November 27, 2015 5:07 PM

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India win Nagpur Test by 124 runs against South Africa, clinch series

India today won the third Cricket Test against South Africa at Nagpur by a margin of emphatic 124 runs and also clinched the four-match series Two-Nil. On the third day of the penultimate match of the series at the VCA stadium, needing to score 310 runs for a win, the visitors were all out for 185 in their second innings, 52 minutes after the Tea session. Ravichandran Ashwin recorded his career-best figures of seven for 66, while Amit Mishra claimed three wickets for 51 runs. Ashwin finished with a superb match haul of 12 for 98. This was Virat Kohli's first Test series win as a Captain on home soil and also marked an end to South Africa's track record of not losing a Test series away from home for nine long years. The fourth and final Test between the two teams will commence in Delhi on December 3.

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