India vs South Africa 2nd T20I Highlights: SA beat IND by six wickets

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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.