India quashed South Africa’s resistance right after the lunch interval on the fifth and final day to win the first Test and become the first Asian team to win a Test match at the SuperSport Park in Centurion.
Coming into the final day, India needed to take six wickets while South Africa needed 211 runs to win the game. The unbeaten batsman Dean Elgar and Temba Bavuma led a strong fightback with a rapid first hour where they hit boundaries but Jasprit Bumrah once again put his hands up and dismissed Elgar.
Quinton de Kock could not last long although he hit a brisk 21 and handed Mohammad Siraj his second wicket of the innings.
Mohammad Siraj produced two jaffas to dismiss Wian Mulder and Marco Jansen and Ravichandran Ashwin came into the picture with the last two wickets of Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi.
India won the game by 113 runs and have taken a 1-0 lead in the series. They will now wait for South Africa to respond in the remaining two games of the series to be played in Johannesburg and Cape Town.