{"id":278925,"date":"2025-11-23T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:47:11","slug":"india-v-south-africa-hosts-face-battle-to-avoid-another-home-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278925\/","title":{"rendered":"India v South Africa: Hosts face battle to avoid another home defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India face an uphill battle if they are to avoid another home Test series defeat after South Africa made 489 on day two of the second Test in Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senuran Muthusamy scored his first Test century and fellow all-rounder Marco Jansen a career-best 93 as the lower order of the Proteas, who are 1-0 up in the two-match series, frustrated the hosts by keeping them in the field for much of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Resuming on 25 not out, Muthusamy shared a stand of 88 with Verreynne and 97 with Jansen before being dismissed for 109 from 206 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Muthusamy dug in, Jansen pushed the scoring on by striking seven sixes in his 91-ball knock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No team has made as many runs in the first innings of a Test in India and gone on to lose the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India&#8217;s frustration was compounded by the umpires taking the players off for bad light after just 6.1 overs of their reply. They were 9-0.<\/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, failure to turn around this Test would mean a second home series defeat in little over 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India face an uphill battle if they are to avoid another home Test series defeat after South Africa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-278925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}