Delhi: India’s first innings on the third day of the Guwahati Test was very disappointing. Team India was all out for only 201 runs. South African bowler Marco Jensen broke the back of Indian batting and took a brilliant 6 wickets. The day’s play had to end prematurely due to bad light and at stumps South Africa had scored 26 runs without losing any wicket. The visiting team is now on a strong lead of 314 runs.

India’s poor batting

India started the morning playing cautiously. Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul added runs, but the partnership could not be big. Rahul was out after scoring 22 runs. After this, Yashasvi played a good inning of 58 runs, but he too could not handle the team.

Sai Sudarshan (15), Dhruv Jurel (0) and captain Rishabh Pant (7) returned to the pavilion cheaply. Big innings were expected from the experienced players of the team, but no one could fulfill the responsibility.

Ravindra Jadeja (6) and Nitish Reddy (10) also could not survive. India’s position was 122/7 and it was difficult to save the follow-on.

Washington Sundar and Kuldeep saved their shame

The most important partnership of the Indian innings was between Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav. Sundar scored 48 runs while Kuldeep struggled and added 19 runs in 134 balls. Together they took the team beyond 200 and saved it from follow-on.

Marco Jensen troubled almost every Indian batsman. Indian batsmen had no answer to his bounce and bounce. Jensen took 6 wickets for 48 runs in 19.5 overs. Harmer took 3 wickets and Maharaj got one wicket.

South Africa got a big lead

By the end of the second day’s play, South Africa had scored 26 runs in 8 overs without losing any wicket. Ryan Rickelton is at the crease after scoring 13 runs and Aiden Markram has scored 12 runs.

South Africa is now ahead by 314 runs and is in complete control of the match. On the fourth day, the visiting team will try to take a big lead by scoring fast runs so that India can be put under pressure again in the fourth innings.