Delhi: South Africa registered a big victory of 174 runs in the second match of the three-match ODI series played between South Africa and Ireland at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Friday. With this victory, the African team has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. South Africa, batting first, had scored 343 runs for 4 wickets in 50 overs, in response to which Ireland’s team collapsed for 169 runs.
South Africa took revenge from Ireland, defeated badly in the first ODI, ‘De Kock 2.0’ played a stormy innings
Star wicketkeeper batsman Tristan Stubbs performed brilliantly for the green jersey team and played an unbeaten inning of 112* runs in 81 balls. During this, he hit 8 fours and 3 sixes and completed his century in just 75 balls. This was the first century of Stubbs’s ODI career. 24-year-old Stubbs, who was a part of Delhi Capitals (DC) in the Indian Premier League (IPL), scored 378 runs in 14 matches in IPL 2024. Now it will be interesting to see whether Delhi Capitals retains him for IPL 2025 or not.
Apart from Stubbs, Kyle Verne played an inning of 67 runs, while Ryan Rickleton (40 runs), Rassie van der Dussen (35 runs) and captain Temba Bavuma (35 runs retired hurt) also made important contributions. Viaan Mulder scored 43 runs in 34 balls. Tristan Stubbs was chosen player of the match for this performance.
South African bowlers also performed brilliantly
If we talk about bowling, Lizard Williams took maximum 3 wickets for South Africa, while Lungi Ngidi and Bjorn Fortin took 2 wickets each. Apart from them, Otniel Bartman, Ndile Phehlukwayo and Viaan Mulder got 1 wicket each.
At the same time, Craig Young scored the maximum 29 runs while batting for Ireland. The third and final ODI of the series will be played on this ground on 7 October.
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