After scoring a pair in Mohali, Shikhar Dhawan has tightened his game and backed his defence, but the challenge to convert the disciplined efforts into big innings still remains

Throughout this series, never mind the pitches earlier, India have made it seem like South Africa are batting against 18 fielders, and not nine

Ajinkya Rahane had to fight off memories of his forgettable debut in Delhi to resurrect India from a position of vulnerability. In doing so, he struck the only century of the series so far

The common man has taken over the most exclusive of clubs, thanks to an outsider and under retired Delhi High Court judge Mukul Mudgal's charge, the first day of the India-South Africa Test was a sound success

Thanks to Ajinkya Rahane, India have posted the highest total of the series, and his average in India is past 22 now. That absolute failure of a series, which looked likely, can wait despite such tough conditions

Straight off the bat, India have been coy about the pitches rolled out for the series. They have refused to answer direct questions, comparing the Tests against South Africa with whatever seems convenient to them

The ICC match officiating team's "poor" rating of the Nagpur pitch has had no impact on Virat Kohli's outlook towards the playing surfaces

On paper this series resembled India's tour of England in 2011. The No. 1 side in the world went in with big expectations and came out bruised

R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have taken the bulk of India's wickets against South Africa, but Amit Mishra has played an important role too, chipping in with key strikes at important junctures

Wriddhiman Saha has slowly started settling into the India Test line-up, showing fight with the bat and sharp keeping skills

South Africa went more than nine years and 15 away trips without losing a series, but it took just seven days of cricket to end the streak

On a pitch that turned batting into a lottery, South Africa failed to buy their ticket

The ninth-shortest non-abandoned Test ended just before noon on the fifth day, with wet conditions and intermittent drizzle washing out a fourth day in a row

Any hopes India had of forcing an unlikely result were blown away after another day's play was washed out in Bangalore

South Africa were a day closer to saving the Test after play on third day was called off at 11.30am

South Africa received an unexpected hand to give them a shot at saving the Bangalore Test

India showed they were not one-trick ponies by choosing to field on what turned out to be a proper Test-match first-day pitch and bowling out South Africa for 214

AB de Villiers analyses his batting and hits several theories out of the park

Batsmen from both sides made a turning Mohali surface look worse than it actually was, but the cricket it produced was one-dimensional. A series of this stature deserves a greater variety of skills to be on display

Top fitness, a bit of batting, sharpness in the field, and deadly accuracy when bowling... that has been Ravindra Jadeja's recipe for success in Test cricket previously, and it was on show once again in Mohali