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Stand-in skipper Rishabh Pant labelled the 2-0 series defeat to Temba Bavuma’s South Africa as “little disappointing”. India lost the second Test of the series at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati, by a huge margin of 408 runs, their worst defeat by runs in Test cricket history. Pant gave credit to the Proteas and wants his side to stick as a team, have a clear mindset.
“It's little disappointing. As a team we need to get better. We need to give credit to the opposition. We need to take the learning and stick as a team. They dominated the series but at the same time, you can't take credit for granted. We needed to be clear with our mindset,” Pant told the broadcasters after the heavy defeat on Day 5.
“In the future, we need to learn from it and get better. They played better cricket, cricket demands that you need to capitalise as a team. And we did not do that and that cost us the whole series. The positive will be focussing in our own plan and that's what we will take from this series,” the wicketkeeper-batter added.
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On Day 5, Pant had to walk out to bat in the first session as Dhruv Jurel fell cheaply after the wicket of nightwatchman Kuldeep Yadav. He hit a six and four each before Simon Harmer got an edge off his bat that landed in Aiden Markram's hands at first slip. He had a disappointing series as a batter, scoring 49 runs from four innings.
Another collapse, only Jadeja scores fifty
On Day 5, India were bowled out for 140 in 63.5 overs. Harmer was the pick of the bowlers again, taking six wickets from 23 overs. Sai Sudharsan tried to block it out, facing 139 deliveries to score 14 runs. Ravindra Jadeja showed fight with an 87-ball 54.
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