"I am not a stats man, I am a win man," Simon Harmer said when asked by Murali Kartik in the post-match presentation about his returns: his 8 for 51 is the best by a South Africa spinner in a Test in India and second only to Dale Steyn's 10 for 108 back in 2010.

The other South Africans at Eden Gardens could say the same. They started the third day staring at a crisis. They fought their way out of it with the bat, led by Temba Bavuma and Corbin Bosch, and then had Marco Jansen first and then Harmer running through the opposition.

All India had in front of them was a target of 124. They only got 93 .

"A game like this, you can't dwell into it too much, because... we should have been able to chase this score, but eventually the pressure kept on building in the second innings

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