South Africa defeated India by 408 runs in the second Test in Guwahati. With the target of 549 runs, India’s second innings ended on 140 runs. The performance of India’s batsmen was very poor in this Test, only Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a half-century in the first innings and Ravindra Jadeja scored a half-century in the second innings. Team India were also all out for 201 runs in the first innings. In this series, Temba Bavuma maintained his record of never losing a test as captain. South Africa won the two-match Test series 2–0. 5th defeat in last 7 matches, Team India drops down in WTC standings. India have lost five of their last seven Tests played at home. Last year, in the same month, Team India lost the Test series 3-0 at home against New Zealand. Team India had a poor performance in Kolkata before Guwahati, where the pitch was blamed, but here the visiting team’s batsmen performed brilliantly. Still, none of India’s batsmen could perform well on this pitch. Senuran Muthusamy scored a century (109) in the first innings, while bowler Marco Jensen, who scored heavily against the Indian bowlers (93), missed his century. After India lost the Test series 0-2 against South Africa, India moved down to 5th in the World Test Championship 2025-2027 standings. South Africa scored 489 runs in the first innings. Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bat first. Aiden Markram (38) and Ryan Rickelton (35) gave the team a good start with an 82-run partnership to take the first wicket. Tristan Stubbs (49) and Temba Bavuma (41) added 84 runs for the third wicket. Indian bowlers were ineffective in the first innings, a proof of this is that lower order batsman Marco Jensen also played a brilliant innings of 93 runs, through which South Africa could reach a total of 489. Senuran Muthusamy top-scored 109 runs for South Africa in the first innings, which included two sixes and 10 fours. It was his first Test century. Marco Jensen created history by hitting seven sixes in his explosive innings of 93 runs and became the joint batsman to hit most sixes in a Test innings against India. Kuldeep Yadav took the most wickets for India in the first innings, taking four wickets at an economy rate of 3.94, giving away 115 runs. Bumrah and Siraj took two wickets each, but they too could not stop the score. India’s first innings collapsed for 201 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul got India off to a good start in the first innings, putting on a 65-run partnership for the first wicket. However, India’s middle order was a complete flop. Rahul (22) was dismissed by Keshav Maharaj, after which Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his half-century. He also fell victim to Simon Harmer for 58 runs. It was India’s second wicket for 95 runs, followed by India’s seventh wicket for 122 runs. This means that six wickets fell within 27 runs. Sai Sudarshan (15), Dhruv Jurel (0), Rishabh Pant (7), Ravindra Jadeja (6) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (10) were out cheaply. Marco Jensen took six wickets in this innings. Only the partnership of Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav took India past 200. Sundar scored 48 runs, while Kuldeep scored only 19 runs, but he scored 134 balls. India’s second innings was reduced to 140 runs. South Africa took a lead of 288 runs in the first innings. The visiting team declared its second innings at 260/5, giving India a target of 549 runs to win. Tristan Stubbs scored 93 runs in the second innings but missed his century. With his wicket, Bavuma declared the innings. India’s batting also flopped in the second innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal (13) and KL Rahul (6) could not give good starts; Jaiswal was dismissed by Jensen, while KL Rahul was dismissed by Harmer. Today, on the final day of the Test, Kuldeep Yadav became the third wicket of India’s innings. After this, Dhruv Jurel (2) and Rishabh Pant (13) also got out cheaply. Sudarshan was also out after scoring 14 runs. Ravindra Jadeja put up some fight but it wasn’t enough. Jadeja scored 54 runs, which included two sixes and four fours. India’s second innings was reduced to 140 runs. South Africa won this match by a huge margin of 408 runs. Simon Harmer took six wickets in this innings, which was the second five-wicket haul of his Test career. Keshav Maharaj took two wickets. Marco Jensen and Senuran Muthusamy took one wicket each.