India have had a troublesome WTC so far, winning and losing games, and despite being the most active team in the year and having a good number of home matches, the Indians have failed to retain their position among the top four teams in the ICC World Test Championship points table.
India lost two consecutive Test matches at home and this is the second time after Rohit Sharma’s era that such a feat has happened. Due to their poor chances in the WTC and defeat in the home series, India have lost to the defending champions.
India has suffered its biggest defeat ever at the hands of Proteas on home ground.
India lost this match by a huge margin of 408 runs, making it now officially India’s biggest defeat on home soil and the most humiliating for any team on its home ground. This is India’s biggest ever defeat by a margin of runs in a Test match, which includes both home and away matches.
South Africa has won two of its last three Test matches in the subcontinent and drawn only one match with the Pakistan team. However, by then they had lost 10 of their 13 Tests in the subcontinent from 2015 to 2024.
This series not only marked South Africa’s second Test series win in India, but it also marked the first time that India have lost consecutive Test series at home in the 21st century. Before Gautam Gambhir, India had to face defeat in two series at home against Australia and England in 2004 and 2012.
The last time India lost two consecutive home series was against West Indies in 1983 and then against England in 1984/85. This whiteness symbolizes the second whiteness of India in the 21st century.
Simon Harmer created history on Indian soil as Proteas spinner
Returning spinner Simon Harmer has been a good performer for the Proteas in this WTC. It is the credit of this spinner that the Proteas team dominated India at home. The average of Indian batsmen in the series has been below 16 and for the first time in 30 years, a series has ended without a single century.
Simon Harmer has played 4 matches against India in the subcontinent and has taken 27 wickets with a best average of 15.03. Of these, 17 wickets came in this series alone. He now has the most wickets for South Africa in India and most wickets for South Africa in India in a Test series, surpassing Dale Steyn in both lists.
Harmer averaged 8.94 in the series, behind Courtney Walsh’s average of 8.25 in the 1994/95 series. Harmer has the best average and strike rate among all visiting bowlers who have taken a minimum of 20 Test wickets in India. What was the performance of South Africa’s Player of the Series.
ICC World Test Championship Points Table 2025-27 (Updated)
| Situation | Team | played | won | lost | Drag | dead | score | PCT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 100.00 |
| 2 | South Africa | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 75.00 |
| 3 | Sri Lanka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 66.67 |
| 4 | Pakistan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 50.00 |
| 5 | India | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 48.15 |
| 6 | England | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 36.11 |
| 7 | bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 16.67 |
| 8 | west indies | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 9 | new zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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