South Africa and India’s second Test match finished as the shortest test after just 642 balls (107 overs), Test cricket created history in Cape Town.
Australia and South Africa’s Test match finished after 109.2 overs, or 1932 balls.
India bowled South Africa out for 176 in the second inning to square the two-match series. They needed just 12 overs to reach the necessary 78.
South Africa won the first Test match in Centurion by an innings and thirty-two runs.
The result of the shortest test match in terms of balls
| Year | Match | Balls | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | India beat South Africa by seven wickets | 642 | Cape Town |
| 1932 | Australia beat South Africa by an innings and 72 runs | 656 | Melbourne |
| 1935 | England beat the West Indies by four wickets | 672 | Bridgetown |
| 1888 | England defeated Australia with 21 runs | 788 | Manchester |
| 1888 | Australia beat England | 792 | Lord |
Yashasvi Jaiswal, the Indian opener, dominated the first few overs of the match by hitting a hard short mark and scoring 28 runs off of 23 deliveries. But Nandre Burger stopped him at the border.
Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen removed Shubman Gill (10) and Virat Kohli (12), respectively, and Shreyas Iyer sealed the win with a boundary off his lone scoring hit.
At sixteen, Captain Rohit Sharma was still undefeated.
With 106 runs from 103 balls, Markram contributed to South Africa being bowled out for 176 before lunch.
Jasprit Bumrah cut Markram to 71 runs after a batter edged the ball and the wicketkeeper failed to make an easy catch above his head. Bumrah received a score of six out of 61 in the end.
In the two innings where Markram faced pitches with a lot of seam movement, speed, and unique bounce, no other teammate scored more than fifteen runs.
With seventeen fours and two sixes, including one that went over the fence and into a railway line past square leg, he concluded his innings against Prasidh Krishna.
Mohammed Siraj, who is 29 years old, tried to hit another long ball at mid-off, but Sharma eventually caught the opener.
Siraj was six for fifteen in India’s triumph on Wednesday before noon, when South Africa collapsed to 55 all out.
Twenty-three wickets were lost on the opening day of play.
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