During an interview with The Hindu at Newlands, on the eve of the second Test, South Africa coach Shukri Conrad spoke of how the wicket was going to turn in the latter part of the match and that he was expecting India to play both R. Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.
Ashwin wasn’t picked, while Jadeja’s left-arm spin was not required. And there was no latter part of the five-day match: the game was over in four-and-half sessions.
It proved the shortest completed match in Test history. The wicket was one of the fastest too.
