India v South Africa, Cape Town

India 223/10 & 198/10

South Africa 210/10 & 212/3

South Africa won by 7 wickets

India v South Africa 2021 · 3rd Test Newlands, Cape Town, Cape Town 11–14 Jan 2022

How hard each side found the batting

Uneven — India had it tougher than South Africa.

India

0.74× -26%

South Africa

0.88× -12%

harder to scoretypicaleasier

The lead

On equal conditions, South Africa led by more than the scoreboard showed.

Who won it · by value

Runs, and what they were worth in these conditions

KD Petersen South Africa

154 +280

RR Pant India

127 +257

Virat Kohli India

108 +229

HE van der Dussen South Africa

62 +83

T Bavuma South Africa

60 +75

Best bowling

Top match figures

JJ Bumrah5/42

M Jansen4/36

K Rabada4/73

L Ngidi3/21

Top score

100*

RR Pant · India

Biggest stand

5th wkt · India

Worst collapse

3–18

3 wkts for 18 · India

Match facts

TossIndia, bat

ResultSouth Africa won by 7 wickets

Length4 days

India

223 /10 (77.3 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
KL Rahul	c K Verreynne b D Olivier	12	35	1	0	34.29
MA Agarwal	c AK Markram b K Rabada	15	35	3	0	42.86
CA Pujara	c K Verreynne b M Jansen	43	77	7	0	55.84
Virat Kohli	c K Verreynne b K Rabada	79	201	12	1	39.30
AM Rahane	c K Verreynne b K Rabada	9	12	2	0	75.00
RR Pant	c KD Petersen b M Jansen	27	50	4	0	54.00
R Ashwin	c K Verreynne b M Jansen	2	10	0	0	20.00
SN Thakur	c KD Petersen b KA Maharaj	12	9	1	1	133.33
JJ Bumrah	c D Elgar b K Rabada	0	9	0	0	0.00
UT Yadav*	not out	4	14	0	0	28.57
Mohammed Shami	c T Bavuma b L Ngidi	7	20	1	0	35.00

Extras 13 (b 5, lb 1, nb 7)

Total 223/10 (77.3 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
K Rabada	22.0	4	73	4	3.32
D Olivier	18.0	5	42	1	2.33
M Jansen	18.0	6	55	3	3.06
L Ngidi	14.3	8	33	1	2.28
KA Maharaj	5.0	2	14	1	2.80

Fall of wickets

1-31 (KL Rahul, 11.2)·2-33 (MA Agarwal, 12.2)·3-95 (CA Pujara, 37.3)·4-116 (AM Rahane, 42.1)·5-167 (RR Pant, 60.3)·6-175 (R Ashwin, 62.5)·7-205 (SN Thakur, 67.4)·8-210 (JJ Bumrah, 70.5)·9-211 (Virat Kohli, 72.3)·10-223 (Mohammed Shami, 77.3)

South Africa

210 /10 (76.4 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	SR
D Elgar	c CA Pujara b JJ Bumrah	3	16	0	18.75
AK Markram	b JJ Bumrah	8	22	1	36.36
KA Maharaj	b UT Yadav	25	45	4	55.56
KD Petersen	c CA Pujara b JJ Bumrah	72	166	9	43.37
HE van der Dussen	c Virat Kohli b UT Yadav	21	54	0	38.89
T Bavuma	c Virat Kohli b Mohammed Shami	28	52	4	53.85
K Verreynne	c RR Pant b Mohammed Shami	0	2	0	0.00
M Jansen	b JJ Bumrah	7	26	0	26.92
K Rabada	c JJ Bumrah b SN Thakur	15	25	1	60.00
D Olivier*	not out	10	39	2	25.64
L Ngidi	c R Ashwin b JJ Bumrah	3	17	0	17.65

Extras 13 (b 4, lb 4, w 1, nb 4)

Total 210/10 (76.4 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
JJ Bumrah	23.3	9	42	5	1.79
UT Yadav	16.0	3	64	2	4.00
Mohammed Shami	16.0	4	39	2	2.44
SN Thakur	12.1	2	37	1	3.04
R Ashwin	9.0	3	15	0	1.67

Fall of wickets

1-10 (D Elgar, 4.4)·2-17 (AK Markram, 8.2)·3-45 (KA Maharaj, 20.2)·4-112 (HE van der Dussen, 39.2)·5-159 (T Bavuma, 55.2)·6-159 (K Verreynne, 55.4)·7-176 (M Jansen, 62.2)·8-179 (KD Petersen, 64.4)·9-200 (K Rabada, 71.3)·10-210 (L Ngidi, 76.3)

India

198 /10 (67.3 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
KL Rahul	c AK Markram b M Jansen	10	22	2	0	45.45
MA Agarwal	c D Elgar b K Rabada	7	15	1	0	46.67
CA Pujara	c KD Petersen b M Jansen	9	33	2	0	27.27
Virat Kohli	c AK Markram b L Ngidi	29	143	4	0	20.28
AM Rahane	c D Elgar b K Rabada	1	9	0	0	11.11
RR Pant*	not out	100	139	6	4	71.94
R Ashwin	c M Jansen b L Ngidi	7	15	1	0	46.67
SN Thakur	c K Verreynne b L Ngidi	5	13	1	0	38.46
UT Yadav	c K Verreynne b K Rabada	0	10	0	0	0.00
Mohammed Shami	c HE van der Dussen b M Jansen	0	10	0	0	0.00
JJ Bumrah	c T Bavuma b M Jansen	2	5	0	0	40.00

Extras 28 (b 8, lb 9, w 2, nb 9)

Total 198/10 (67.3 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
K Rabada	17.0	5	53	3	3.12
D Olivier	10.0	1	38	0	3.80
M Jansen	19.3	6	36	4	1.85
L Ngidi	14.0	5	21	3	1.50
KA Maharaj	7.0	1	33	0	4.71

Fall of wickets

1-20 (MA Agarwal, 4.6)·2-24 (KL Rahul, 5.5)·3-57 (CA Pujara, 17.2)·4-58 (AM Rahane, 18.6)·5-152 (Virat Kohli, 48.2)·6-162 (R Ashwin, 52.3)·7-170 (SN Thakur, 56.1)·8-180 (UT Yadav, 58.5)·9-189 (Mohammed Shami, 63.6)·10-198 (JJ Bumrah, 67.4)

South Africa

212 /3 (63.3 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	SR
AK Markram	c KL Rahul b Mohammed Shami	16	22	4	72.73
D Elgar	c RR Pant b JJ Bumrah	30	96	3	31.25
KD Petersen	b SN Thakur	82	113	10	72.57
HE van der Dussen*	not out	41	95	3	43.16
T Bavuma*	not out	32	58	5	55.17

Extras 11 (lb 8, nb 3)

Total 212/3 (63.3 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
JJ Bumrah	17.0	5	54	1	3.18
Mohammed Shami	15.0	3	41	1	2.73
UT Yadav	9.0	0	36	0	4.00
SN Thakur	11.0	3	22	1	2.00
R Ashwin	11.3	1	51	0	4.43

Fall of wickets

1-23 (AK Markram, 7.3)·2-101 (D Elgar, 29.4)·3-155 (KD Petersen, 46.2)