India lose 6 wickets for no runs against South Africa
Batting first in the match, South Africa were bowled out for just 55 runs. India was progressing well to respond. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal departed before opening the run book, but Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli were leading quite well. Rohit scored 39 runs off 50 balls. Gill played an innings of 36 runs off 55 balls. After losing 4 wickets to reach 153 runs, it seems like India is getting lost. KL Rahul returned to dressing room as the team's fifth wicket with 8 runs off 33 balls.

Khan Mutasim Billah LifeEditor
Posted - 2024-01-03T22:59:31+06:00
Updated - 2024-01-04T00:02:58+06:00
20 wickets fell on the first day of the South Africa vs India second Test in Cape Town. The day's play is not over yet, so who knows how many more wickets will fall in one day!
Batting first in the match, South
Africa were bowled out for just 55 runs. India was progressing well to respond.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal departed before opening the run book, but Rohit Sharma,
Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli were leading quite well. Rohit scored 39 runs off 50
balls. Gill played an innings of 36 runs off 55 balls. After losing 4 wickets
to reach 153 runs, it seems like India is getting lost. KL Rahul returned to dressing
room as the team's fifth wicket with 8 runs off 33 balls.
After that, the rest of the batters just went to the crease and returned to the dressing room. India lost the last 6 wickets at the head of that 153 runs in 2 overs. India's innings collapsed like a house of cards due to the fall of one wicket after another. India lost the last 6 wickets without picking up any runs. Virat Kohli, who scored 46 runs in the innings, was also dismissed at the team’s 153 runs. 4 of the last 5 batters on the scorecard have been out for 0 runs. Mukesh Kumar survived as the last batter with 0 runs off 0 balls. Have you ever seen such a scorecard before?
Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer combined with the last four batters who were dismissed for zero runs. This is the eighth such incident in Test cricket and India's second. In 2014 against England also 6 batters of India were out for 0 runs. However, after so many incidents, India took a lead of 98 runs. Now it's South Africa's turn to bat in the second innings.