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New Delhi: Seamer Marco Jansen wrecked India with his six-wicket haul and put South Africa in the box seat of the second Test in Guwahati on Monday.
His six for 48 as India conceded a 288-run lead after his 93 runs in South Africa's first innings total of 489 have put the home team on the mat.
Of his six wickets five were came from short balls as the Indian batters were unable to counter Jansen's plan on an unhelpful track.
"To be honest, the ball wasn't nipping as much like in Kolkata so we had to figure out a plan. When I got my first wicket (Dhruv Jurel) with a bouncer, we said, 'okay cool, let's see how long this is going to work for' and yeah, it just came off," Jansen said after the third day's action.
Jansen said the Guwahati track was a "sporting one", with equal help for baolwers and batters, provided they apply themselves.
"It's a good wicket to bat on. There's good pace, good bounce if you play the short ball well, you'll score runs and if you bowl well, you'll get wickets," the left-arm seamer said.
"The training facilities here was very much the same or similar to the playing wicket which I think is very nice as a player because you can sort of prepare well. You can wrap your head around how the wicket might play and because of that, you can maximize on your preparation."
Jansen said his 6 feet 8 inch frame was an impediment for him to get to get leg before wickets as he often generate more bounce than other bowlers.
"For me, I've always struggled bowling in India whether it was white ball or red ball. I am still jealous of people who get the ball to nip back because like yesterday, it was a perfect example ball goes over off stump because I'm so tall from a different bowler like KG (Rabada) that's hitting top of off, for example so I've always been jealous of those people where they're a bit shorter than me," Jansen humored everyone at his own expense," he said.
"When there's a wicket with a bit of pace and bounce, then I get to extract more out of it so I just think, especially here I've tried to learn what's going to work for me what's going to help me to perform to the best of my ability.
"It's just one of those days where everything clicks and everything works and as a player, those days you take it and you run," he concluded.
