Missing the services of star batsmen AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis, South Africa was bundled out by India for a mere 118 runs in the second ODI at Centurion. Yuzvendra Chahal returned with career-best figures of 5 for 22, while Kuldeep Yadav (3/20) accounted for three wickets.
It took the Indian bowlers all of 32.2 overs to bowl the hosts out for their lowest ODI total at home. Incidentally, it was also the lowest ODI total at this venue after Zimbabwe's 119 against South Africa in 2009.
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Chahal and Yadav, who shared eight wickets for 42 runs between them, became only the second spin pairing to pick up three-plus wickets each in the same innings.
West Indies' Carl Hooper and Keith Arthurton had previously shared six wickets at Bloemfontein in 1999.
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Chahal also returned the best figures for any Indian spinner against South Africa in South Africa. The previous best hauls for an Indian spinner was Yuvraj Singh's 4 for 6 versus Namibia at Pietermaritzburg in 2003. He also became only the second Indian bowler to pick up a five-wicket haul in ODIs on South African soil, after Ashish Nehra's 6/23 against England at Durban, also in 2003.
Chahal also became the first spinner to take a five-for against South Africa in South Africa, routing their innings in 135 minutes total.
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Earlier, Aiden Markram became the second-youngest ODI skipper for South Africa.
South Africa made two changes, handing Khaya Zondo his ODI debut for the injured Faf du Plessis. They also included chinaman Tabraiz Shamsi in place of all-rounder Andile Phehlukwayo while India went unchanged.
India got the breakthrough they wanted when Kumar, bowling from changed ends, induced a faint inside edge off Amla. The batsman asked for DRS review but the decision stayed with India. South Africa were placed at 39/1 after 10 overs and their 50 came up in the 13th over.
Chahal immediately came into the attack and struck in his second over as de Kock was caught in the deep. It became two wickets in two balls when Markram (8) played a poor stroke off Yadav in the very next over and was caught in the deep as well, with Kumar taking a well-judged catch.
Four balls later, Miller was bamboozled by Yadav and was caught at slip.
South Africa, by then, had lost three wickets for 0 runs in a space of 6 balls, but the worst was yet to come.
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Zondo (25) and JP Duminy (25) added 48 runs for the fifth wicket to somewhat stabilise the innings.
But the procession began once again when the wrist spinners were brought back in action. Zondo miscued one off Chahal in the 27th over and was caught at midwicket, with Pandya latching on second attempt.
South Africa barely crossed 100 in that over, and then Chahal came with another breakthrough, trapping Duminy plumb LBW.
The Proteas then their last five wickets for 11 runs.
Chahal trapped Morne Morkel (1) LBW as well, while Yadav got rid of Kagiso Rabada (1) with a wrong one, out LBW. Bumrah got on the wickets' tally too, bowling Imran Tahir (0) to complete the hosts' misery.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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