RSA VS IND - 2nd T20I, India tour of South Africa, 2017-18

South Africa vs India

South Africa won by 6 wkts

RSA -189/4 (18.4)

IND -188/4 (19.6)

PLAYER OF THE MATCH : Heinrich Klaasen

Batter

R
B
4s
6s
SR
64
40
4
3
160
16
10
0
1
160

Bowler

O
M
R
W
ECO
3.4
0
42
2
11.45

That's it from us tonight. Cape Town was where this tour started, and that's where it will finish - with the T20I series on the line. Expect another fun night. I've been Sagar Chawla, and on behalf of Akshay Maanay, Nikhil Jadhav, Rishi Roy, Kumar Abhisekh Das and our scorer Praveen, it's a goodbye!

Couple of stats from BI0$ before he signs off..

- Also only the second time in seven T20Is at Centurion Park, the team batting second has won.

Highest targets chased down by SA:
206 vs WI, Joburg, 2007
200 vs Ind, Dharamsala, 2015 (JP Duminy 68*)
189 vs Ind, Centurion, 2018 (JP Duminy 64*)

Duminy, SA captain: At the toss we spoke about this being a S/F. Way we started with the ball was exceptional. They gained momentum with the last five overs but our batsmen showed composure. Pretty easy win in the end. We tried our utmost to keep with the DLS system. In the end, it worked in our favour because it gave us the freedom. It was raining a bit in our bowling innings as well. We knew we had to set the tone with a good first over. They came at us a bit but it was key to pick wickets in the powerplay. To take down 189 was a pretty good effort. Certainly will be a good crowd for Cape Town. Hopefully we can put up a good spectacle.

Klaasen, MoM: Pretty special, especially at my home ground. It's what you dream of as a young kid. Didn't get such a surface last season with the Titans franchise. You've got to put the bowler under pressure. If you're a one-dimensional player, these guys will figure you out. Comfortable with where my game is at the moment. Enjoying my cricket for the last year and a half.

Kohli, India captain: Tough one for the bowlers. We were looking at 175 with the loss of early wickets. Manish and Raina batted well initially. Manish and MS were outstanding to get to 190. I thought that was a winning total. But the constant drizzle made it difficult from the 12th over onwards. Credit to the SA batsmen. Klaasen and Duminy really batted well. They were very positive. Good from the spectator point of view. You don't want play to be stopped. Once the game was continued in the first innings, we knew it was going to be continued throughout. You don't mind these things. We didn't have problems with that. There was a constant drizzle, wasn't too drastic at any stage. It was fine to play in. Not just the case with the short boundary, the ball travels here anyway. With the drizzle, the wicket settled down. The ball was difficult to grip too. They took calculated risks. They targeted the short boundary and it came off for them. They deserve to win. We expect them to show some fight. They showed the passion which is needed to win games of cricket. They deserved to win tonight.

21:20 Local Time, 19:20 GMT, 00:50 IST: India's bowlers have been truly humbled today, Yuzvendra Chahal in particular. He lived an absolute nightmare out there, with figures of 4-0-64-0. The punishment he took from Heinrich Klaasen played such a huge part in shaping the outcome of this run-chase. India had started off pretty well initially, with Bhuvneshwar and Thakur stifling the scoring. However, in a bid to get ahead of the DLS par amidst the growing drizzle, the manner in which Klaasen unleashed with his maiden T20I fifty stunned India. They just couldn't recover. Seeing how Chahal was having an off-day, should Kohli have tried someone else? Raina perhaps? We'll never know. But well done to the South Africa batsmen. Their two wins on this limited-overs tour have come when they've played without fear. Maybe there's a trick there. Back shortly with the presentations..

Highest targets chased down against India:
200 by SA, Dharamsala, 2015 (JP Duminy 68*)
193 by WI, Mumbai WS, 2016
191 by WI, Kingston, 2017
189 by SA, Centurion, 2018 (JP Duminy 64*)

Surya Sakthivel: "Is India's bowling depending on Bumrah too much or it's just a bad day?" -- Bit of both..

18.4

6

Unadkat to Duminy, SIX, launched over long-on to get South Africa level! 1-1. Full pitched ball, right in the slot, and it disappears. The fireworks go off in the rain

18.3

6

Unadkat to Duminy, SIX, here's the hit, and here's the game for South Africa. Can't lose it from here. It slipped out of Unadkat's fingers and ended up being a pretty high full toss. Duminy swings it into the deep square leg stands

18.2

Unadkat to Behardien, 1 run, another off-cutter, this one's short and wide. Behardien slashes it off the edge to third man. SA one hit away really. Can they get that hit in the 10 balls left?

18.2

Unadkat to Behardien, wide, full and very wide outside off, left alone. Bonus run

18.1

Unadkat to Behardien, 2 runs, slower off-cutter, Behardien heaves and drags it off the inside half wide of deep square leg. Easy two

Jaydev Unadkat [3.0-0-26-2] is back into the attack

Just 16 off 12. It's not over though. Here's Unadkat with his pricey slower balls

END OF OVER 18

10 Runs

RSA: 173 - 4

1 2 1 1 1 4

Farhaan Behardien

13 (8)

Jean-Paul Duminy

52 (38)

SN Thakur

4-0-31-1

17.6

SN Thakur to Duminy, FOUR, ugly slog, it comes off the inside edge and runs away for four. Duminy lost his shape looking to hoick this off-cutter and was a whisker away from chopping it back onto his leg-stump

17.5

SN Thakur to Behardien, 1 run, slower short ball around off, Behardien drags his pull to deep square leg. Bhuvneshwar gets lucky there. It had slipped through his hands, but his foot was behind it

17.4

SN Thakur to Duminy, 1 run, carved off a thick outside edge in front of Bhuvi at deep point. It goes on the bounce to him, falling just short

17.3

SN Thakur to Behardien, 1 run, slower ball outside off, driven to mid-off