The legendary batsman of team India, Sachin Tendulkar, was left gobsmacked by what happened on Day 1 of the second Test between India and South Africa in Cape Town on Wednesday. A total of 23 wickets fell on the opening day of the match as bowlers ran riot, making the most of an extremely helpful Newlands pitch. While many fans and pundits got to see wickets tumble in front of them, Tendulkar missed most of the action as he was in a flight.

Taking to social media platform X, the Master Blaster summed up the Day 1 mayhem as he described how quickly batters were epically dismissed in Cape Town.

Sachin wrote on X, "Cricket in '24 begins with 23 wickets falling in a single day. Unreal! I boarded a flight when South Africa was all out, and now that I'm home, the TV shows that South Africa has lost three wickets. What did I miss?”

After being bowled out for 55 in the first innings, South Africa were 62 for three in the second innings at the close, still 36 runs short of India's first-inning total of 153.