South Africa have (again) proved to themselves that they can "mix it with the best" after winning their first Test in India in 15 years, in conditions they described as providing "a different experience" to what they are used to.

Careful to stress that he doesn't "have a problem with wickets like this", South Africa's coach Shukri Conrad preferred to focus on what it meant to have triumphed over both the surface and the opposition. "There was prodigious turn, and the Indian quartet of spinners just don't give you anything. You throw Jasprit [Bumrah] in there with a new ball and when it starts reverse-swinging, both him and [Mohammed] Siraj are obviously world-class," Conrad said at the post-match press conference. "It makes our victory even sweeter that we were able to contend with a

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