India destroyed by Harmer, South Africa in second Test to lose series 2-0

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Six wickets by Simon Harmer successful Guwahati allowed South Africa to expanse their two-match Test bid with India.

Published On 26 Nov 2025

Spinner Simon Harmer took six wickets arsenic South Africa romped to triumph by 408 runs successful the 2nd Test for their archetypal bid triumph successful India successful 25 years connected Wednesday.

World Test champions South Africa bowled retired a dismal India for 140 successful a mammoth pursuit of 549 connected time 5 successful Guwahati for a 2-0 Test sweep.

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It is India’s biggest decision astatine location by runs and a 5th nonaccomplishment successful 7 location Tests, having been whitewashed 3-0 by New Zealand past year.

Off-spinner Harmer, 36, returned figures of 6-37 arsenic South Africa clinched a Test bid successful India for lone the 2nd time, the archetypal successful 2000 nether Hansie Cronje.

Ravindra Jadeja resisted with 54 earlier Keshav Maharaj had him stumped, and the spinner soon got the last wicket of Mohammed Siraj, with Marco Jansen pulling disconnected a stunning drawback successful the deep.

India mislaid the opening Test successful Kolkata wrong 3 connected a transportation with uneven bounce earlier South Africa erstwhile again bushed the hosts successful their ain crippled of rotation connected a batting-friendly track.

A immense task for India’s batsmen

The visitors declared their 2nd innings connected 260-5 connected time 4 to manus India a grounds chase, but the hosts’ batting erstwhile again failed and they ne'er threatened to get close.

India rode their luck aboriginal successful the time erstwhile Jansen had Sai Sudharsan caught down but the transportation was declared a no-ball aft the bowler overstepped. The batter was connected four.

In the adjacent over, different overnight batter, Kuldeep Yadav, survived a reprieve connected 4 erstwhile Aiden Markram dropped him astatine archetypal gaffe disconnected Harmer.

But the alleviation was short-lived for India arsenic a relentless Harmer soon bowled Kuldeep for 5 for the archetypal wicket of the day.

The off-spinner past dismissed Dhruv Jurel for two, 3 balls aboriginal and soon sent backmost skipper Rishabh Pant for 13 arsenic India slumped to 58-5.

The batters fell similar ninepins connected a transportation wherever South Africa posted 489 aft they elected to bat.

India were bundled retired for 201 to concede a first-innings pb of 288 but South Africa did not enforce the follow-on and decided to bat again.

Left-arm speedy Jansen returned figures of 6-48 successful India’s archetypal innings aft the bowler deed a quickfire 93 with the bat.

South African all-rounder Senuran Muthusamy led the batting complaint with 109, his maiden Test century.