India face home series defeat by South Africa

Guwahati, day three of the fifth test

South Africa 489: (Muthusamy 109, Kuldeep 4-115) &amp, 26-0 (Rickelton 13*)

India 201: (Jaiswal 58, Jansen 6-48)

South Africa leads by 314 points.

After being bowled out for 201 by South Africa on day three of the third Test in Guwahati, India had a massive 288-run lead in the first innings. The series would now be lost.

Seamer Marco Jansen was the tourists’ long-time favorite to win the series by 2-0, going 648 innings before the tourists came to a 26-0, 314 runs lead.

Yashasvi Jaiswal, who started with a score of 58 before being caught off the bowling of Simon Harmer, was returning with a score of 9-0.

As the home side fell from 102-3 to 122-7, Jansen, who had a career-best 93 in South Africa’s opening innings, took four wickets in a row to slam India’s middle order.

Washington Sundar (48) and Kuldeep Yadav (19) put together a slow-paced 72-run partnership, but Aiden Markram caught him along with five others after he edged a Harmer delivery.

Kuldeep and Jasprit Bumrah’s two wickets, respectively, were then taken by Jansen to close the innings.

India hasn’t lost a Test series away from home for 12 years, until New Zealand defeated them 3-3 last year.