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South Africa vs India, 2nd T20I at Gqeberha, Dec 12, 2023,
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Printed on: Dec 13, 2023
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South Africa chased a revised goal of 152 in a rain-affected second T20I towards India on the St George’s Park, Gqeberha on Tuesday, December 12. Despatched into bat after shedding the toss, the Males in Blue recovered from a disastrous begin to publish 180/7 in 19.3 overs when the rain got here down and prevented India’s innings from being accomplished. Set a revised goal of 152 in 15 overs, South Africa went onerous at India’s bowlers and chased down the goal in 13.5 overs with 5 wickets in hand.
Batting first, India misplaced each their openers with out scoring. Yashasvi Jaiswal minimize a supply from Marco Jansen straight to backward level. Shubman Gill was then trapped lbw by Lizaad Williams. Skipper Suryakumar Yadav (56 off 36) and Tilak Varma (29 off 20) lifted India, including 49 for the third wicket. Simply when Varma was trying good for an enormous rating, the left-hander lofted a catch off Gerald Coetzee to deep third man.
Suryakumar then discovered one other in a position ally in Rinku Singh (68 not out off 39), who carried on his spectacular kind with the bat. The duo added 70 for the fourth wicket in fast time. Suryakumar struck 5 fours and three sixes earlier than hitting Tabraiz Shamsi (1/18) to long-off.
Jitesh Sharma (1) perished cheaply, however Rinku supplied the large hits on the loss of life, clubbing 9 fours and two sixes in his innings, one in all his maximums cracking the glass of the commentary field. Ravindra Jadeja chipped in with 19 off 14 balls.
Within the DLS-revised chase, South Africa’s openers acquired off to a cracking begin, reaching 42 in 2.4 overs. On the following supply, although, Matthew Breetzke (16 off 7) needed to stroll again to the pavilion, having been run out following a disastrous combine up with Reeza Hendricks.
Hendricks (49 off 27) and Aiden Markram (30 off 17), nevertheless added 54 for the second wicket at blistering tempo to place South Africa in command. The partnership ended when Markram was caught at deep sq. leg off Mukesh Kumar’s bowling. Hendricks missed out on a half-century, chipping Kuldeep Yadav to cowl.
David Miller perished to Mukesh after scoring a quickfire 17, however Tristan Stubbs (14 not out) and Andile Phehlukwayo (10 not out) took the Proteas previous the end line with seven balls to spare.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
