South Africa got a crushing defeat at the hands of Australia but India got a big advantage

New Delhi: In the second Test match of the 3-match Test series being played between Australia and South Africa (Australia vs South Africa, 2nd Test), Australia has defeated South Africa by an innings and 182 runs. With this, Australia has won a series against South Africa after 16 years. At the same time, India has benefited a lot from this victory of Australia and its chances of playing the World Test Championship have increased further. In fact, India is currently in second place in the points table of the World Test Championship and Australia is in first place.

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Score

Australia 1st innings – 575/8 declared

South Africa 1st innings – 189
South Africa 2nd innings – 204

With this victory, Australia has made an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the series. Playing first, Australia declared the innings by scoring 578 runs in the first innings in the Boxing Day Test. In response, the South African team was all out for 189 runs in the first innings. After this, Australia called the African team to play the follow-on. After which the team was bundled out for 204 runs in the second innings and lost the match by an innings and 182 runs. In the match, Cameron Green took 5 wickets in the first innings for Australia, while Nathan Lyon took 3 wickets in the second innings.

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It proved to be very beneficial for India in terms of playing the final of the World Test Championship. In fact, Australia ranks first in the points table of WTC with 78.57 percent marks. Whereas India has 58.93 percent points and Team India is in second place. The rest of the teams are far behind India in terms of points. Sri Lanka is at the third position and has 53.33 percent marks. In such a situation, the Indian team has benefited a lot from this defeat of South Africa. The African team has now slipped to fourth place with 50 points.