The year started with a historic Gabba breach and ended with yet another landmark victory by Team India, now becoming the maiden Asian team to breach Centurion. Team India registered a thumping win in the first Test against South Africa with the help of KL Rahul’s 123 off 260 balls, and Md. Shami’s five-wicket haul in the first innings and Bumrah’s toe wrecking yorkers were some of the stand out performances from the match.
After choosing to bat first, India put on a massive total of 327 runs in 150.3 overs on a bouncing pitch and the hosts replied with mere 197 runs. Md. Shami impressed everyone with his 5-wicket haul in the first innings and got good support from Bumrah and Shardul Thakur with two wickets each. However, the Men in Blue proved why they are the number one side in Test cricket, by bundling down the host at 191 in the second innings.
Twitter was glad about the way the Indian team scripted yet another historic victory and maintained their consistency with overseas wins. SportsTiger has listed out some of the most interesting tweets.
Tutta hai CENTURION ka ghamand !!💯🇮🇳#TeamIndia
— vishal ツ (@vissshalll) December 30, 2021
Centurion is been captured 🇮🇳🇮🇳 #INDvsSA #CapeTown #BCCI #IndianCricketTeam #KLRahul #ViratKohli #BoxingDayTest pic.twitter.com/vO4XugAxcp
— Sultan (@Sultanpatel_13) December 30, 2021
#TeamIndia created a 19 years history at Centurion pic.twitter.com/4P29ubGFLB
— Karthik 1437 (@KarthikSiripur2) December 30, 2021
Gabba. Lord's. Oval. Centurion.
All in just an year. SENA conquered! pic.twitter.com/Mq53VjW034
— Tarique Anwer (@tanwer_m) December 30, 2021
Nothing Just showing you the World's Best Test Cricket Team #TeamIndia 🇮🇳
Historic Win at Centurion #INDvsSA pic.twitter.com/QJEa22QjSg— Anjali ♡ (@imAnjali718) December 30, 2021
2021 Starts with beating Aussies in their fortress Gabba & It ended with defeating Protease in their fortress Centurion 👏Another memorable test win✌️Hopefully this becomes the first series win in SA…
we are the gladiators 🔥 #TeamIndia 🇮🇳💙 #Centurion #IndvsSA pic.twitter.com/SbIUDq9QhT— Vijeswara Rao (@VijeswaraR) December 30, 2021
