Quinton de Kock's 90 powers SA to massive win
Chasing 214, India lost their last five wickets for just five runs and succumbed to a 51-run defeat
Chasing 214, India lost their last five wickets for just five runs and succumbed to a 51-run defeat
Scorer: @Thilak_Rama | Commentator: Ekanth
Another one-sider, one each for team and each team's fans to enjoy. Karthik Krishnaswamy's match report is up here. There will be analysis later on. Do check it out. Thanks for joining us today. Hope you had fun. It's goodbye for now from me, Ekanth, and our scorers, Thilak and Sudeep.
Quinton de Kock, POTM: It's just happening, low and high scores. When I do get going, I try and make it count. I think it's because we play each other so many times, and on good wickets (that's why his record's good vs India). Arshdeep's got me out plenty of times, in the same way. Was just a technical thing to be aware of, and then play naturally. Conditions: The wicket was slow up front. Any new batter would find it harder. Just a matter of me, Aiden holding on and then build a stand. When India batted, it went the other way - two paced with more pace. That was the difference.
Aiden Markram, South Africa captain: Much better tonight. Started with a special knock from QDK and some contributions. Bowlers are trending in the right direction. Fielding good too. Pitch was good, something for the bowlers. If batters got in, they could put bowlers under pressure. Great support for India, good stadium. You, as a player, want to be given games in a run. The priority is to pick the best team in the WC. By the time SA20 is done, we need to give all the players some gametime. You put your hand up and do whatever was needed. I've batted in the middle order, you're never bigger than the team. That's a good trait to have. We'll reflect, my knock in the middle, could've been better.
Suryakumar Yadav, India captain: It's okay, completely fine. SA realised the lengths to bowl from the first innings. Little bit of dew. We should've gone to a second plan if the first didn't work. Gotta learn from SA. With bat, myself and Shubman could've given a good start. Abhishek can't always do it. I should've batted deeper, we learn and try to do better. Axar at 3, we've seen him bat and wanted him to do the same. He did bat well, gotta see what happens in the next games.
Ottneil Baartman The seamers let me do my thing. We knew something was in the surface and we tried to use the purchase off it. The swing bowlers did their thing, we just tried to use wobble and cross seam and went shorter than fuller. Whenever the captain calls you up, you gotta be ready to bowl.
Srini: "2 one-sided matches. But the first one seems to be a team having a bad night whereas this one throws so many concerns regarding Indian team's composition and approach. We are outplayed in all departments including strategy"
10:42pm A drubbing from South Africa after one from the other side earlier. Dew has not been decisive but Axar's promotion to No. 3 may have been. The early wickets provided by Ngidi and Jansen were also decisive. Tilak was the only batter to look in flow. Hardik struggled, Jitesh tried but couldn't get Tilak on strike. Sipamla gave away some boudnary balls, but Baartman was brilliant. Jansen was the pick of the bowlers despite taking two, as compared to Baartman's four. SA just hit the pitch instead of going just full and short. Linde's control of length was impressive considering the wet ball. In the end, it was a one-sided contest.
Avinash : "Wow...!! That unfolded rather quickly"
NT Tilak Varma c Markram b Ngidi 62 (76m 34b 2x4 5x6) SR: 182.35
CV Varun c Markram b Baartman 0 (2m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0
Arshdeep Singh c Miller b Baartman 4 (2m 3b 1x4 0x6) SR: 133.33
Arunabh : "In this series, team bowling second would most matches. Dew remains an even factor for both teams dur e to shortness of format and team bowling second learns from mistakes of inning 1"
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