South Africa won the toss and they chose to bowl first in the 2nd T20I against India.
Indian Batters started to struggle from the first over. Last Match centurion Sanju Samson gone for a three ball DUCK. Indian batters started losing thier wickets in the upcoming overs one after another.
After 4 overs, India were just 15 for 3 & they lost Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma and the Skipper, Surya Kumar Yadav.
Tilak Varma and Axar Patel takes the game forward from there.
Everything was going right till that moment. Markram comes to bowl the 8th over and it wasn’t going good. Both Tilak and Axar were trying hard to get boundaries.
It was the last ball of Markram’s first over. The ball was tossed up and Tilak Varma drives it up towards cover but Miller sticks out his right hand and plucks it out of thin air.
Axar Patel showed some promising form, connecting well with the ball, but was unfortunately run out at the non-striker’s end due to an unlucky deflection from Hardik Pandya’s straight drive off the bowler’s hand.
Rink Singh didn’t stay as he departed for 9 runs from 11 balls.
Arshdeep Singh stays strong on the non-strikers end and it was Hardik Pandya who faced most of the balls from then. Arshdeep came in after 15.2 Overs and at that time, Hardik Pandya was just 14 runs from 23 balls.
Middle Order Concern seems to be turned ON for Team India in this Series and it should not continue further.
Hardik was trying to connect the ball and he couldn’t able to connect except few balls. There were few drops in the last over allowed him to stay not out till the end.
At the end of 20 overs, India were 124 for 6 and Hardik Pandya was 39 from 45 balls.
India Innings Scoreboard
Batting:
Sanju Samson b Jansen 0
Abhishek Sharma c Jansen b Coetzee 4
Suryakumar Yadav lbw b Simelane 4
Tilak Varma c Miller b Markram 20
Axar Patel run out 27
Hardik Pandya not out 39
Rinku Singh c Coetzee b Peter 9
Arshdeep Singh not out 7
Extras: (B-1, LB-5, W-8) 14
Total: (For 6 wickets in 20 overs) 124
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-5, 3-15, 4-45, 5-70, 6-87.
Bowling:
Marco Jansen 4-1-25-1,
Gerald Coetzee 4-0-25-1,
Andile Simelane 3-0-20-1,
Keshav Maharaj 4-0-24-0,
Aiden Markram 1-0-4-1,
Nqabayomzi Peter 4-0-20-1.
