India skipper Suryakumar Yadav lavished reward on spinner Varun Chakravarthy for his magical figures of 5 for 17 throughout their three-wicket loss to South Africa within the second T20I right here on Sunday.
Chakaravarthy’s gorgeous spell lowered South Africa to 66 for six whereas chasing 125. Nevertheless, Tristan Stubbs (47) and Gerald Coetzee (19) held their nerves to take the hosts throughout the road in 19 overs, ending India’s 11-match successful streak.
“In a T20, somebody getting a five-for whereas defending 125 is unimaginable. Varun has been ready for this for a very long time, working laborious on his bowling, and everybody loved it,” Suryakumar mentioned in the course of the post-match presentation.
Invited to bat, India struggled with the bat, posting simply 124 for six.
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“You all the time must again no matter complete you get. In fact, in a T20 recreation, you don’t wanna get 120, however happy with how we bowled,” Suryakumar mentioned.
“Two video games to go, lots of leisure left. 1-1 going into Jo’burg, going to be lots of enjoyable.” South Africa captain Aiden Markram lauded the bowlers for his or her wonderful execution of plans.
“I assumed we bowled properly, some good plans and our bowlers executed properly,” he mentioned.
“From the batting perspective, you wish to break it on the mid-way stage, but it surely didn’t work out. Generally, while you lose wickets in a cluster, it doesn’t look fairly. We have to take it on the chin, we’re going to preserve our model of cricket going.” Chasing the modest complete, South Africa had been down 86 for seven earlier than Stubbs and Coetzee added 42 runs for the eighth wicket to take them residence.
“Happily, the run charge by no means acquired away from us. I had 30 (runs) in thoughts to get off the final three, and the dew got here in to assist us additionally,” mentioned Stubbs, who was adjudged the Participant of the Match.
“Coetzee got here in and performed that innings in the long run, and we acquired over the road. He (Coetzee) walked in and mentioned we will win this. It was all the time two hits away from being again to run-a-ball.
“I simply tried to breathe. It’s my mother’s birthday, so there have been 20-30 individuals who got here to observe the sport. That is my favorite place to play cricket. I used to be nervous, so I used to be attempting to manage my respiration.”