{"id":16102,"date":"2025-11-25T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-cricket-team-closer-to-recording-historic-test-series\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:24","slug":"sa-cricket-team-closer-to-recording-historic-test-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-cricket-team-closer-to-recording-historic-test-series\/","title":{"rendered":"SA cricket team closer to recording historic test series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The South African (SA) cricket team is another day closer to recording a historic test series win on Indian soil.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Proteas declared their second innings closed on 220 for the loss of five wickets just after tea on day four at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, setting India a improbable victory target of 549 runs.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Indians ended the day on 27 for the loss of two wickets, still trailing by 521 runs.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>The Proteas resumed their second innings on their overnight total of 29 without loss.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Openers Aiden Markram and Ryan Rickelton added 30 more runs to their total before spinner Ravindra Jadeja struck to remove Rickelton for 35.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Markram became Jadeja&#8217;s second victim in the morning session, bowled for 29.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Captain Temba Bavuma fell to the spin of Washington Sundar for three, soon after, leaving the visitors on 77 for three.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Tristan Stubbs and Tony de Zorzi steadied their innings, with Stubbs recording a half century, to take SA to lunch on 107 for three.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The pair extended their fourth wicket stand to 101 runs, on the other side of the break, before Jadeja again made a breakthrough, trapping De Zorzi leg before for 49.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Adding to India&#8217;s woes, Stubbs then picked up the mantle with Wiaan Mulder, and by tea-time, the SA were coasting on 220 for the loss of four wickets, with a mammoth lead of 508 runs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">With no declaration forthcoming during the break, Stubbs and Mulder extended their fifth wicket partnership to 82 runs before Stubbs was dismissed for 94.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Bavuma then declared their second innings closed on 260 for five, setting India a record victory target of 549 runs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">SA&#8217;s bowlers reaffirmed the Proteas&#8217; dominance in this match just before the end of the day&#8217;s play.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Fast bowler Marco Jansen dismissed opener Yash Jaiswal for 13 and spinner Simon Harmer rattled KL Rahul&#8217;s stumps on six as India limped to stumps on 27 for two.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15986,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-16102","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Focus on SA cricket team","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20054,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16102\/revisions\/20054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}