India lost by three wickets in the second T20

South Africa defeated India by 3 wickets in the second T20 International. Team India lost the toss and batted first and scored 124 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. South Africa achieved the target of 125 runs in 19 overs for the loss of 7 wickets. Tristan Stubbs played an unbeaten innings of 47 runs. He was the top run scorer of this low-scoring match.

At one time the African team was struggling after losing 7 wickets for a score of 86 runs. The pitch was helping the spinners and Varun Chakraborty had taken 5 wickets. Despite this, captain Suryakumar Yadav decided to bowl fast bowlers in the death overs. This decision proved costly for the team and Stubbs and Gerard Cootzi (19 runs off 9 balls) made an unbeaten partnership of 42 runs in 20 balls for the 8th wicket. Here Indian spinner Akshar Patel had three overs left.

Tristan Stubbs innings snatched the match from India

Chasing the target of 125 runs, South Africa started cautiously. The team lost only one wicket at a score of 32 runs after 5 overs. From here Varun Chakraborty took 5 wickets and put South Africa on the backfoot. Here the score of the host team became 66/6. But, Tristan Stubbs, who came to bat at number-4, stood at one end, he stayed till the end and scored 47 runs to give the team victory. For this performance, he got the Player of the Match award.

Failure of top order: After losing the toss and batting first, the top order of Team India flopped badly. Sanju Samson could not even open the account, while Abhishek Sharma and captain Suryakumar Yadav were out after scoring 4-4 ​​runs. The team lost the first 3 wickets at a score of 15 runs.

Surya weak captaincy: Despite the small target, India had made a comeback in the match. The team had taken 7 wickets of South Africa for 88 runs in 16 overs. Here spinner Axar Patel had 3 overs left, who gave only 2 runs against Stubbs in the first over. Surya got the pacers to bowl in place of Axar.

Gamechanger of the Match

South Africa lost the 7th wicket in the 16th over, here Gerald Cootzi came to bat. He hit 2 fours and a six against Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan. His batting made the job of Stubbs standing at the non-striker end easy. Kootji scored 19 runs off 9 balls. He had conceded just 11 runs in the last 2 overs against Hardik in the first innings. Due to which India could not even score big.

Fighter of the Match Varun Chakraborty

Team India had almost lost the match after scoring 124 runs in the first innings. The team also looked weak in the first 5 overs of the second innings, then Varun Chakraborty came to bowl. Who took wickets in every over and pushed the home team on the backfoot by taking 5 wickets in the spell. Varun finished his spell in the 13th over, after which South Africa's score was 67/6. However, even this performance of his could not make the team win.