Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bowl first in the second T20 match between India and South Africa in Guwahati. The Indian team, who came to bat first, set a huge target of 238 in front of South Africa. The South African team could only score 221 runs. In this match, the Indian team took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series after registering a 16-run win.
Main highlights:
Lokesh Rahul and Rohit Sharma became the highest run-scorer for India while playing together.
Suryakumar Yadav completed his 1000 T20 runs, becoming the third Indian to touch this figure the fastest.
Virat Kohli completed 11,000 runs in T20. India won the first T20I series against South Africa in India.
Arshdeep got the Indian team off to a good start by taking two wickets in his very first over.
David Miller scored an unbeaten 106, his highest T20 score
Player of the Match:
Lokesh Rahul – He got Team India off to a good start, and scored a half-century after a good partnership for the first wicket with Rohit Sharma. Rahul scored 57 runs in 28 balls, in this innings he hit 4 sixes and 5 fours. Rahul was adjudged the player of the match for this brilliant innings.
Strongest Performer of the Match:
David Miller: He batted well chasing the target but couldn’t get the target. David Miller scored an unbeaten 106. In this innings of 47 balls, Miller hit 7 sixes and 8 fours.
Temba Bavuma and Quinton de Kock opened the innings as South Africa’s opening pair. Arshdeep dismissed Temba Bavuma (0) and Rally Russo (0) in his first and second overs of the innings. The match was stopped in the third over due to floodlight failure, the match was stalled for about half an hour.
After the initial blows, Markram and Quinton de Kock kept the wickets till the powerplay. The two shared a partnership of 46 runs, Aiden Markram was dismissed for the third wicket. After the end of the powerplay, Axar Patel, who was bowling the first over, bowled Markram. Markram tried to defend with a foot forward, but the ball took a turn and blew the wickets. Markram scored 33 runs in 19 balls.
David Miller, who came after this, stopped the series of wickets with Quinton de Kock, but could not increase the pace of runs in the middle order in the way that was needed. David Miller and Quinton de Kock played unbeaten innings, but they could not lead the team to victory. South Africa’s team remained 17 runs away from the target.
David Miller played a brilliant inning, he scored an unbeaten 106 in 47 balls. In this innings, Miller hit 8 fours and 7 sixes. Quinton de Kock scored 69 runs in 48 balls. De Kock hit 3 fours and 4 sixes.
Lokesh Rahul and Rohit Sharma open the innings, Rahul starts with a boundary off the very first ball. Parnell came to bowl the second over, and on the third ball of this over, Rohit hit a four backward. In this shot, the ball hit the finger of Rohit’s right hand, after which the match had to be stopped for some time. Physio came, sprayed Rohit’s finger and Rohit got ready to play.
Rohit Sharma and Lokesh Rahul shared a 97-run partnership for the first wicket. Team India got the first blow in the form of Rohit Sharma, he was dismissed after scoring 43 runs. Rohit Sharma wanted to hit a big shot on the fifth ball of Keshav Maharaj’s 10th over, but the ball did not get the distance and Stubbs took a simple catch.
When Rohit and Rahul were batting, a snake appeared in the stadium during the 7th over. The match had to be stopped for some time, but the groundsman caught the snake and took it out. The match started again.
Lokesh Rahul completed his half-century by hitting a six, but after that, he lost his wicket. He was out lbw off Keshav Maharaj, on appeal, the umpire declared out. The review took but in vain. Cleared out on TV. Lokesh Rahul scored 57 runs in 28 balls, in this innings he hit 4 sixes and 5 fours.
Suryakumar Yadav led the innings along with Virat Kohli and started batting in a fast fashion as soon as he arrived, he meanwhile completed his 1000 runs in his T20 International career, he is the third batsman to score the fastest international T20 runs. Surya rained runs on Kagiso Rabada in the 15th over, in which he hit 2 fours and 2 sixes.
Suryakumar Yadav’s half-century was the second fastest half-century by an Indian batsman in T20 Internationals. Virat Kohli was 1 run away from his half-century, he scored an unbeaten 49. In 28 balls, Virat hit 1 six and 7 fours in this innings. Team India scored 237 runs in the allotted 20 overs for the loss of 3 wickets.
