A new world record has been set in the final match of the two-match Test series being played between South Africa and India (IND vs SA) in Cape Town. South Africa’s team scored 55 runs in the first innings, the Indian team managed 153 runs in the first innings and South Africa collapsed for 176 runs in their second innings. With this, a record was established in Test cricket, which had never been seen before.
A record set at Lord’s in 1888 was also overturned.
Actually, for the first time in the centuries-old history of Test cricket, three innings of a Test match have ended before 600 balls. So far, the first three innings were finished in the Lord’s Test match between England and Australia in 1888 in 604 balls, but in the Cape Town Test match, a total of 30 wickets fell in just 570 balls. This is historic in itself. These figures have been shared by famous statistician Kaustubh Gudipati on his X handle.
It has been close to 147 years since Test cricket officially started, but never have three innings of a Test match ended in so few balls. Only twice in Test cricket were the first three innings of a Test match finished in less than 700 balls. Even in Cape Townene itself, the first three innings in 2011 ended in 705 balls.
In such a situation, it can be clearly said that this pit of Cape Town is not good.
Ends the first three innings in the fewest balls
570 balls – South Africa vs India, Cape Town, 2023
604 balls – England v Australia, Lord’s, 1888
656 balls – Australia v South Africa, Melbourne, 1932
705 balls – SA v Australia, Cape Town, 2011
708 balls – England v South Africa, Leeds, 1907
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