{"id":306022,"date":"2025-11-24T17:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:49:14","slug":"india-v-south-africa-hosts-face-home-series-defeat-in-guwahati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306022\/","title":{"rendered":"India v South Africa: Hosts face home series defeat in Guwahati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India conceded a massive 288-run first innings lead and face a series defeat after they were bowled out for 201 by South Africa on day three of the second Test in Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seamer Marco Jansen took 6-48 before the tourists closed on 26-0, 314 runs ahead and now firm favourites to seal a 2-0 series victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Resuming on 9-0, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal top-scored with 58 before being caught by Jansen off the bowling of spinner Simon Harmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jansen, who struck a career-best 93 in South Africa&#8217;s first innings, took four consecutive wickets to blow away India&#8217;s middle-order, as the home side slipped from 102-3 to 122-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Washington Sundar (48) put on a slow-scoring 72-run partnership with Kuldeep Yadav (19), but his resistance ended when he edged a Harmer delivery and became one of five players caught by Aiden Markram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jansen then took the two remaining wickets of Kuldeep and Jasprit Bumrah to conclude the innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India went 12 years without losing a Test series at home until they were beaten 3-0 by New Zealand last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Though they beat West Indies 2-0 in October, losing this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cjdx3x7jd55o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two-match series<\/a> would mean a second home defeat in little over 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India conceded a massive 288-run first innings lead and face a series defeat after they were bowled out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-306022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}