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SA 'A' finish tour on losing note

Cape Town - Axar Patel completed an outstanding all-round match by bowling India 'A' to victory by an innings and 81 runs over South Africa 'A' on the final day of the unofficial four-day Test series at the Krishnagiri Stadium in Wayanad.

India thus win the series 1-0 after the first match was drawn.

India declared overnight with a first innings lead of 157 runs and then bowled South Africa out in the morning session for 76 with Patel returning the outstanding figures of 6-6-0-4.

This followed his five-wicket haul in the first innings and his third highest score in the Indian innings of 69 not out. His match bowling aggregate was 9/92.

Stiaan van Zyl and Quinton de Kock were the only players to reach double figures in the South African second innings.

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