2nd T20 Match, India in South Africa, February 21st, 2018

Posted by Bhuvnesh Aggarwal on February 26th, 2018

MaukaMauka - The second International T20 Match between India and South Africa is took place on Supersport Park, Centurion SA. The match started at 9:30 PM according to the Indian Standard time. South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first. India started with their opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma. But Mr Sharma is not going with the series, he was bowled LBW on the Junior Dala ball. After that Suresh Raina joined Shikhar Dhawan and they both had done partnership of 54 runs. In the fourth over there was fall of Shikhar Dhawan wicket by JP Duminy ball. Further Indian Captain Virat Kohli joins Suresh Raina but he also goes quiet early  after giving his wicket to Junior Dala ball. This was the second wicket of the Junior Dala.

Munish Pandey was coming next and played an unbeaten 79 runs for India. This is the 2nd Fifty of Munish Pandey in international T-20. Around the 10th over the Suresh Raina got LBW on the ball of Andile Phehlukwayo. Now the Helicopter shot hitter of India i.e. MS Dhoni joins the Munish Pandey. MS Dhoni Smashes a Fiery Fifty with only 28 balls and strike rate 185.71. They both shared 98 runs for the fifth wicket in just 9.2 over’s to take India to the commanding total. In fact, his 27-ball half-century is also the joint-fastest by an Indian batsman against South Africa in T20 Internationals. Dhoni’s unbeaten 52-run knocked – that included four boundaries and three sixes –was his second-highest Twenty20 score, second only to his 56 against England in Bangalore last year.

Team India kept a total of 188 runs by losing 4 wickets.

Then after a small break, Proteas- South Africa’s batsman came to pitch. Started with Batsman’s Reeza Hendricks and JJ Smuts to chase the target. In the third over JJ Smuts fall off by  seamer Jaydev Unadkat. All had eyes on Heinrich Klassen, he really played a sensational series as he slammed his maiden fifty and scored a brilliant 69 of 40 balls before edging it to M S Dhoni on a delivery from Jaydev Unadkat.
Chahal the only spinner from team India had a bad day. In one of his over he gave 23 runs. Seems he need to put more of Spin or turn a ball on his fingers.

Later David Miller joins the captain JP Duminy and early goes to pavilion on the ball of Hardik Pandya. In the end 6th player Farhaan Behardien joins JP Duminy and wins the match by 6 wickets. Now the series are levelled 1-1.

Now we all are waiting for a wonderful match (South Africa vs India, 3rd T20 Newlands, Cape Town) to be played on Feb 24, Sat that will decide the winner of t20 series.