24/01Result
3rd Test, India tour of South Africa at Johannesburg, Jan 24-27 2018
India won by 63 runs
Player of the Match
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Bhuvneshwar KumarIndia
24/01Result
3rd Test, India tour of South Africa at Johannesburg, Jan 24-27 2018
India won by 63 runs
Player of the Match
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Bhuvneshwar KumarIndia
, play 04:02
Agarkar: 'South Africa will have to do something miraculous to get those runs'

Ajit Agarkar believes South Africa weren't at their best with the ball after lunch, and says India are 90-10 favourites to wrap up a win in Johannesburg

, play 04:32
Is there anyone who celebrates a wicket harder than Kohli?

Would you pay to watch another match at this Wanderers pitch? Raunak Kapoor and Daryll Cullinan answer that and more of your questions

, play 02:49
Cullinan: India didn't bowl the right lengths

Daryll Cullinan believes the India bowlers also bowled a bit too wide and the hosts got a big boost in the first session

, play 05:10
Did Kohli save Rohit's Test career?

Firdose Moonda and Raunak Kapoor field your tweets about first names on teams sheets, Pujara being faster than light, and how to pronounce 'Phehlukwayo'

, play 05:36
Cullinan: South Africa will win 3-0

Daryll Cullinan and Raunak Kapoor look ahead to the third Test between South Africa and India at the Wanderers

Match Coverage

All Match News

2nd-innings Shami

12

Wickets for Shami in the 2nd innings of this series, average 8.75. In the 1st innings, 3 wickets at 50.33

Elgar stands alone

3

Instances of SA openers carrying their bats in Tests since their readmission - Kirsten made 100* v Pakistan, 1997, and Elgar made 118* v Eng, 2015

Amla in control

84.2

Amla's in-control percentage in his knock of 52, the best among all batsmen in the Test. KL Rahul had a control % of 84.1 and Vijay 80.3 in India's 2nd innings

Rare century stands

3

Century partnerships in the series, all for SA: de Villiers-Elgar in Centurion, de Villiers-du Plessis in Cape Town and Amla-Elgar in Jo'burg

Fivers at Wanderers

4

No. of five-wicket hauls by India bowlers at the Wanderers in Johannesburg - their most at any venue in South Africa. Kumble, Srinath, Sreesanth and Bumrah are the ones with five-fors there.

Rabada's resistence

2

Kagiso Rabada has played his top-two longest Test innings in this series - 66 balls in first innings in Cape Town and 84 balls in first innings of this Test.

A mini collapse

43

Runs for which India lost their last six wickets, after being 144 for 4. Except Pujara, Kohli and Bhuveshwar none of them could get into double-digits.

A fifty finally

11

No. of consecutive innings without a fifty by Pujara outside Asia, before this match. His last fifty outside Asia was 73 against Australia at Adelaide. This is only his 5th 50+ score in 34 innings.

Pujara's crawl

54

No. of balls taken by Pujara to score his first run in this innings. Since 2001, only one player has taken more balls to open his account: Stuart Broad 61 balls v NZ, Auckland, 2013.

Flop show

12.30

Average of India's openers in this series - the lowest in any series of 3 or more Tests. In 10 innings between Vijay, Dhawan and Rahul they have played just one inns of 20+ runs.

Unbeaten

0

No. of losses for India at the Wanderers, in their previous four Tests. They won one, in 2006-07, and drawn three.