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'Eden Gardens pitch not a turner': Ravichandran Ashwin reacts to India’s 30-run loss to South Africa in Kolkata Test
November 16, 2025 8:22 pm
Ravichandran Ashwin said that one could not give a turning pitch at the Eden Gardens, and if that was the case, then one would get a wicket similar to the India-South Africa first Test
Temba Bavuma: 'Spin-wise, track was little bit on extreme side....tricky to trust bounce... some balls bounced nicely, others were squatting'
November 16, 2025 6:25 pm
South African skipper says he's never played a Day 4 or 5 of a Test match in India for it's just how pitches have been, and arrived knowing the Indians would offer a spinning track, so nothing was unexpected
Dale Steyn counters Gambhir's Eden Gardens pitch defence: 'Any Test that finishes in 3 days has demons in it, for sure'
November 16, 2025 4:32 pm
Steyn pointed to Washington Sundar and South African skipper Temba Bavuma as the most solid batters on display.
India vs South Africa highlights, 1st Test Day 3 Updates: SA beat IND by 30 runs in Kolkata
November 16, 2025 7:01 pm
India (IND) vs South Africa (SA) highlights, 1st Test Match Day 3 Updates: Earlier in the Test South African skipper Temba Bavuma won the toss and opted to bat first against Shubman Gill's India in the first of the two match Test series
India’s wrecker-in-chief Simon Harmer: ‘Put myself under pressure trying to compete with R Ashwin in 2015’
November 15, 2025 7:07 pm
A Kolpak deal to play in English county ended the offspinner’s South African career in 2016 before it revived again six years later
India vs South Africa: Poor pitch reduces Test to a farce in Kolkata
November 15, 2025 7:02 pm
No batsman, 29 strode in and out, managed to touch 40; 26 wickets fell in two days as the horror track stripped the game of its soul
Jasprit Bumrah's craft, Mohammed Siraj's heart: What Dale Steyn had to say about India's lead pacers after super start in first Test at Eden Gardens
November 14, 2025 9:19 pm
Bumrah was miserly with his bowling on Day 1 of the Kolkata Test as he conceded at just 1.92 runs per over on his way to a 16th five-for in Test cricket.
Wicked, whimsy bounce at Eden Gardens keeps both sets of batsmen on toes, as SA skittled for 159; India lose Jaiswal
November 14, 2025 8:09 pm
Proteas batting coach Ashwell Prince reckons it's tough for batsmen to settle in at Kolkata, and 150 might be challenging target in 4th innings
Jasprit Bumrah on adapting to Kolkata track: 'Was difficult to understand the right length, so you keep bowling and figuring things out'
November 14, 2025 7:48 pm
Ultimately ending with a five-wicket haul, his 16th in Tests, Bumrah played a massive hand as the South Africans were undone by India’s disciplined bowling attack and the unpredictable nature of the pitch, skittled out for 159
Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav deliver a deadly post-lunch dessert onto South Africa
November 14, 2025 7:50 pm
South Africa’s batsmen would have felt that they had been transported into a dark arts realm in second session, facing superhuman bowlers and not two simple smiling assassins from Ahmedabad and Kanpur
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