The Indian bowlers struggled to extract any purchase from the Guwahati strip as the South African lower order, led by Senuran Muthusamy (106) and Marco Jansen (93) made merry, helping the visitors to post a massive 489 runs.
South Africa's Senuran Muthusamy scored a century and Marco Jansen slammed 93, putting the Proteas in an advantageous position against India who started the day looking to take the 4 remaining wickets after ending Day 1 at 247/6
Stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retained their place in the squad after their exploits in the Australia series while pacer Jasprit Bumrah was rested.
Muthusamy struck his maiden Test ton (109), but Jansen (93) missed his personal milestone, but their efforts put South Africa on top of the second Test.
The board had reckoned on a much-hyped blockbuster five-Test series against the Old Enemy, but they may not have anticipated the first Ashes match in more than a century to have finished inside two days.
This is Muthusamy’s second tour of India and did nothing to catch the eye on the 2019 tour, when he made his debut, other than scalping Virat Kohli as his maiden Test wicket.
KL Rahul dropped Aiden Markram, which cost us. Catches do win you matches," Chopra said on his YouTube channel
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"Because on the first day, you were knocked out for 172, you lost five wickets in the space of 12 or 15 or maybe 20 runs," said Ashwin
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KL Rahul said: "I just manage my quantities. I control my sugar (intake), can't say I don't eat sugar. I stay away from wheat. I will still eat a pizza once in a while. But I love my Indian food.”
Stubbs had hit Kuldeep for a couple of sixes and was one short of half-ton when the spinner tossed one up and it drifted in the air and started deviating after pitching.
Ten Doeschate termed the first day track as the one where scoring runs was a tad difficult. Most of the Proteas top-order batters were dismissed after getting starts. The visitors ended day one on 247 for six after electing to bat.
The top tier of Camp Nou remains mostly a skeleton of metal and concrete beams and pillars; huge construction cranes loom over the stadium and are visible from the stands, and there are areas that look like a construction site. But Barcelona still celebrated the day with fireworks followed by blue-and-burgundy smoke just minutes before the game.
Left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz (3-16) and leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed (1-28) then squeezed Sri Lanka in the middle overs and picked up wickets with regular intervals as they slipped to 80-5 in 12 overs.
Winners between Javokhir Sindarov-Nodirbek Yakubboev and Wei Yi-Andrey Esipenko will qualify for Candidates while the losers will face off for one remaining spot
Bavuma's first "brush with captaincy" was actually in 2019, in a Test against India in Ranchi. Bavuma was not the captain for South Africa in the game, but he did walk out for the toss as a "proxy captain".
The latest loss saw the defending champions plummet to 11th in the table with 18 points, 8 points adrift of league leaders Arsenal who still have a game in hand.
The Ashes was off to a newsworthy start when the 1st Test in Perth couldn't last 2 whole days with 19 wickets falling on Day 1, followed by 13 wickets on Day 2.









