Home blues: Outbatted, outbowled, outsmarted and outplayed yet again
Guwahati, Nov. 27 -- This wasn't a defeat, this was abject surrender. On a fifth day pitch that was worn down but still had runs in it, against a team that didn't feature Kagiso Rabada but were lionhearted. With barely any preparation, leapfrogging from one white-ball series to another, a result everyone feared for... has happened.
Outbatted, outbowled, outplanned, pretty much outsmarted by every metric, India can't even tell themselves they didn't see it coming.
This defeat has deja vu written all over it, 2000 being the last time India had lost 0-2 to South Africa at home. But as it turned out, there was light at the end of that tunnel within a year. When will another one come, if it comes at all?
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