SA 96/4 | 17.1 Overs | Live Cricket Score India vs South Africa 2015, 2nd T20I at Cuttack: South Africa win crowd-marred match
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the second Twenty20 International (T20I) between India and South Africa at the Barbati Stadium in Cuttack on Monday. I am Rishad D’Souza and I will bring you all the live updates and scores from this match. After South Africa’s thrilling victory in the opening T20I, India will be looking for win to bring themselves back in the three-match T20I series. A few iffy umpiring decisions mixed with an excellent innings from JP Duminy and some poor death bowling from India meant that South Africa were able to pull off a win with two balls remaining. Rohit Sharma’s excellent century went in vain, and he will be keen to put up another good performance. India are going to have to overcome the disappointment of losing a close match, and they will need to do so quickly. Both teams batted well in the first match, but the bowling took a pounding on each occasion. Catch live cricket scores and ball-by-ball commentary of the India vs South Africa 2nd T20I at Cuttack here
Albie Morkel is man of the match for his three wickets taken in four overs from which he conceded a miserly 12 runs.
Live cricket score South Africa 96/4 | Overs 17.1 | Batting: JP Duminy 30(39), David Miller 10(8): And that’s it, South Africa have won the match and the series. The outcome was barely in question following the first innings, but India’s spinners still tried to pull things back. Fittingly Duminy finished the game with a four to become the top-scorer in the match at 30 runs. The match was marred by poor crowd behaviour. India will look to win the final T20I.
Live cricket score South Africa 79/4 | Overs 15 | Batting: JP Duminy 23(32), David Miller 2(2): Play resumes as the top tiers of the stadium has been emptied. Spectators have been asked to come down to the lower tiers. OUT! Akshar Patel traps Farhan Behardien leg before. Behardien walks back disappointed. Akshar Patel picks up the wicket. David Miller is the new batsmen. Wicket and five runs from the over. OUT! Farhaan Behardien lbw Akshar Patel 11(18)
Live cricket score South Africa 70/3 | Overs 13 | Batting: JP Duminy 19(26), Farhaan Behardien 8(14): After another tight over by Akshar Patel, the play has been suspended. The spectators were not willing to calm down and it looks like they are being evacuated from the field. Play will probably continue following the emptying of the stadium. If the match is called off South Africa will win the game on D/L method.
Live cricket score South Africa 66/3 | Overs 12 | Batting: JP Duminy 17(23), Farhaan Behardien 7(11): First over after the untoward break, Raina bowls a tight over conceding just two runs. South Africa can’t afford to let Indian bowlers pressurise them too much.
The match resumes
The players are merely sitting down and waiting patiently for the situation to come under control. The authorities had suspected unruly crowd behaviour and had deployed added security. Yet, the public has managed to halt play due to dissatisfaction.
Live cricket score South Africa 64/3 | Overs 11 | Batting: JP Duminy 16(20), Farhaan Behardien 6(8): The match is being held up by the crowd hurling bottles onto the field. They are obviously disappointed by the performance of the Indian team but the behaviour is rather childish. Play has been halted for now.
Live cricket score South Africa 57/3 | Overs 10 | Batting: JP Duminy 7(10), Farhaan Behardien 2(2): South Africa are inching closer to victory despite the loss of big wickets. JP Duminy and Farhaan Behardien at the crease and they’d like to see the game through. David Miller is yet to come.
Live cricket score South Africa 49/3 | Overs 8 | Batting: JP Duminy 7(10): AB de Villiers bowled by Ravichandran Ashwin and what a wicket to surpass the record for most wickets by an Indian in Twenty20 Internationals. Ashwin’s bowled de Villiers twice in the two games of this series so far. OUT! AB de Villiers 19(21) b Ashwin
Live cricket score South Africa 41/2 | Overs 7 | Batting: AB de Villiers 18(19), JP Duminy 2(6): Harbhajan continues to test the South African batsmen. On the other hand the South Africans are keen to hit the bowlers off their lines by using feet, interesting contest.
Live cricket score South Africa 38/2 | Overs 6 | Batting: AB de Villiers 18(19), JP Duminy 0(0): Faf du Plessis has sent the message out loud and clear. He is going to take on the bowlers. He stepped out a couple of times to his a four and a six but Ashwin hit back and caught him caught at mid off. Lovely catch by Mohit Sharma running backwards. OUT! Faf du Plessis 16 (14) c Mohit Sharma b R Ashwin
Live cricket score South Africa 25/1 | Overs 5 | Batting: AB de Villiers 15(17), Faf du Plessis 6(10): Faf du Plessis recognises the need to not get bogged down and steps out and hits a nice four down the ground. Couple of singles come in the over too. Lovely ball next, deceives Faf.
Live cricket score South Africa 18/1 | Overs 4 | Batting: AB de Villiers 12(13), Faf du Plessis 1(2): Lovely bowling by Ravichandran Ashwin. Concedes just one run, keeps batsmen thinking with the carrom ball mixed into the equation.
Live cricket score South Africa 17/1 | Overs 3 | Batting: AB de Villiers 12(13), Faf du Plessis 1(2): Harbhajan brought on, keeps it tight first up. Just four runs off that over. Dhoni has managed to slow them down significantly. South Africa are playing cautiously.
Live cricket score South Africa 13/1 | Overs 2 | Batting: AB de Villiers 8 (6): Ashwin brought on. First ball steered to leg for a single. Second ball is a dot. Next ball is cross batted by de Villiers for another single. Next ball is hit for a single to square leg. Another single next ball to long on. Final ball does the trick! Wicket of Hashim Amla, he’s caught at leg slip. OUT! Hashim Amla 2 (3) c R Sharma b Ashwin
Live cricket score South Africa 9/0 | Overs 1 | Batting: AB de Villiers 8 (6), Hashim Amla 0 (0): There’s a small score to chase and de Villiers is in a hurry to track it down. Second ball is back of a length outside off, it’s hammered to the cover boundary. Fourth ball is hit over point powerfully, not much a fielder can do there. Next ball is a overhead wide. Final ball is a fine ball, nips in off a good length and raps de Villiers on the pads. Stifled appeal turned down due to height.
Live cricket score India 92 | Overs 17.2 | Batting: Mohit Sharma 0(4): Chris Morris bowls the next over. First ball is a wide. Next ball is a dot and the resulting pressure makes Ashwin play a wild shot next delivery, he gives himself room and tries to hit to covers, the straight ball misses his bat but not the stumps. South Africa have to chase just 93. OUT! Ravi Ashwin 11(15) b Chris Morris
Live cricket score India 91/9 | Overs 17 | Batting: Mohit Sharma 0(4), Ravi Ashwin 11(13): Albie Morkel took two wickets in the 16th over. Patel was dismissed off the fourth ball. In the last ball, Bhuvneshwar Kumar missed a full toss and was bowled. Kyle Abbott concedes just six runs in the next over. OUT! Akshar Patel 9 (12) c du Plessis b Morkel, OUT! B Kumar 0 (2) b Morkel
Live cricket score India 81/7 | Overs 15 | Batting: Akshar Patel 6(9), Ravi Ashwin 8(9): Imran Tahir’s final over. There are six singles taken in it, good idea to play him out. First ball played to long off by Ashwin. Second ball flicked to deep square led, next ball is swept to fine leg for a single. Patel’s hits the next ball outside off to sweeper cover. Ashwin does the same next ball. Patel meekly pulls the next ball to midwicket.
Live cricket score India 75/7 | Overs 14 | Batting: Akshar Patel 3 (6), Ravi Ashwin 5(6): Morkel bowls. First ball driven to mid off, no run. Akshar Patel guides the next ball for a single towards mid-on. Ashwin drives the next ball to point, no run. Another couple of dots squeezed in. Final ball yields a single after a shot to third-man.
Live cricket score India 73/7 | Overs 13 | Batting: Akshar Patel 2 (4), Ravi Ashwin 4(2): Imran Tahir back in. First ball driven to point, dot. Googly next, gets a single. Next ball gets the wicket of Suresh Raina, Raina doesn’t quite pick the googly and drives it for a simple catch to Hashim Amla at cover. Harbhajan Singh dismissed for a golden duck next ball! Bhaji goes for the drive and the googly sneaks the gap, bowled. Ashwin late cuts the final ball beautifully for FOUR, races away.
Live cricket score India 68/5 | Overs 12 | Batting: Akshar Patel 1 (2), Suresh Raina 21(21): Single off first ball for Dhoni after punching to deep point. Raina comes down the track next but Morkel spots it and adjusts his length, deceives Raina, misses, dot ball. Pulls the next short ball to deep backward square leg, single. Next ball gets the big fish, i.e MS Dhoni. Dhoni was looking to work the good length ball to the point/extracover area, but it’s a leg cutter and takes the edge which De Villiers catches in a front dive. Akshar Patel is the next batsman in, drives it to the midwicket fielder, dot. Next ball yields a single. OUT! MS Dhoni 5(8) c De Villiers b Morkel
Live cricket score India 65/4 | Overs 11 | Batting: MS Dhoni 4(6), Suresh Raina 21(21): Tahir now. Dhoni gets a single first ball after hitting to long off. Lovely by Raina second ball, its a low full toss that’s timed to perfection through the vacant point area. Next delivery foxes Raina, gets the inside edge and almost takes the stump. Raina drives the next ball straight back to Tahir. Next ball stops on Raina, who was very early on the shot and the leading edge evades the fielder at short extra cover, single taken.
Live cricket score India 58/4 | Overs 10 | Batting: MS Dhoni 2(4), Suresh Raina 16(17): First ball defended. Second ball hit with grace through the extra cover region, great attempt by JP Duminy in the deep to prevent the four but falls marginally short of saving the boundary. Abbott offers width fourth ball and cut emphatically for four. Good length ball next, Raina guides it to midwicket.
Live cricket score India 48/4 | Overs 9 | Batting: MS Dhoni 1(3), Suresh Raina 7(11): Rabada for his last over. Ball one, guided to third man for a single. Next ball defended to extra cover. Ambati Rayudu bowled by Rayudu off a straight full toss with Rayudu swinging with a horizontal bat and fatally missing. Dhoni comes in now, has a big task cut out. Leaves the first ball alone. Next ball is a wide down leg. Rabada bowls another short ball and it’s a bit too wide. Dhoni works the next ball to deep square leg for a single. OUT! Ambati Rayudu 0(2) b Rabada
Live cricket score India 44/3 | Overs 8 | Batting: Ambati Rayudu 0(0), Suresh Raina 7(11): First ball by Morkel is a short one, Rohit angles it down to third man for a single. Raina hits the next ball to backward deep point for a single. Rohit tries to cut the next ball, but the bounce makes him miss. Rohit comes down the track next ball on a good length but fails to make good contact. Hits the next ball wide off point, but Miller swoops in and throws it at the stumps and a quick Rohit is run out! Raina hits the next ball to leg for a single.
OUT! Rohit Sharma 22 (24) David Miller
Live cricket score India 41/2 | Overs 7 | Batting: Rohit Sharma 21(20), Suresh Raina 5(9): Rabada in, first ball worked to leg side for a single. Raina gets the short ball next, he tries to pull but gets a leading edge which evades the leg slip, gets a single. Rohit tucks the next ball away off a length for a single. Raina gets another corker, but it’s way to high and even down leg, wide signalled. Puts it in short again, Raina hits it to the vacant square leg area, gets a couple. Next ball is full on the pads, Raina misses the flick, theres a sound on way to the keeper but it’s not off the bat. Next ball is worked to midwicket, no run.
Live cricket score India 35/2 | Overs 6 | Batting: Rohit Sharma 19(17), Suresh Raina 2(5): Chris Morris comes back in. India are in deep trouble, but while Rohit is there it seems well and good. First ball is on full outside off, driven hard to mid off, no run. Rohit gets a single of the next ball to backward square leg. Raina firmly drives to mid off next ball, dot. Next ball is steered to third man for a single. Next ball is a bouncer, Rohit clueless leaves it alone. Rohit gently dabs the next delivery to mid on for a quick single.
Live cricket score India 32/2 | Overs 5 | Batting: Rohit Sharma 17(14), Suresh Raina 1(3): Virat Kohli joins Rohit now. And he leaves just as soon. He’s been run out, brilliant display of fielding by Chris Morris. He walked away dejected without waiting for the umpires decision. Didn’t look like Kohli was keen for two runs after working it towards deep midwicket, but Rohit charged in and Virat followed fatally. Suresh raina comes in next. Raina gets a single of first ball to mid on. Rohit dabs the next shortish ball to third man for a single. OUT! Virat Kohli 1 (1) run out
Live cricket score India 28/1 | Overs 4 | Batting: Rohit Sharma 15(12): Chris Morris in. Pitches the ball up, Dhawan drives, gets the inside edge onto the pad, no foot movement, gets a single. Rohit pushes the next ball to the leg side where a misfield allows them to run two. Rohit flicks the next ball pitched full on leg to the fine leg boundary. Rohit sneaks in a single next ball by hitting the ball to mid on. Next ball is short and offers Dhawan with width to cut and it races for FOUR even though the point fielder gets finger tips onto it. Dhawan’s luck runs out next ball, went for the pickup shot of a full length delivery and misses, struck in front, lbw. OUT! Shikhar Dhawan 11 (12) lbw Chris Morris
Live cricket score India 16/0 | Overs 3 | Batting: Shikhar Dhawan 6(9), Rohit Sharma 8(9): Kagiso Rabada brought on now. First ball is hit towards mid on by Rohit for a single. Dhawan drives the next full length ball but not with optimal timing, gets a single. Brilliant bouncer next delivery, it jumped up quickly, Rohit evades. Dabs it to point for a quick single next ball. Full length ball to Dhawan next up, plays it down. Dhawan drives the next ball through cover for a single.
Live cricket score India 12/0 | Overs 2 | Batting: Shikhar Dhawan 4(5), Rohit Sharma 6(6): Imran Tahir brought on, surprise call. First ball Rohit simply defends to mid on, juts taking a measure. Next ball spins for wide down leg. Awkward bounce next ball knocks Rohit’s bat off his hand next ball! Single of the next delivery, Dhawan on. Dhawan gets an edge and it races for FOUR to third man. Next delivery merely dabbed to cover, no run. Dhawan attempts the reverse hit next ball, but Tahir readjusts the line, Dhawan misses.
Live cricket score India 6/0 | Overs 1 | Batting: Shikhar Dhawan 0(3), Rohit Sharma 5(3): Kyle Abbott with the ball, Rohit Sharma faces. First ball solidly defended, there was some away movement for Abbott. Next ball is a wide. Gives too much room the next ball and Rohit punishes him with a four to deep backward point. Another good shot next ball, but fielded at point, single taken. Good ball to Shkhar Dhawan up front, in the block-hole, dot. Getting it to swing in next time, Rohit wants a run but Dhawan turns down. Next ball guided to extra cover, no run.
Teams:
India: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (wk/c), Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohit Sharma
South Africa: Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers (wk), Faf du Plessis(c), Jean-Paul Duminy, Farhaan Behardien, David Miller, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Kyle Abbott, Albie Morkel, Imran Tahir
TOSS UPDATE: South Africa have won the toss and elected to bowl first, that keeps in pattern with the first game at Dharamsala. India has opted for Harbhajan Singh in favour of Sreenath Aravind. South Africa have also wrung in a change with Albie Morkel coming in for Marchant de Lange.
Squads:
India: MS Dhoni (c&wk), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Stuart Binny, Akshar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ambati Rayudu, Mohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra and Sreenath Aravind.
South Africa: Faf du Plessis (c), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock (wk), Marchant de Lange, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, Eddie Leie, David Miller, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Albie Morkel and Khaya Zondo.