South Africa has defeated India by 135 runs in the second Test at Centurion on Wednesday taking 2-0 lead in the ongoing Freedom Series.

South Africa were all out for 258 in their second innings, thereby posing a target of 287 for India to win. But the Indian team were bundled out for 151 runs. For South Africa, Lungi Ngidi, emerged as the pick of the bowler, taking 6 wickets for 39 runs in the second inning.

Speaking after the match, Kohli said, “We thought the wicket was really flat which was quite surprising. When we went in I saw that the pitch was very different from before the toss. It was our best chance to put some runs on the board especially after South Africa lost wickets in the first innings I thought we could gain momentum from that and we should have capitalised as we were in a position to get the lead at one stage.”

South African skipper, Faf du Plessis, said, “Over the last five days it took a lot of work. This was one of the harder test matches in terms of, you had to put a lot in. Bowling was tough, batting was tough. But over the five days I thought we were pretty much on top most of the time. To wrap it up today the way we did, especially in the field we were amazing.”