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| 11th Consecutive Home Series Victory |
India Vs South Africa Test Series 2019
By India vs South Africa Test Series Victory, India created history to achieve a milestone of 11 consecutive series victory in India. Team India beat South Africa by an inning and 137 runs. And also ensured the series victory against South Africa. A short overview of the Test series are as follows.
1st Test of the Series 2019
1st Test of India vs South Africa was played from 15th Sept to 19th Sept 2019 where Team India batted first. And Rohit Sharma started the inning for the very first time in Test cricket as the opener along with Mayank Agarwal.
Both of them batted flawlessly to score 317 runs as openers in the first inning. And is the 2nd highest opening partnership after Sehwag and Dravid's 410 runs.
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| Mayank Agarwal |
Mayank Agarwal scored his maiden Test hundred and converted it into double century and became the 4th Indian cricketer to do so.
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| Rohit Sharma |
Though Rohit Sharma failed to score a double hundred in first Inning, his ton in both the inning lead India to enormous victory. Rohit became the one to hit the highest number of 13 sixes in a Test match. He also became the first cricketer to score ton in both the inning of a Test Match as an opener.
Besides Batsmen R Ashwin's 6 wickets in the first inning and Shami's five-wicket haul in the second inning helped to that victory. Despite Dean Elgar's and de Knock's centuries in the first Inning South Africa were in backfoot.
2nd Test of the Series 2019
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| Mayank Agarwal |
2nd Test of India vs South Africa was played between 8th to 12th Oct 2019 but the match ended up in 4 days of play in favor of India. India once again dominated South Africa in the entire match. And Mayank Agarwal's 103 runs in the first inning put India into the commanding position.
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| Virat Kohli |
After Mayank its Virat Kohli the Indian captain who finally scored his first century in this calendar year. And played an unbelievable knock to convert that 100 into 254* runs. He scored his 7th double century in Test cricket which is the highest number by any cricketer in the world. He also surpasses his highest individual runs in a Test match. And his partnership with R Jadeja for the 5th wicket helped India to set a huge total of 601-5. Ravindra Jadeja scored a magnificent 91 runs of just 103 balls to set such a huge score.
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| India vs South Africa 2nd Test Match in Pune 2019 |
It was then the bowlers who once again bowled South Africa out twice in the match. Despite Keshav Maharaj's magnificent knock of 72 runs and du Plessis's 64 runs in the first inning, South Africa coudn't fight. Umesh Yadav's 6 wickets and R Ashwin's 7 in the match helped India to ensure the 11 consecutive home series victory.
India vs South Africa 3rd Test in Ranchi
Team India once again won the toss and batted first and South Africa lost the toss despite Bavuma's call who came along with Faf for the toss. South Africa started well by picking 3 quick wickets. Mayank Agarwal departed on 10, Pujara on 0 and the captain Kohli on 12 runs and India were 39-3 at a point.
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| India vs South Africa 3rd Test |
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Rohit-Rahane batted sensibly till the launch and then scored runs at a good pace to built a partnership of 267 runs. Rahane scored 115 runs and Rohit got his first double ton in Test Cricket and scored 205 runs. And India ended the first inning with Jadeja's quick half-century. And some big hits by Umesh Yadav took the score to 497-9.
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| Rohit Sharma First Double Ton |
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South African batting looked too ordinary in the match as the Indian bowlers bowled them out twice in the match. They were bowled out on 162 runs in the first inning and on 134 runs in the 2nd inning. Here Umesh and Shami picked 5 wickets each, Ashwin got 1, Jadeja picked 3 and the debutant got 4 wickets.
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