New Delhi. South Africa leveled the series by playing the second T20 match against India. The host South African bowlers, who had lost badly in the first T20 match, gave the Indian batsmen a lot of trouble in the second T20 match. The Indian batsmen failed miserably against the African bowlers, due to which the team could only score 124 runs for 6 wickets. Afterwards, South Africa won the game by three wickets with one lead remaining.

The second T20 match between India and South Africa was played on Sunday. African captain Aiden Markram won the toss and batted first. In the first game too, he had won the toss and decided to bat first, but then India had posted a score of more than 200 runs. But in the second T20 match, the South African bowlers, maintaining the respect of their captain, continued to deliver shocks to the Indian team.

Marco Jansen didn’t even let Sanju Samson, who scored a century in the last game, open his account. India’s second opener Abhishek Sharma and captain Suryakumar Yadav were eliminated after scoring 4-4 ​​runs. Team India, who lost the third wicket by just 15 runs, were taken to a score of 124 by Tilak Verma (20), Akshar Patel (27) and Hardik Pandya (39).

The South African team, chasing the target of 125 runs, got off to a poor start. At one time the host team was struggling, losing 6 wickets for 66 runs. But Tristan Stubbs and Gerald Coetzee snatched the game away from India by showing great knocks in the final overs. Stubbs looked after one end while Coetzee batted brilliantly at the other end.

To win, South Africa needed to score 39 runs in 26 balls with three wickets left. The game seemed even. But Gerald Coetzee snatched the game from India by playing a storming innings. He scored 19 runs in 9 balls with the help of 2 fours and a six and won the match for his team. Tristan Stubbs remained unbeaten at the other end after scoring 47 runs in 41 balls. Varun Chakraborty took 5 wickets for India. But due to poor play by the batsmen, even their best performance could not win the game for India.

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