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Senuran Muthusamy showed his batting prowess portion Kyle Verreynne was defiant successful his attack arsenic South Africa frustrated Indian bowling portion to scope 316 for six astatine beverage connected time 2 of the 2nd Test successful Guwahati connected Sunday (November 23, 2025).
Left-hander Muthusamy (56 batting disconnected 131 balls) looked coagulated successful defence en way his 3rd Test 50 and besides added unbroken 70 runs for the seventh wicket with keeper-batter Verreynne (38 batting, 94 balls), who played immoderate edgy shots but past settled down nicely implicit the people of time.
The Proteas took dense roller successful the greeting which indicates that initially it would play good and past rapidly commencement crumbling by the commencement of the 3rd day.
The Barsapara way became a quintessential 22 yards from the throwback epoch wherever it flattened retired considerably making India’s 2 digit spinners Washington Sundar (0/45 successful 21 overs) and Ravindra Jadeja (1/47 successful 18 overs) look pedestrian done the 2nd morning.
What became a occupation for the digit spinners was deficiency of zip disconnected the aboveground making it comfy for the batters.
Muthusamy defended good connected the front-foot and besides played immoderate flowing drives.
It is not known whether Indian squad absorption and their information expert had done immoderate homework connected Muthusamy, who arsenic precocious arsenic 2nd Test successful the preceding bid against Pakistan scored 89 not retired successful a winning origin and enjoys an mean of 46 positive successful the accepted format.
He did past by going for DRS erstwhile helium was adjudged limb earlier disconnected Jadeja’s bowling arsenic the TV replays showed that the shot had touched the gloves.
The champion accidental for India aft Verreynne and Muthusamy cautiously saw retired Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj’s archetypal spell was Kuldeep Yadav’s variations connected a dilatory and unresponsive deck.
But dissimilar archetypal day, Kuldeep wasn’t getting the drift successful his archetypal spell of 5 overs and Pant replaced him with Washington, who was rendered ineffective from the start.
Scoreboard
South Africa 1st innings: Aiden Markram b Bumrah 38 Ryan Rickelton c Pant b Kuldeep 35 Tristan Stubbs c Rahul b Kuldeep 49 Temba Bavuma c Jaiswal b Jadeja 41 Tony de Zorzi c Pant b Siraj 28 Wiaan Mulder c Jaiswal b Kuldeep 13 Senuran Muthusamy not retired 50 Kyle Verreynne not retired 38 Extras: 18 (b-8, lb-7, nb-3)
Total: 316/6 successful 111 overs
Fall of wickets: 1-82, 2-82, 3-166, 4-187, 5-201, 6-246
Indian bowling: Jasprit Bumrah 22-9-43-1, Mohammed Siraj 23-4-73-1, Nitish Kumar Reddy 4-0-21-0, Washington Sundar 21-4-45-0, Kuldeep Yadav 23-4-72-3, Ravindra Jadeja 18-2-47-1.
