New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- the same India side that has beaten South Africa in four of their last six Twenty20 meetings could not chase down 124 at home.

Simon Harmer took four wickets in each innings of that Test. Eight days later at Guwahati he took six more, and India lost by 408 runs, the heaviest defeat by runs in their Test history. Harmer finished the two matches with seventeen wickets and the player of the series award.

What follows is every completed innings between the two sides from the 2024 T20 World Cup final to the Super 8 meeting of February 2026, with the batting and bowling figures that decided each one. The Eastern Herald keeps a separate dated timeline of the same period for readers who want the chronology rather than the ...