IND vs SA, Boxing Day Test, Day 3: Burger Brilliance Guides South Africa To Comfortable Win By An Innings and 32 Runs Over Deflated India

Producer: Siddarth Sriram

Dean Elgar's fine form continued as he notched up a fine 150 runs and kept on attacking the Indian bowlers.

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Bowler Marco Jansen also joined in on the scoring and together the pair put up a quickfire 100-run partnership.

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Shardul Thakur finally ended Elgar's dismantling of India as he dismissed him for 185 runs, providing India a much needed breakthrough.

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Jansen on the other hand kept piling the misery on India as he slashed the bowlers for boundaries at will and put up a massive 87*

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Bumrah though entered the attack and cleaned up the SA lower order, to ende their innings at 408 runs, and India trailing by 164 runs.

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But South Africa's bowling attack were equally prepared to wreak havoc as the duo of Burger-Rabada picked off the Indian top-order with ease.

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Debutant Nandre Burger was the star of the show though as he kept menacing India with his variations and his wicket-taking prowess.

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The ever-inevitable Virat Kohli entered to turn the momentum around as he went on the offensive and attacked SA's pacers at will to give India a glimmer of hope.

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But, the likes of Rabada, Jansen and Burger were just too much to handle for the rest of India's batting order as wickets kept falling at regular intervals.

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Kohli though remained unfazed and put up a valiant fifty as he continues to take on the SA bowlers to somehow help India claw their way back into the game.

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But eventually, he also fell victim to Jansen and South Africa wrapped up the win by a comfortable margin of an innings and 32 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

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