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India vs South Africa 2nd T20 Highlights: Under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, the Indian team is currently playing a 4-match T20 series against South Africa at its home ground. The second match of the series was played on Sunday in Gkebarha, in which the South African team won by 3 wickets. In this way both the teams have reached 1-1 draw in the series.
After losing the toss and batting first, the Indian team set a very easy target of 125 runs. In reply, South Africa won the match by scoring 128 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 19 overs. Meanwhile, Indian spinner Varun Chakraborty took 5 wickets, but the Indian team could not win.
Pandya scored only 9 runs in the last two overs.
A major reason for this is some big mistakes of star all-rounder Hardik Pandya and captain Suryakumar Yadav. Due to this mistake, Team India's Vijayarath got stuck. Like Pandya made a big mistake in batting. In this match, the Indian team lost 3 wickets in just 15 runs. Then the team took charge and scored 115 runs losing 6 wickets in 18 overs.
But despite being on strike in the last two overs, Pandya could score only 9 runs. This is a major reason for the defeat. Many times Pandya did not take a single run and did not give strike to Arshdeep Singh. While Arshdeep hit a six and scored 7 runs in 6 balls.
In the last over, Pandya let the first 4 balls go empty. However, a total of 6 runs were scored by hitting a four on the last 2 balls. But if Pandya had rotated the strike properly in the last two overs, perhaps 10-15 more runs could have been scored. Which could have played an important role in the victory. In this way Pandya became zero from hero. On the other hand, Tristan Stubbs of South Africa gave an excellent strike to bowler Gerald Coetzee. The result was that Gerald scored 19 runs in 9 balls.
Captain Suryakumar made another big mistake
After being given a target of 125 runs, star spinner Varun Chakraborty showed his passion and broke the back of the South African team by taking 5 wickets for 17 runs. Due to this, the African team lost 7 wickets for 86 runs. Then he needed 39 runs in 26 balls to win. When he had only 3 wickets left. During this innings, Surya made a big mistake, due to which the match got lost. Actually, Akshar Patel bowled the 10th over. He gave only 2 runs in this one over. Then Surya did not give his over. The 13th over of the innings was Varun's last over in the match. So far Africa has scored 67 runs for 6 wickets.
From here Surya wanted Akshar to bowl with Ravi Vishnoi and take full advantage of the spin pitch. But this could not happen. Surya bowled the 14th and 16th overs to Vishnoi. Whereas fast bowlers were deployed at the other end. This mistake became very big. If Akshar or the other end had bowled 1-2 more overs then perhaps the result of the match would have been different. While Vishnoi took the 7th wicket in the 16th over.
Arshdeep gave 12 runs each in the 17th over and 12 runs in the 18th over. When Arshdeep lost the match by giving 16 runs in the 19th over. If Akshar had been given the 15th and 17th over, 1-2 wickets would have been expected. But this did not happen.