Stubbs played the match winning inning of 47* runs.
SA vs IND 2nd T20i: The second match of the ongoing four-match T20 series between South Africa and India was played today, Sunday, November 10, at the St. George Park Stadium in Gqeberha. Let us tell you that in this low scoring match, South Africa has defeated India by 3 wickets.
Middle order batsman Tristan Stubbs played an important role in helping South Africa win the match. In the match, he showed patience and played an unbeaten match-winning inning of 47* runs with the help of 7 fours in 41 balls while handling one end. Stubbs was awarded the Player of the Match (POTM) award for this innings.
Tristan Stubbs wins POTM award for his clutch innings. pic.twitter.com/rnZ6E6F9oB
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) November 10, 2024
Status of South Africa vs India second T20 match
So if we tell you in detail about the match, South Africa has decided to bowl after winning the toss. After this, while batting first, the top order of Team India proved to be a miserable failure. The Indian team could score only 124 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.
Sanju Samson (0), Abhishek Sharma (4) and Suryakumar Yadav (4) disappointed in batting. However, for India, Tilak Verma scored 20, Akshar Patel scored 27 and Hardik Pandya scored 39* runs, due to which India was successful in making a respectable score.
On the other hand, an amazing bowling performance was seen from South Africa. For South Africa, Gerald Coetzee, Marco Jansen, Andle Simelane, Aiden Markram and Nqabayomzi Peter got 1-1 success.
After this, when South Africa came out to chase the easy target of 125 runs given by India, looking at the tight bowling of the Indian spinners, it seemed that India would save the match, but in the end Gerald Coetzee (19*) took the wicket in 9 balls. Tristan Stubbs gave good support to 47* by hitting 2 fours and 1 six.
The pair ended the match in the 19th over itself. In bowling for India, Varun Chakraborty got 5 successes and Arshdeep Singh and Ravi Vishnoi got 1 success each. With this win, the hosts have leveled the T20 series at 1-1.