India vs South Africa 2nd T20I Highlights: Stubbs leads SA to six-wicket victory despite Chakravarthy fifer
- 11:12 PM IST, Nov 10 South Africa beat India by three wickets!
- 11:08 PM IST, Nov 10 South Africa need 13 to win off the last two overs!
- 10:56 PM IST, Nov 10 GONE! Bishnoi strikes now, SA down to their last three wickets
- 10:37 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! MILLER GONE NEXT BALL, 5 FOR CHAKRAVARTHY!
- 10:34 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! CHAKRAVARTHY GETS KLAASEN AGAIN!
- 10:26 PM IST, Nov 10 GONE! Wicket No.3 for Varun Chakravarthy!
- 10:09 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! Hendricks castled by Varun!
- 10:05 PM IST, Nov 10 Powerplay ends, South Africa 34/2 in 6 overs
- 10:00 PM IST, Nov 10 GONE! Instant impact from Chakravarthy once again
- 9:46 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! Arshdeep strikes in his 2nd over
- 9:35 PM IST, Nov 10 Now for the South African chase…
- 9:17 PM IST, Nov 10 India 124/6 in 20 overs
- 8:45 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! Rinku is gone
- 8:29 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! Axar run out at the non-striker's end!
- 8:28 PM IST, Nov 10 10 overs done, India 62/4
- 8:14 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! SCREAMER FROM MILLER!
- 8:13 PM IST, Nov 10 End of powerplay, India 34/3 in 6 overs
- 7:56 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! That's that for Suryakumar Yadav!
- 7:43 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! Abhishek Sharma falls to Coetzee now
- 7:34 PM IST, Nov 10 OUT! 2 centuries and a duck for Samson!
- 7:31 PM IST, Nov 10 The players walk out!
- 7:29 PM IST, Nov 10 No rain so far since the toss...
- 7:17 PM IST, Nov 10 One change for South Africa
- 7:11 PM IST, Nov 10 No changes for India!
- 7:04 PM IST, Nov 10 TOSS TIME!
- 7:00 PM IST, Nov 10 Captains walking out for the toss
- 6:57 PM IST, Nov 10 Pitch report at St George's Park
- 6:44 PM IST, Nov 10 This day, 33 years ago - a historic India vs South Africa match
- 6:35 PM IST, Nov 10 Aiden Markram struggling
- 6:31 PM IST, Nov 10 No Gautam Gambhir in India's dugout
- 6:22 PM IST, Nov 10 An international debut possible today…
- 6:13 PM IST, Nov 10 Arshdeep close to eclipsing Bhuvnesnwar
- 5:46 PM IST, Nov 10Gerald Coetzee hits the ground running
- 5:31 PM IST, Nov 10 South Africa's floundering form
- 5:19 PM IST, Nov 10Sanju Samson smashing the door down
- 5:08 PM IST, Nov 10India close to making it 12 consecutive wins… again
- 4:57 PM IST, Nov 10 South Africa full squad
- 4:48 PM IST, Nov 10 India full squad
- 4:39 PM IST, Nov 10 Hello and welcome!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I Highlights: Varun Chakravarthy's five-wicket haul seemed to have put India in the driver's seat despite being restricted to a score of 124/6. However, Tristan Stubbs and Gerald Coetzee took pacers Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan to the cleaners in the death overs and powered South Africa to victory. South Africa have levelled the four-match series 1-1....Read More
Chakravarthy dismissed Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller off consecutive balls to complete his five-wicket haul in a spell that threw South Africa into disarray despite chasing only 125. Chakravarthy was backed up well by the rest of the Indian bowlers and it put the visitors in the driver's seat going into the death overs of the Proteas' innings.
South Africa were on the money after captain Aiden Markram won the toss and chose to bowl first and restricted India to a score of 124/6 in the second T20I in Gqeberha. India have since made a good start to defending the low target, with Arshdeep Singh and Varun Chakravarthy striking in the powerplay and the latter striking in the eighth over as well.
Hardik Pandya earlier tried to get going after a slow start but could only finish unbeaten on Marco Jansen started with wicket-maiden and the Proteas went on to take three wickets in the powerplay, including that of India captain Suryakumar Yadav. India went on to lose half their side before reaching 75 by the time the 12th over came around.
India vs South Africa LIVE: South Africa beat India by three wickets!
India vs South Africa LIVE: Tristan Stubbs hits the winning runs and South Africa have levelled the series 1-1! He pulls the last ball of the 19th from Arshdeep to the square leg fence and that is that. It is a sell-out crowd here and they are a cock-a-hoop. The bands are making a din, the stands are bouncing. South Africa looked on top in the first innings, and they looked down and out when Chakravarthy dismissed Klaasen and Miller off consecutive balls. And then they turned it around again. Sets us up nicely for the third T20I that will be played in Centurion on Wednesday.
India vs South Africa LIVE: BACK TO BACK FOURS! SA need just 5 to win now
India vs South Africa LIVE: Wow, this stand has wiped India off the plate here after that Chakravarthy spell. Stubbs clobbers the first ball in front of square for a four, and then drives the second ball away from his body, it takes an edge and runs behind to the boundary again!
South Africa need 5 to win off 10!
India vs South Africa LIVE: South Africa need 13 to win off the last two overs!
India vs South Africa LIVE: Coetzee with back to back fours off the first two balls of the 18th over bowled by Avesh Khan. He muscles the first ball down the ground and then sends the second over cover. Four more runs in that over and that makes it 12 in it. Arshdeep returns for the 19th, it looks like Axar is not bowling at all today. Is that a mistake from India?
Stubbs is on strike, he has scored 31 in 35 in a valuable innings here.
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 112/7 in 18 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: 12 runs in the 17th over! 100 up for South Africa
India vs South Africa LIVE: Stubbs off strike second ball and then Coetzee smashes the third ball over the bowler's head, in fact over everyone's head, onto the roof at St.George's Park. A single off the fifth ball and then Stubbs sends the last ball to the extra cover boundary.
South Africa need 25 to win off the last three overs
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 100/7 in 17 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: Arshdeep to bowl the 17th
India vs South Africa LIVE: South Africa need 37 to win off the last 24 balls now. This is no longer a small run chase, scoring at the rate that South Africa are required to at the moment is quite a task on this pitch. Interestingly, Suryakumar is not bringing in Axar Patel, it is Arshdeep Singh who will bowl the 17th over.
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 88/7 in 16 overs, need 37 to win from 24 balls
India vs South Africa LIVE: GONE! Bishnoi strikes now, SA down to their last three wickets
India vs South Africa LIVE: Big slog sweep from Simelane and he misses the wrong 'un completely. It had been 13 balls since the last boundary and so this was a bit of a release shot. But the smalls sneaks through the gate and takes Simelane's stumps. South Africa down to their last three wickets now.
Simelane b Ravi Bishnoi 7 (10)
IND vs SA Live Score: SA 86/7 in 15.4 overs, need 39 to win from 26
India vs South Africa LIVE: Into the last five overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: If you thought that this would be a walk in the park for South Africa, think again. As many as three wides from Hardik Pandya in the 15th over makes it nine runs off it but no boundaries. Stubbs is on 23 off 29 balls, Simelane on six off seven balls.
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 84/6 in 15 overs, need 41 to win from 30 balls
India vs South Africa LIVE: Stubbs ends 3-over boundary drought
India vs South Africa LIVE: Bishnoi bowling his third over in the 14th, Simelane gets off strike first ball and then Stubbs hits the second ball along the ground past short third for a four. Three more singles in that over, Stubbs on 20 off 26, Simelane on three off four.
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 75/6 in 14 overs, need 50 to win from 36
India vs South Africa LIVE: OUT! MILLER GONE NEXT BALL, 5 FOR CHAKRAVARTHY!
India vs South Africa LIVE: Varun Chakravarthy has thrown South Africa into disarray here. He goes around the wicket for Miller, gets the ball to drift in and it beats the batter, takes the stumps. Varun Chakravarthy's maiden international five-wicket haul. He had been out of the team for three years before this series and what a comeback he has made here.
Miller b Chakravarthy 0 (1)
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 66/6 in 12.2 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: OUT! CHAKRAVARTHY GETS KLAASEN AGAIN!
India vs South Africa LIVE: Varun Chakravarthy is bowling out in the 13th over and he has got arguably the biggest fish of them all, once again. Klaasen goes for a biggie first ball of the 13th, ends up holing out at long-off. That is wicket No.4 for Varun Chakravarthy. He is turning it around.
Klaasen c Arshdeep b Varun 2 (3)
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 66/5 in 12.1 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: GONE! Wicket No.3 for Varun Chakravarthy!
India vs South Africa LIVE: And there goes Jansen! Length delivery and it is a goognly fifth ball of the 11th, Janse does something of a half heave through thin air as the ball sneaks between his bat and body and takes the stumps.
Jansen b Chakravarthy 7 (10)
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 65/4 in 11 overs, need 60 to win in 54 balls
India vs South Africa LIVE: 10 runs in the 9th over!
India vs South Africa LIVE: In a low-scoring chase such as this one, overs like these are gold dust for the batting side. Ravi Bishnoi bowls for the first time in the ninth over, Jansen gets off strike with a leg bye off the second ball and then Bishnoi fires the third ball wide down the leg side. Samson does well to stop that from running behind in fact. The batters run three off the next two balls and then Jansen pulls the fifth ball to deep backward square leg for a four. He then runs a leg bye last ball, Jansen is on five off six, Stubbs on seven off eight balls.
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 55/3 in 9 overs, need 70 to win from 66 bal
India vs South Africa LIVE: OUT! Hendricks castled by Varun!
India vs South Africa LIVE: Pitches up the third delivery of the eighth and Hendricks hits a four, then he sends in a googly and Hendricks is gone. The delivery kept drifting in, Hendricks played for a turn that wasn't there and the ball takes his stumps. Well, well, well, India are making South Africa sweat here.
Hendricks b Varun 24 (21)
South Africa 44/3 in 7.4 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: Powerplay ends, South Africa 34/2 in 6 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: Well India haven't allowed South Africa to get away really. Reeze Hendricks has scored 17 off 15, Tristan Stubbs at the other end on one off two. Now while South Africa did take three wickets in the powerplay, the real damage was done in the middle overs when they didn't allow the batters to hit a boundary for more than five overs.
India vs South Africa LIVE: GONE! Instant impact from Chakravarthy once again
India vs South Africa LIVE: Markram gone without troubling the scorers too much once again. Chakravarthy bowling the last over of the powerplay and he strikes very early in his spell once again. He drifts the second ball in from wide of the crease and beats Markram's big slog with the googly. The stumps are rattled.
Markram b Varun 3 (8)
South Africa 33/2 in 5.2 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: OUT! Arshdeep strikes in his 2nd over
India vs South Africa LIVE: There is the early wicket that Arshdeep takes almost all the time. Slower delivery from Arshdeep fifth ball of the third, Rickleton with a big heave across the line. He ends up picking out Rinku Singh at deep backward square.
Rickelton c Singh b Arshdeep Singh 13 (11)
IND vs SA Live Score: South Africa 22/1 in 2.5 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: 9 runs in the 2nd!
India vs South Africa LIVE: Hendricks pulls Avesh in front of square third ball and then the last ball is edged between slip and short third. Avesh left frustrated a little bit there and South Africa have got off to a very good start in this chase. Hendricks on eight off five, Rickelton on eight off seven.
South Africa 16/0 in 2 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: Seven runs in the first over
India vs South Africa LIVE: Three dot balls to start off with and then Rickelton slaps the fourth ball past cover for four. The batters then run three off the last ball.
India vs South Africa LIVE: Now for the South African chase…
India vs South Africa LIVE: Reeza Hendricks brought back into the squad and taking his place at the top of the order ahead of Aiden Markram, He has Ryan Rickleton at the other end ready to face Arshdeep Singh.
India vs South Africa LIVE: Will the Indian bowlers do what the Proteas did?
India vs South Africa LIVE: What troubled the batters against the pacers in the powerplay was the movement Jansen, Coetze and Simelane got off the seam. Now if the Indians manage to do the same, they can make this seemingly measly chase quite difficult for South Africa.
India vs South Africa LIVE: India 124/6 in 20 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: Pandya manages to get a boundary off the last ball of that over and that takes India's score just above a run a ball. He finishes unbeaten on 39 off 45 balls, Arshdeep at the other end on seven off six. Jansen finishes with figures of 1/25. South Africa need 125 to level the series.
India vs South Africa LIVE: Just three runs in the 19th!
India vs South Africa LIVE: Not the way Pandya hoped this would go. Arshdeep manages to get off strike second ball. He then tells Arshdeep to enjoy the show from the non-striker's end but he is unable to get a single run for himself after that. The only ones that do come are from a wide off the fourth ball and a bye that the batters run off the last. Jansen to bowl the 20th now. Pandya has scored just 33 runs in 39 balls!
IND vs SA Live Score: India 118/6 in 19 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: 14 runs in the 18th! Pandya gets going at last
India vs South Africa LIVE: The only problem at the end of all that is that Arshdeep Singh will be on strike for the first ball of the 19th over. The first ball from Jansen was short of a length, Pandya powerfully punches it past cover for a four. He hits the next ball straight to deep midwicket and turned down the single. Hardik then gets under the third ball and sends it soaring over cover for a six. The next two balls are dots and then Pandya ramps the last ball to the boundary. He moves to 33 off 35, Arshdeep on six off four.
IND vs SA Live Score: India 115/6 in 18 overs
India vs South Africa LIVE: Into the last three overs of the innings now...
India vs South Africa LIVE: Three wides in that 17th over from Coetzee and then Pandya smashes a yorker length delivery fifth ball for four. He takes a single next ball and keeps strike. Pandya has scored just 19 runs in 29 balls and he would be looking to explode now. Jansen to bowl the 18th, and presumably 20th.
IND vs SA Live Score: India 101/6 in 17 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: SIX! Arshdeep with India's first boundary in 35 balls
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Arshdeep dents Peter's figures with his last ball of the match. He shuffles accross the pitch and wallops it square leg side for a six. First boundary since the 10th over for India.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Rinku is gone
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: That was the 31st ball without a boundary and so Rinku had to go for it. He does, big top edge and the fielder at short fine leg takes an easy catch. First wicket for Peter in his final over of the match. Maharaj had bowled out in the previous over as well.
Rinku Singh c Coetzee b Peter 9 (11)
India 87/6 in 15.2 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: More than four overs without a boundary for India
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Just four runs in the 14th over by Peter and that makes it 24 balls without a boundary now for India. Pandya is on 10 runs off 19 balls at the end of that over, Rinku Singh at the other end on seven off seven. The dots and the wickets are all hurting India at the moment.
India 80/5 in 14 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Axar run-out at the non-striker's end!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: South Africa appeal and the umpire goes downstairs but Axar is walking already! He knows he is out. A horrible way to go and India's slide continues. Peter returns for the 12th over, Pandya hits the fifth ball straight down the groun. The bowler gets a finger to it and it then hits the stumps. Replays show that Axar was well out of the crease.
Axar Patel run out (Peter) 27 (21)
India 70/5 in 11.5 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: 10 overs done, India 62/4
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Axar does well to pick a googly last ball from Nqabayomzi Peter in the 10th and beats long on for a four off the last ball of that over. He has moved to 25 off 19 and he is looking quite good here. Hardik Pandya at the other end has scored two runs in four balls.
IND vs SA Live Score: India 62/4 in 10 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: OUT! SCREAMER FROM MILLER!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Aiden Markram strikes with the last ball of his first over thanks to an absolute beauty of a catch by David Miller at extra cover. Miller is standing quite close in order to cut that single, well ahead of the line of the bowler's crease. Varma goes for an inside-out cover drive, Miller flings himself to his right with the right hand out and plucks it.
Tilak Varma c Miller b Markram 20 (20)
India 45/4 in 8 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: End of powerplay, India 34/3 in 6 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Axar with possibly the shot of the series first ball from Simelane, a lofted straight drive over the bowler's head for a four. Then he punches the third ball back over the bowler's head as well for another four. Two more runs to make it 10 runs off the last over of powerplay.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Tilak with the first six of the day
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Coetzee overpitches the third ball of th fifth over, Tilak breaks those wrists of his and flicks it wonderfully behind square for the first six of the day. Three more runs in that over and Tilak has scored 12 runs in as many, he has Axar Patel at the other end who has scored a run in one ball.
IND vs SA Live Score: India 24/3 in 5 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: OUT! That's that for Suryakumar Yadav!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Well this is a nightmare start for India. They have lost three wickets in the powerplay and the latest of those is their best. SKY comes down the track early, Simelane sends in a yorker and it strikes him full on the pads. Looks as plumb as they come and both batters feel the same, SKY walks off.
Suryakumar Yadav lbw b Simelane 4 (9)
India 15/3 in 4 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Just 5 runs in the third over
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: A lot of seam movement for Marco Jansen. Tilak Varka tries to defend the first ball, stays on the line but it nips away from him. Then he charges down the pitch and sends the next ball at length past mid-off for a four. The next two balls are played to deep midwicket. Then Varma defends the fifth ball to cover. Jansen then bowls a bouncer that is too high over the head and that is a wide, gets an edge off the last ball and it goes to short third safely. Figures of 1/5 in Jansen's first two overs.
India 11/2 in 3 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Abhishek Sharma falls to Coetzee now
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Abhishek hit the first ball of the over, and the first ball he faced in this match, for a four. Then an appeal for caught behind off the fourth ball that the umpire gave but Abhishek succesfully reviewed. That was a short one, Coetzee stays on that length fourth ball and digs the fifth one in as well. Abhishek pulls the latter, top edge and Jansen takes an easy catch at short fine leg.
Abhishek Sharma c Jansen b Coetzee 4 (5)
India 5/2 in 1.5 overs
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Jansen starts with a wicket-maiden!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Wow what a start this is for South Africa. Suryakumar threw his bat at the first ball that he faced and missed it completely. Markram does brilliantly to stop the ball at mid-off by Suryakumar and then Jansen beats his big lofted drive last ball. No runs and a wicket, a dream first over for any team.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: OUT! 2 centuries and a duck for Samson!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Samson backed away early to the second and third balls of the over, Jansen cramped him up first time around and then he hits the top of leg stump with his second. Hundred, hundred and duck for Samson.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: The players walk out!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: All right the sun is properly out. Sanju Samson opens with Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen starts the attack for South Africa.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: No rain so far since the toss...
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: It just dripped down for less than 10 seconds just when Pommie Mbangwa started the toss ceremony. It is actually a little sunny and dry since then. In fact, it is very pleasant conditions for cricket in Gqeberha today.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: One change for South Africa
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Aiden Markram says that South Africa have brought in Reeza Hendricks for bowling all-rounder Patrick Kruger.
South Africa XI: Ryan Rickelton, Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram(c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen(w), David Miller, Marco Jansen, Andile Simelane, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Nqabayomzi Peter
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: No changes for India!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: It is quite typical of India to not change their team throughout the series and they are sticking to that despite conditions potentially being different today.
India XI: Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Avesh Khan
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: TOSS TIME!
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: South Africa have won the toss again and they have chosen to field, again. And it is drizzling just when Aiden Markram was announcing his decision.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Captains walking out for the toss
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Aiden Markram was first to reach the middle, Suryakumar Yadav joined him shortly thereafter and the two captains exchange team sheets. Suryakumar seemed a little confused at something and it looked like Markram cleared it out for him.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Pitch report at St George's Park
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Shaun Pollock and Ashwell Prince on the pitch report today. A bit more grass than usual but the pitch looks nice and firm. Seam bowlers will enjoy it but there is always something for the spinners in Gqeberha. More than anything else though, it is a good batting pitch. There is a stiff breeze and it is overcast.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: This day, 33 years ago - a historic India vs South Africa match
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: It is quite fitting that India are facing South Africa today. Back in 1991, India faced South Africa for the first time in international cricket. It was also South Africa's first match after being readmitted into international cricket following the fall of apartheid. It was an ODI game at the Eden Gardens and India won it by three wickets.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Aiden Markram struggling
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Captain Aiden Markram had been struggling since the before the 2024 T20 World Cup final and the impact of that defeat doesn't seem to have done him any favours. Markram scored just 201 runs in 14 T20Is at an average of 16.75 and a strike rate of 118.23 before the start of this series. He has scored more than 25 runs in an innings just once all year. In the first T20I, he fell for just eight runs in the first over of the South African innings.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: No Gautam Gambhir in India's dugout
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Just a reminder that you won't be seeing Gautam Gambhir today, or throughout this series. The Indian head coach will be travelling to Australia for the Border-Gavaskar before the end of this series. His former India teammate and NCA chief VVS Laxman is filling in for him, as he has so many times for Gambhir's predecessor Rahul Dravid.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: An international debut possible today…
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: India had gone with three spinners in Durban but that might not be the case today considering how the conditions generally are in Gqeberha. We could see one of those spinners make way for Ramandeep Singh, who is a very handy medium pacer apart from being a good option as a finisher.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Arshdeep close to eclipsing Bhuvnesnwar
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Arshdeep Singh's devastating powerplay overs have been integral to India's winning run. Arshdeep has taken 33 wickets at an average of 18.12, with the best bowling figures of 4/37. He is just five wickets away from breaking pace veteran Bhuvneshwar Kumar's record of most wickets by an Indian bowler in T20Is during a single calendar year. Bhuvneshwar had taken 37 wickets in 32 matches at an average of 19.56, with the best figures of 5/4 in 2022.
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Gerald Coetzee hits the ground running
India vs South Africa 2nd T20I LIVE Score: Gerald Coetzee was by far the most impressive South African player in the first T20I. He was as fiery as ever, hit the deck hard and extracted good bounce. The pitch at St George's Park tends to be good for that kind of bowling. While his teammates were getting smashed everywhere, Coetzee provided a semblance of stability for SA whenever he bowled, ending with figures of 3/37.