India completed a clean sweep in the three Test series against South
Africa, winning the third and final Test in Ranchi on Tuesday October
22,2019 by an innings and 202 runs.
The
Proteas started the day on 132/8
Debutant spinner Shahbaz Nadeem
took the last two wickets on successive balls in just the second over of
the fourth day to dismiss the Proteas for 133 while following on.
India needed only 12 balls on Day 4 to complete the formalities in Ranchi and
inflict a 3-0 whitewash on a hapless South African side.
Umesh
Yadav and Mohammed Shami finished with 10 wickets between them in the
match. Shami picked 13 wickets in the series while Umesh picked 11
| Shahbaz Nadeem removed Theunis de Bruyn and Lungi Ngidi with the final
two balls of the second over to finish with four wickets on his debut- 2/22(11.2 Overs ) and 2/18(6 overs) |
It was a series to forget for South
Africa, who ended up on the wrong end of a 3-0 series whitewash for the
first time in over a decade.
The innings loss in this match is
also their joint-third highest margin of defeat in this manner. This
series was also the first time since the 1935-36 season that South
Africa lost two Tests in a series by an innings.
Third instance of South Africa getting whitewashed since re-admission in a series of 3+ Tests:
0-3 vs Aus in Aus 2001/02
0-3 vs Aus in SA 2005/06
0-3 vs Ind in Ind 2019/20
Biggest innings defeats for SA:
Innings & 360 runs v Aus Joburg 2001/02
Innings & 259 runs v Aus Port Elizabeth 1949/50
Innings & 202 runs v Eng Cape Town 1888/89
Innings & 202 runs v Ind Ranchi 2019/20 *
3-Match Test Series Result
First Test @ Vizag Oct 02 - 06,2019
Scorecard
India 502/ 7 Declared and 323/4 Declared
Mayank Agarwal 215(371 Balls 4x23 and 6x6)
Rohit Sharma 176(244 Balls 4x23 and 6x6)
Rohit Sharma 127(149 Balls 4x10 and 6x7)
Cheteshwar Pujara 81(148 Balls 4x13 and 6x2)
Ravindra Jadeja 40(32 Balls 6x3)
South Africa 431 and 191
Match Result - India won by 2013 Runs
MOM - Rohit Sharma for his 176 and 127 Runs
Series Result -India lead the 3-Match Test Series 1-0
Second Test @Pune Oct 10 -13,2019
Scorecard
India 601/5 Declared
Mayank Agarwal 108(195 Balls 4x19 and 6x2)
Virat Kohli 254*(336 Balls 4x33 and 6x2)
South Africa 275 and 189
Match Result - India won by an innings and 137 Runs
MOM - Virat Kohli for his 254*(336 Balls 4x33 and 6x2)
Third Test @ Ranchi Oct 19 -22,2019
Scorecard
India 497/9 Declared
Rohit Sharma 212(255 Balls 4x28 and 6x6)
Ajinkya Rahane 115(192 Balls 4x17 and 6x1)
Ravindra Jadeja 51(119 Balls 4x4)
Umesh Yadav 31(10 Balls 6x5)
South Africa 162 and 133
Match Result - India won by an innings and 202 Runs
MOM - Rohit Sharma for his212(255 Balls 4x28 and 6x6)
Series Result - India won the 3-Match Test Series 3-0
Player of the series Rohit Sharmafor scoring 529 runs from just 4 innings
6 records Rohit Sharma broke in the Test series
1)Following his maiden double ton at Ranchi, Rohit became the batsman with
the highest Test average at home, overtaking Don Bradman. After his
212-run knock which featured 28 fours and six sixes, Rohit’s average at
home rose to 99.84. Bradman, on the other hand, averaged 98.22 in home
Tests
2)When Rohit hit Dane Piedt for the third six of his innings at Ranchi
during the course of his double hundred, he overtook England all-rounder
Ben Stokes (15) to become the batsman with highest number of sixes in
2019
3) With the six against Piedt, Rohit also broke the world record for the
highest number of sixes by a batsman in a bilateral Test series. Rohit
bettered Shimron Hetmyer's tally of 15 sixes (against Bangladesh in
2018-19)
4)During the Visakhapatnam game, Rohit broke twin records - most sixes in a
Test match and most sixes by an Indian in a Test match. He hit 13 sixes
to break Wasim Akram’s record of 12 which was set during his unbeaten 257 against Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura in October 1996
When Rohit slammed his ninth six of the Test, he went past Navjot Singh
Sidhu’s record for most sixes by an Indian in a Test match. In 1994,
Sidhu hit eight sixes in the Lucknow Test against Sri Lanka
5)With his twin hundreds at Visakhapatnam, Rohit became the first batsman
in history to score a hundred in both innings of their maiden Test as an
opener. Rohit made 176 in the first innings of the first Test, and
followed it up with 127 in the second
6)During the course of his twin centuries at Visakhapatnam, Rohit
also surpassed Kepler Wessels to become the batsman with the most runs
while opening for the first time in Test cricket.Kepler Wessels compiled
208 runs for Australia against England in 1982-83 while Rohit made 303
runs in the first Test against South Africa
Records broken during India's 3-0 Test series win over South Africa
# Indian opener Rohit Sharma became the first player from the country
to score a century in all three formats of the game as an opener when
he smashed an unbeaten knock of 176 during the first Test against South
Africa at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam.
# With this, Sharma also became the fourth batsman from the country
after Shikhar Dhawan (187 vs Australia in Mohali, 2013), KL Rahul (110
vs Australia, Sydney, 2015) and Prithvi Shaw (134 v West Indies, Rajkot,
2018) to score a century while opening the innings for the very first
time in Tests.
# By scoring a ton, the right-handed batsman also became the seventh
cricketer in the world to hit a hundred as an opener in each format of
the game after West Indies' Chris Gayle, New Zealand's Brendon McCullum,
New Zealand's Martin Guptill, Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan,
Pakistan's Ahmed Shehzad, Australia's Shane Watson and Bangladesh's
Tamim Iqbal.
# En route to his blistering 176-run knock, Rohit also became the
second Indian batsman after former Indian skipper Rahul Dravid to notch
up six straight fifty-plus scores on home soil. He had earlier smashed
three half-centuries against Sri Lanka and two against New Zealand at
home in 2017.
# Rohit followed his century in the first innings of the opening Test
with a brilliant127-run knock in the second innings to become the first
batsman to score hundred in both innings of his debut match as an
opener in Test cricket.
# During the series, the Indian opener also equaled legendary Test
batsman Sunil Gavaskar's record of scoring three or more tons as opener
in a Test series when he smashed a 212-run knock off 255 balls during
the third match. It was also Rohit's maiden double Test ton.
# Rohit Sharma has also become only the fifth Indian opener after
Vinoo Mankad, Budhi Kunderan, Sunil Gavskar and Virender Sehwag to score
500-plus runs in a single Test series.
# Indian skipper Virat Kohli become the first batsman of the country
to score seven double centuries in the longest format of the game when
he smashed a massive 254-run knock in the first innings of the second
Test--which was also his career-best score.
# En route to his blistering knock, Kohli also surpassed former
opener Virender Sehwag and legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar for the
most double hundreds in Test cricket by an Indian.
# Kohli, who scored his first twin century against the West Indies in
2016, also went past former Australian cricketer Don Bradman's tally of
6,996 runs in Test cricket. With 7,000 runs in 81 Test matches, he also
became the third-fastest Indian and joint fourth-fastest overall to
amass these many runs.
# Not only this, Kohli also went past legendary batsman Sunil
Gavaskar to become the fourth fastest player to reach 26 Test centuries
in terms of innings played. Kohli took 138 innings to reach the mark,
while the former India cricketer scored his 26th Test ton in 144
innings.
# As the captain, Kohli became the first skipper to enforce a
follow-on on South Africa in the longest format of the game since 2008.
The 30-year-old asked South Africa to bat again on the fourth day of the
second Test in Pune after bundling out the visitors for 275 runs to
take a massive 326-run lead in their first innings on Saturday.
# Meanwhile, Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli, and Rohit Sharma also
became the first three Indian batsmen to score a double century in the
same Test series.
