 overs had been bowled within the match.

Earlier, India’s tempo spearhead Bumrah bowled superbly after the opening day’s play noticed a staggering 23 wickets fall on a really fast Newlands floor with inconsistent bounce.

India had collapsed to 153 all out of their first innings within the ultimate session of day one after skittling out South Africa for 55.

South Africa had been 62 for 3 in a single day, trailing by 36 runs.

Indian cricket workforce’s subsequent Test project can be a five-match sequence towards England, beginning January 25.

(With PTI Inputs)