RSA VS IND - 2nd Test, India tour of South Africa, 2017-18

What goes around indeed comes around. It was in 2015 when India, playing sans Tendulkar at home for the first time, baked South Africa off their top Test ranking on customized panic dustbowls. And now, in 2018, it's South Africa, who in conditions that cannot be more unknown to them, have actuated Kohli's first Test series loss as full-time captain. Now over to Wanderers to see if this Indian unit has a heart. This is Pratyush Sinha taking leave alongside Pradeep, Vineet Anantharaman, Kumar Abhisekh Das and Shashikant Singh. Until it ceases to be 2-0, it's ta-ta!

Match summary: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That's a famous Madonna line. You can see why Ishant was preferred over Bhuvneshwar on this kind of pitch, but you earn bad karma for dropping a guy who picked six wickets and faced the most number of balls for you in the last Test. Rahane's absence continued to hurt India's batting, who firstly failed to get a lead after South Africa's toss advantage was all but nullified by the bowlers, and then they folded in the last innings, expectedly on a pitch friendlier than it should have been. That Pandya run-out in the first innings denied India a lead, and then de Villiers took it beyond India with a ridiculously sublime 80 in the second innings.

Deepu's stat corner:

**Cheteshwar Pujara became the first Indian player to be dismissed run out in each innings of a Test.

India losing seven wickets for less than 100 runs 3+ times a series:
4 vs Aus in Aus, 1947/48
3 vs Eng in Eng, 1952
3 vs Eng in Eng, 1967
3 vs NZ in Ind, 1969/70
3 vs WI in Ind, 1983/84
3 vs SA in SA, 2017/18

**Lance Klusener is the only other South African bowler to take a five-fer on his first Test against India. 8/64 in Kolkata in 1996. Like Ngidi, it was Klusener's debut Test and the effort also came in the second innings.

Best figures on debut for SA:
8/64 L Klusener v Ind, 1996
7/29 K Abbott v Pak, 2013
7/63 Alf Hall v Eng, 1923
7/81 M de Lange v SL, 2011
7/95 Gobo Ashley v Eng, 1889
6/38 P Pollock v NZ, 1961
6/39 LUNGI NGIDI v Ind, 2018

Most successive series without a defeat for India:
11 Oct 2008 - Jul 2011
10 Jun 2015 - Dec 2017(now)
07 Jan 1993 - Nov 1995

India's series results in SA:
1992/93 Lost 0-1
1996/97 Lost 0-2
2000/01 Lost 0-1
2006/07 Lost 2-1
2010/11 Drew 1-1
2013/14 Lost 0-1
2017/18 Lost 0-2*

Ngidi - Player of the Match: "(Walks in to chants of Lungi! Lungi!) The moment hasn't really sunk in. I am very chuffed with my performance and I'm very happy at the moment. Been a quick turnaround for me. I was in good nick in franchise cricket. I came out here to try pretty much what I could do. The support was great at my home ground. It's a great moment. I tried to keep it simple: hang it outside off. There was a bit of movement off the deck and one nipped in and got the wicket. It wasn't the fastest Centurion pitch. Adapting to conditions was important. We had to deal with the conditions we were given. We pretty much put them under pressure, tried to keep them quiet and that worked."

Harsha Bhogle: What a wonderful and hugely impressive debut for Lungi Ngidi

Du Plessis - captain, South Africa: "It took a lot of hard work over the last five days. We were on top pretty much most of the times. One of the harder Tests, given batting and bowling was tough. We were amazing in the field. After Day 1, we were very disappointed. In that last 45 minutes of Day 1, we gave India a sniff and the chat after that was that we are gonna need a bit of character over the next four days. We were short in the first innings. We needed to get 400, especially from the position we were in, but for me the vital time was the second innings. We kept pushing the scoring and we knew that anything over 250 would be challenging. So the guys were grinding hard to get over 250. Special performance by Ngidi. He's a great guy and we welcome him into the team. Amazing future that lad has. I look at the person's personality the first thing and he's a wonderful human being. I see him carrying this national attack for a few years. Morne's catch was better than AB's (chuckles). Morne is going to tell us a lot about that catch over the next few days. You can tell from his celebrations. Long strides like that across the field is a beautiful sight."

Kohli - captain, India: "Yeah (the wicket gave us our best chance). We thought the wicket was really flat. Quite surprising. I told the guys the wicket looks different to what it looked before toss. I thought it was our chance to put some runs on the board. Especially after SA lost wickets in the first innings, we should have capitalized. We failed to get a good partnership and take the lead. We have let ourselves down from the first game into the second. The bowlers have done the job but the batsmen have let the team down again and that's why we stand here. I want to leave everything on the field, for my country, for my team. That's the way I play. 150(sic) means nothing right now that we have lost the series. If we had won, even a 50 or a 30 would have mattered more to me. Having not won the game, personal milestones don't matter to me. As a team, you want to win collectively. We tried but we weren't good enough. South Africa were better than us, especially in the fielding department, and that's why they are the winners. And they deserve to be."

Now the time's ripe for presentations.. Stay put. The quotes should be fun

Harsha Bhogle: A much anticipated series and it ends in an easy win for South Africa. I thought this was India's best chance but how wrong that was!! Forget winning away, does anyone compete away any more..

It was always going to be a question of 'when' on day five, but India, somehow, have intently made it a matter of 'how'. Yes this pitch was a playing ground for busy players, but Pujara was not trying to be busy with that attempted third run early in the day. His run out, second in the match, becoming the first India player with two run outs in a game, set the tone. Parthiv, Pandya, Ashwin - all weren't out to grubbers at all. That's where India got it wrong: they believed they could win but also didn't. Rohit looked pretty during his 47 but beauty isn't the pavement to success. Well, not for all people. Rohit isn't one of them, more so in Test cricket.

12:16pm local: Ngidi pumps his fists as he jolts up the stairs, where the Indian team is waiting in a bee-line. A lot of pats on his back from India's support staff too. That's good to see. Now he's in the dressing room and shows his cap to the crowd. A debut can't get better than this.

Lungi Ngidi to Bumrah, out Caught by Philander!! South Africa bring India's run of nine series wins to a screeching halt! Bumrah is early into the push and chips it to Philander at short mid-off, giving Ngidi his sixth wicket of the innings. It's all over. Bumrah c Philander b Lungi Ngidi 2(6)

Lungi Ngidi to Bumrah, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Harsha Bhogle: AB de Villiers snaffles up amazing catches in the slips, runs from gully to the boundary to run Pujara out after Ngidi's save and then catches this off Rohit.

Lungi Ngidi to Bumrah, no run, back of a length outside off - far outside off! - and Bumrah wants to swat it over mid-wicket say. Nah, not happening

Rabada to Ishant, FOUR, full outside off, Ishant's feet don't move but the hands do. Slices this through point and collects a boundary

Rabada to Ishant, no run, now the other length. Ishant arches back to evade and tumbles on the ground.. This is fun!