Krishnagiri: An excellent bowling performance, highlighted by left-arm spinner Axar Patel's supreme figures of 4-0, helped India A win the second and final four-day cricket match by an innings and 81 runs at the Krishnagiri Stadium here on Friday and thus clinch the two-match series 1-0.

In reply to visitor’s first innings score of 260, India declared at 417/8 in the second innings on the third and penultimate day and then bundled out South Africa A for just 76 runs in their second innings on Day 4 on Friday.