Ind Vas Sa 2nd T20: South Africa defeated India in the second T20 International. The match is going on. Host South Africa defeated India in the second T20 International, played at St. George’s Park in Gkebarha on Sunday. Defeated India by 3 wickets. Team India lost the toss and batted first and scored 124 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. South Africa achieved the target of 125 runs by losing 7 wickets in 19 overs. Tristan Stubbs played an unbeaten inning of 47 runs. He was the top run scorer of this low-scoring match.
At one time the African team was struggling after losing 7 wickets at the score of 86 runs. The pitch was helping the spinners and Varun Chakraborty had taken 5 wickets. Despite this, captain Surya kumar Yadav decided to bowl the death overs with fast bowlers. This decision proved costly for the team and Stubbs and Gerard Cootzie (19 runs on 9 balls) made an unbeaten partnership of 42 runs on 20 balls for the 8th wicket. Here Indian spinner Akshar Patel has three overs left.
Match Analysis
Chasing the target of 125 runs, South Africa started cautiously. The team had lost only one wicket at the score of 32 runs after 5 overs. From here Varun Chakraborty took 5 wickets and sent South Africa on the backfoot. Here the host team’s score became 66/6. But, Tristan Stubbs, who came to bat at number-4, stood at one end, he remained till the end and scored 47 runs and led the team to victory. For this performance he received the Player of the Match award.
- Top order failure: After losing the toss and coming to bat first, Team India’s top order flopped badly. Sanju Samson could not even open his account, while Abhishek Sharma and captain Suryakumar Yadav were out after scoring 4-4 runs. The team had lost the first 3 wickets at the score of 15 runs only.
- The tail started only after the fall of 6 wickets: After the initial wicket fell early, Tilak Verma, Akshar Patel and Hardik Pandya took over the innings. India lost 6 wickets for 87 runs, here Arshdeep Singh came to bat, whom Hardik could not trust. He left many singles, due to which the team could score only 31 runs in the last 4 overs. Here Hardik was left alone at last.
- Surya’s weak captaincy: Despite the small target, India had made a comeback in the match. The team had reduced South Africa’s 7 wickets for 88 runs in 16 overs. Here, there were 3 overs left for spinner Akshar Patel, who had given only 2 runs against Stubbs in the first over. In place of Akshar, Surya made the pacers bowl.
- South Africa lost: the 7th wicket in the 16th over, here Gerald Cootzie came to bat. He hit 2 fours and a six against Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan. His batting made the job of Stubbs at the non-striker’s end easier. Cootji scored 19 runs on 9 balls. He had spent only 11 runs in the last 2 overs against Hardik in the first innings. Due to which India could not even make a big score.
Varun Chakraborty
Team India almost lost the match after scoring 124 runs in the first innings. The team looked weak even in the first 5 overs of the second innings, then Varun Chakraborty came to bowl. Who took a wicket in every over and put the home team on the backfoot by taking 5 wickets in the spell. Varun ended his spell in the 13th over, after which South Africa’s score was 67/6. However, even his performance could not lead the team to victory.
Match Report
Team India, who came to bat first after losing the toss, lost 3 wickets in the powerplay. After 6 overs the team could score only 34 runs. Sanju Samson could not even open an account. Abhishek Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav were out after scoring 4 runs each.
The team could score only 124 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. From the team, Hardik Pandya scored 39 runs, Akshar Patel scored 27 runs and Tilak Verma scored 20 runs. The rest of the batsmen could not even touch the 10 run mark. Marco Janson, Gerald Cooties, Andile Simelane, Aiden Markram and N Peter got 1 wicket each from South Africa. A batter runout also occurred.
