News Update
Tezzbuzz|11-11-2024
The second T20 match of the 4-match T20 series between India and South Africa (IND vs SA) was played today in Kaibra, where after winning the toss, the South Africa Cricket Team decided to bowl first and after that After coming to bat first, the Indian team scored 124 runs thanks to the short innings of Hardik Pandya, Tilak Verma and Axar Patel, in response to which South Africa won the match by 3 wickets. Made his name and the series stands tied at 1-1.
After losing the toss and coming to bat first, the Indian team had a very bad start, India lost its first 3 wickets very quickly. Sanju Samson, who scored consecutive centuries in the last 2 matches, could not even open his account today, while Abhishek Sharma also went away after scoring only 4 runs.
Today captain Suryakumar Yadav also could not do anything special and could score only 4 runs. After this there was a short partnership between Tilak Verma and Axar Patel. There was a partnership of 30 runs between the two, where Tilak Verma was out after scoring 20 runs in 20 balls. Axar Patel was a bit unlucky today, he scored 27 runs in 21 balls, but was run out.
On the other end, Hardik Pandya continued to play a slow innings, Hardik Pandya remained on the field till the end and scored only 39 runs in 45 balls, due to which the Indian team scored 124 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.
The South African team, which came to chase the target given by India (IND vs SA), looked very helpless in front of Varun Chakraborty. South Africa had a good start against India's 124 runs. There was a partnership of 22 runs for the first wicket, which was broken by Arshdeep Singh by dismissing Ryan Rickleton by 13 runs.
After this, Varun Chakraborty played his game, no batsman could last long in front of Varun Chakraborty. He sent captain Aiden Markram to the pavilion for 3 runs, after which Reeza Hendricks, who was proving to be a threat to India (IND vs SA), was dismissed on the score of 24 runs.
After this, he dismissed Marco Jansens for 7 runs, Heinrich Klaasen for 2 runs and David Miller for 2 wickets without even opening the account. After this Ravi Bishnoi showed Silmane the way to the pavilion. However, after this Gerald Coetzee came to bat and he batted brilliantly and along with Tristan Stubbs scored 19 runs in 9 balls and defeated South Africa by 3 wickets.
When the Indian team scored only 124 runs and gave a target of 125 runs to South Africa, the defeat of the Indian team was considered almost certain, but Varun Chakraborty had put the match in India's bag, but when Varun Chakraborty's over ended. So instead of giving the over to Akshar Patel, the captain went to the fast bowlers.
Both the fast bowlers of India (IND vs SA) Avesh Khan and Arshdeep Singh gave away runs with both hands and in the end Team India lost the match. The Indian team could have won this match, but Axar Patel not bowling was the biggest reason for India's defeat.