India beat South Africa by seven wickets at Newlands to level the series 1-1. Shreyas Iyer played the final shot to take India to victory. Earlier, An eventful first session on Day 2 came to an end with India needing 79 runs to win this Test and square the series. Seven wickets fell in the first session, with South Africa bowled out for 176 runs in their second innings.

Aiden Markram scored a splendid 103 on a surface where wickets fell thick and fast. Barring Markram, no other Proteas batter crossed 20-run mark with Dean Elgar (12), David Bedingham (11) and Marco Jansen (11) crossing the single digit.

For India, Jasprit Bumrah bagged six for 61, his ninth five-wicket haul in the Test cricket. Mukesh Kumar (2/56) picked up two wickets, while first innings wrecker-in-chief Mohammed siraj and expensive Prasidh Krishna got one wicket each.

This ground will always hold a special place in my heart. The journey started here, always fond memories. Very happy it went well today. That journey started in 2018 – our bowling unit was experienced and we wanted to make an impact. In India, the spinners do a lot more work. Our team is also going through a transition. Lot of bowlers have been changed, the message is the team, keep fighting. We fought it out in the last game as well. Requires a lot of patience. We are very happy that we were able to do it in this game. I didn’t expect the game to go this fast. We wanted to bat first as well. Test cricket gives you surprises. Great series.