Host South Africa has won the second match of the 4-match T20 series between India and South Africa. In this second match of the series played in Gkebarha, the Proteas team defeated India by 3 wickets and leveled the 4-match ODI T20 series at 1-1.
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South Africa won the second T20 match by 3 wickets
In the second match of the T20 series, Team India came to bat first after losing the toss. The Indian team could not perform well against the South African bowlers and could only score 124 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. After this, in response to the target of 125 runs, South Africa achieved the target by losing 7 wickets in 19 overs.
Indian team could score 124 runs while playing first
South African captain Aiden Markram was again successful in winning the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. Sanju Samson, the century winner of the last match for India, could not even open his account. So captain Suryakumar Yadav and Abhishek Sharma also returned to the pavilion after scoring 4-4 runs. After this, Tilak Verma played an inning of 20 runs and Akshar Patel played an inning of 27 runs. In the end, amidst falling wickets, Hardik Pandya scored unbeaten 39 runs in 45 balls, taking the team’s score to 124 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs.
South Africa achieved the target in the 19th over after losing 7 wickets.
The South African team set out to achieve the target of 125 runs. The start was not special for them too and Arshdeep Singh dismissed Ryan Rickleton, after this Varun Chakraborty dismissed Reeza Hendricks and captain Aiden Markram and took 3 wickets at the score of 44. After this, the Proteas team continued to suffer setbacks and lost 7 wickets at the score of 88. But after this Gerald Coetzee supported Tristan Stubbs and together they took the team to the target in the 19th over. Stubbs scored 47 not out and Coetzee scored 19 not out. Varun Chakraborty took 5 wickets for 17 runs for India.
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