NEW DELHI: India successfully chased down a modest target of 79 runs to secure a seven-wicket win against South Africa in the second Test at Newlands on Thursday. This victory, which concluded within five sessions, helped India level the two-match series 1-1.
With this win, India became the first team from Asia to register a victory at Newlands. Overall, this was India's fifth Test win on South African soil.
Needing 79 to win, Shreyas Iyer stood tall and smashed Marco Jansen over mid-on for a boundary to seal the game for India.
After the win,
Virat Kohli
, who was excitedly waiting in the dressing room, hugged head coach
Rahul Dravid
.
Young batsmen
Shubman Gill
and
Yashasvi Jaiswal
were also seen exulting after India's Cape Town triumph.
BCCI's social media handle on Friday posted a video capturing India's historic win on South African soil.
"Starting the New Year with a historic Test win at Newlands," BCCI's X handle (formerly Twitter) wrote while posting the video.
WATCH:
India ended their second innings on 80 for three as they launched an assault to try and negate a difficult wicket that was still helping the bowlers.
Only 642 legitimate deliveries were bowled across four-plus sessions. The previous shortest Test — 656 balls— was in 1932 at Melbourne between Australia and South Africa.
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