India and South Africa played out a shortest-ever Test match in the 147 years history of Test cricket and fifth briefest match of all timesh held in Cape Town when the visitors won by seven wickets.
After winning the second match India drew the two-match series 1-1 when the hosts South Africa won the first Test by an innings and 32 runs which was ended on Day Three.
However, the match in Cape Town, started on Wednesday, lasted only for 107 overs, making it the shortest ever in the Test history.
The Newlands Test broke the biggest record of all times after lasting only for 642 balls making it the shortest ever when the previous record of the shortest ever Test was 89 years back in 1935.
At that time, 1935 also South Africa was involved with the record when that was also the second Test match against Australia and that was lasted for 109.2 overs at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
The third shortest Test match was held between West Indies and England in 1935 which was lasted for 112 overs. That was heavily impacted by rain but England won the match by four wickets.
The fourth short-lived match was in the Ashes series of England and Australia in 1888 and that was lasted for 196 overs at Old Trafford followed by Lord’s match in the same series in 1888 and that was ended in 197 overs.
However, in Cape Town series, in the first inning on Wednesday South Africa were all-out for only 53 runs in 23.2 overs and in reply India were all out by putting up 153 in 34.5 overs, before South Africa were bundled out again for 176 runs by 36.5 overs despite Aiden Marksman’s hurricane innings of 106 runs off 103 balls. But their shaky batting crumbled to a paltry second innings total to set India for an easy 79 runs target to win. The dominant performance secured India a convincing win by seven wickets in the historic Test match.
Reuters add: India seamer Jasprit Bumrah took 6-61 as the tourists bowled South Africa out in their second innings for 176 on the stroke of lunch on the second day of the second and final test at Newlands on Thursday and face a victory target of 79.
Bumrah bowled a superb probing line but also profited from poor shot selection by the home batters, who seemed in a hurry to score runs on a difficult wicket.
South Africa opener Aiden Markram blasted a quick-fire 106 from 103 balls as he defied the conditions but lost partners at regular intervals, which forced him to launch a blistering assault with the bat.
India will have plenty of belief they can level the series at 1-1 but having bowled South Africa out for 55 in the first innings of the match they will also be wary of getting through the new ball relatively unscathed.
After South Africa resumed their innings on 62 for three, David Bedingham was Bumrah’s first victim in the opening over of the morning as he chased a delivery outside off-stump and was caught by wicketkeeper KL Rahul for 11.
Kyle Verreynne tried an ill-advised pull and was caught at mid-on by Mohammed Siraj for 9, before Marco Jansen was caught and bowled by Bumrah for 11.
Keshav Maharaj became the seamer’s fourth victim of his spell when he guided a delivery to Shreyas Iyer at slip when he had 3.
Markram took the attack to India and it worked as he raced to his century in 99 balls but played one big shot to many as he skied a Mohammed Siraj delivery to Rohit Sharma at mid-off to end an innings of 17 fours and two sixes.
