IND vs SA: South Africa’s tremendous counterattack, equalizing the series by defeating India in Mullanpur
Overview:
The second match of the 5-match T20 International series between India and South Africa was played in Mullanpur, Chandigarh.
Delhi, In the second match of the 5-match T20 International series being played between India and South Africa, guest South Africa made a strong counterattack and defeated India by 51 runs. With the victory in this match played in Mullanpur, Chandigarh, the series is now leveled at 1-1.
India beat South Africa by 51 runs
Team India, after winning the first T20 match played in Cuttack, decided to field first after winning the toss, but South Africa’s batsmen proved this decision wrong and put 213 runs on the scoreboard. In response to which the Indian team could not even play 20 runs and collapsed on the score of 162 runs.
South Africa had scored 213 runs
After losing the toss, South Africa, who came to bat first, made a bright start. Quinton de Kock was seen in a different mode in today’s match and as soon as he arrived, he counter-attacked the bowlers. After the first wicket fell at the score of 40 runs, captain Aiden Markram supported de Kock fully and together they added 83 runs for the second wicket, although de Kock was unfortunately run out and missed the century. He scored 90 runs in 46 balls with 5 fours and 7 sixes. Apart from this, Denovan Ferreira played an inning of 30* runs in 16 balls and Captain Markram also contributed 29 runs and the team’s score reached 213 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. Varun Chakraborty got 2 wickets for India.
Team India collapsed on the score of 162 runs.
In response to the target of 214 runs set by South Africa, the Indian team had a very poor start and lost 3 wickets at the score of only 32 runs. Gill, Abhishek and captain Suryakumar Yadav could not do anything special. After this, Tilak Verma, who came to bat, batted well, first he rescued the team from the initial shocks with Akshar Patel and later made a good partnership with Hardik. But this was not enough in front of South Africa’s mountain-like score. Hardik looked colorless in this match. After Hardik’s dismissal, Jitesh Sharma played some good strokes and scored 27 runs in 17 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes, while Tilak Verma scored 62 runs in 34 balls with 2 fours and 5 sixes. But Team India lost 5 wickets in the last 5 runs and was limited to the score of 162 runs in 19.1 overs. For South Africa, Otinel Bartman took 4 wickets, while Yansen, Simpala and Ngidi got 2 wickets each.
The third T20 International match of the series between both the teams will be played in Dharamshala on Sunday, December 14.
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