Many cricket records for India in 2nd test against SA |
In a classic all round performance, the Indian cricket team beat South Africa by an innings and 137 runs in the second Test at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Sunday. With this victory, India clinched the three-Test series 2-0, thereby setting a new world record of most consecutive Test series wins at home. India have now won 11 straight Test series at home to better their joint-record which they held with Australia, who twice won 10 home series in a row -- from 1994 to 2001 and 2004 to 2008. After India enforced the follow-on on South Africa on Day 4 morning, the visitors immediately found the going hard and were finally bundled out for 189 runs in the second innings with Umesh Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja picking three wickets each. The match saw, Indian opener Mayank Agarwal scoring his second century of the series, Ravi Chandran Ashwin demolished the proteas in the first innings with 4 wickets and in the second took two more to go past the legendary Dennis Lillee`s tally of 355 test wickets. With the Gandhi Mandela series win, India have now begun the home leg of the World Test Championship with a dominating victory to consolidate their top spot. India and South Africa will now play in the third Test starting from October 19 in Ranchi.
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