Team India had to face defeat in the second T20 match against South Africa. Team India, which scored big with explosive batting in Durban, collapsed for just 124 runs in Port Elizabeth. South Africa also had to struggle to reach here but still achieved the target in 19 overs. Although the failure of the top order of Team India was a major reason for this defeat, but the intelligence of Hardik Pandya also cost the team, who scored the maximum runs but also made mistakes in the last overs, due to which the team was unable to add a few more runs to the score. Missed.

Batting first, the Indian team quickly lost the wickets of explosive batsmen like Sanju Samson, captain Suryakumar Yadav and Rinku Singh. Only 4 wickets had fallen for 45 runs, after which Hardik Pandya came to the crease. Meanwhile, Akshar Patel scored runs quickly by hitting some shots but Hardik Pandya was seen struggling. Then, with Akshar being run out and Rinku Singh's wicket also falling, the entire responsibility fell on Hardik, who hit the first boundary of his innings on the 28th ball.

What did Hardik say to Arshdeep?

There were not many batsmen to stay at the crease with Hardik and Arshdeep Singh came to the crease with him from the 16th over. In such a situation, the entire responsibility of scoring runs was on him. Hardik also hit some shots but still it was not as per requirement. Then something happened in the 19th over, which later became a reason for criticism of Hardik. Arshdeep took 1 run on the second ball of this over and Hardik came on strike. It was here that Hardik told Arshdeep to now stand at the other end and enjoy the show.

This thing came on broadcast through stump mic and everyone heard it on TV. Now what Hardik meant when he spoke was that Arshdeep should keep watching him scoring boundaries and enjoy it, but exactly the opposite happened. Hardik could not score a single run in the next 3 balls and kept the strike with him by taking 1 run of leg bye on the last ball. Then the same thing happened in the 20th over and Hardik could not hit any boundary in the first 4 balls, while refusing to run singles 3 times.

Team India's loss

In the end, Hardik hit 2 runs on the 5th ball and a four on the last ball, but in this round, Team India lost many runs. It was not that Arshdeep was a very experienced batsman but while batting first, every run is important and anyway Arshdeep had scored 7 runs on 6 balls which included a six. Now if Hardik had rotated the strike then perhaps some more runs would have been added to the score and Team India would have avoided defeat. Hardik scored only 39 runs in 45 balls.