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South Africa Celebrates Victory by Crushing India in 2nd Test

India suffered one of the worst defeats in India playing in their second test against South Africa in Ahmedabad.

South Africa crushed India by an innings and 90 runs with two days to spare despite defiant half centuries by Saurav Ganguly (87) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (52).

Earlier on the third day, South Africa declared their innings at 494/7 with a lead of 418 runs.

In the first innings India had a paltry score of 76 all out in less than 20 overs - a shame for the home team.

South Africa's pace bowlers did not let the home team play in either innings. Motera wicket is well known to support pacemen and that is exactly what the visitors did.

At one point, home team seems stabilizing a bit with Ganguly and then Laxman, and then Dhoni. But that was just a temporary brake.

Posted at 10:51AM Apr 05, 2008 by Lara in General  |  Comments[0]

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