India Face Huge Task To Avoid Another Home Defeat

Second Test, Guwahati (day 2 of five)

South Africa 489: Muthusamy 109, Jansen 93; Kuldeep 4-115

India 9-0: Jaiswal 7*

India way by 480

Scorecard

India look an uphill conflict if they are to debar different location Test bid conclusion aft South Africa made 489 connected time 2 of nan 2nd Test successful Guwahati.

Senuran Muthusamy scored his first Test period and chap all-rounder Marco Jansen a career-best 93 arsenic nan little bid of nan Proteas, who are 1-0 up successful nan two-match series, disappointment nan hosts by keeping them successful nan section for overmuch of nan day.

Resuming connected 25 not out, Muthusamy shared a guidelines of 88 pinch Verreynne and 97 pinch Jansen earlier being dismissed for 109 from 206 balls.

While Muthusamy dug in, Jansen pushed nan scoring connected by striking 7 sixes successful his 91-ball knock.

No squad has made arsenic galore runs successful nan first innings of a Test successful India and gone connected to suffer nan match.

India's vexation was compounded by nan umpires taking nan players disconnected for bad ray aft conscionable 6.1 overs of their reply. They were 9-0.

India went 12 years without losing a Test bid astatine location until they were beaten 3-0 by New Zealand past year.

Though they hit West Indies 2-0 successful October, nonaccomplishment to move astir this Test would mean a 2nd location bid conclusion successful small complete 12 months.