The second match of the Test series between India and South Africa will be played on 3 January 2024 in Cape Town. India played 6 Tests at the Newlands ground in Cape Town and not a single team won. Whereas South Africa played 24 matches on this ground and won 45.8% i.e. 10 matches.

Australia has had the most successful overseas team at Newlands Stadium, winning 71% of its Tests here. England and New Zealand have got success on this ground but no team from Asia has been able to win a single match here. Now Asia’s top team India will return for the Test series against South Africa from January 3 in Cape Town itself. The team is trailing 0-1 in the 2-Test series.

Only 11 out of 59 tests were done.
So far 59 Test matches have been played at the Newlands ground in Cape Town. The team batting first 23 times and the team batting first 25 times won. Only 11 test doctors are living on this ground. There are very few test doctors living in Cape Town. After the year 2000, 28 tests were conducted here and results came in 23. Zoom 5 test doc.

England-Australia won 10-10 tests in Cape Town
Foreign teams from England and Australia are performing well in Cape Town. Australia played 14 tests here, they won 71.4% of the tests i.e. 10. The most successful team is in Cape Town, Australia, they have the highest percentage of telecast teams here even compared to the home South African team. England won 10 out of 21 Tests in Cape Town, while New Zealand won once in 5 Tests.

South Africa has not lost to any Asian team here
South Africa played in Cape Town for the 59th time, winning 27 and losing 21. The team purchased 11 credit cards but never saw an Asian team win. The team did not lose here even against West West and Zimbabwe.

South Africa played 19 Tests in Cape Town against West Indies, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India. The team won 16 and only 3 tests were drawn. After the year 2000, South Africa played 28 Tests here, they won 19 and lost 4. The rest remained doctors.

That means South Africa is in excellent form on this ground and is somewhat better than the Asian teams.

India looking for first win at Newlands
Team India searches for its first win at the Newlands Stadium in Cape Town. The team played 6 test matches here, lost 4 and had only 2 telecom drivers. India in the 2nd Test with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Mohammed Sultan as one of the leaders in Sultanpur, India.

The team lost twice to Virat Kohli, while the team also lost once each to Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar.

Rabada took 42 wickets in Cape Town
South African fast bowlers create havoc in Cape Town. Four former pacers of the team have taken more than 50 test wickets here. The name of Kagiso Rabada is also included in India’s assistant squad, who has taken 42 wickets on this ground. He is wicket wicket here on every 21st ball. Rabada also took 7 wickets in the first test.

Elgar named in Newlands 2nd century, he will play his last test
Four former South African batsmen have scored more than one thousand runs at Newlands. In the real squad, the team’s stand-in captain Dean Elgar has scored 741 runs by scoring 2 centuries. He will also play the last Test of his career in Cape Town, after this Test he took the lead. It was Elgar who played an important role in India’s Test match by playing an inning of 185 runs in the first Test of the final series.

Pant scored a century in Cape Town, he was not part of the squad
The performance of Indian batsmen on the Cape Town ground was nothing special. Sachin Tendulkar could not get any batsman more than 200 runs. Sachin has scored 489 runs with 2 centuries in 4 tests here.

Rishabh Pant had scored a century in the last tour but he is not a part of the permanent Indian team. Virat Kohli, included in the squad, scored 141 runs in 2 matches played in Cape Town. He is a fifty year old here. In the second Test too, the responsibility of Indian batting will once again remain on the shoulders of Kohli. He played innings of 38 and 76 runs in the first test.

Musician has taken 10 wickets at Newlands
There is an edge in terms of fast bowlers in the Newlands ground, despite this only 3 Indian bowlers have been able to take more than 10 wickets here. The batsman included in the squad has taken 10 wickets in only 2 tests here. He had also taken 5 wickets in an innings on the same ground on the last tour.