India vs South Africa 2nd ODI: India won by 1 Run

India vs South Africa 2nd ODI: India won by 1 Run. SA had the game in the bag and they …. choked. India won the toss and elected to bat first. India lost its first wicket M Vijay (16) early in the eighth over. The score was 22. Sachin Tendulkar (24) and Virat Kohli (22) then added 41-runs for the second wicket partnership. Kohli was unfortunate to get run out. Yufraj singh and dhoni made good partnership of 83 but after that India lost all wicket so quickly and gave a very simple target of 190 runs to South Africa.

South Africa didn’t have good start and lost the wicket of Hashim Amla on the total score of 7. Munaf Patel brought him back to pavilion. Graem Smith and Colin Ingram (25) contributed 59-runs for the second wicket. Harbhajan made Ingram to depart and got him lbw. AB de Villiers and JP Duminy couldn’t do much and made just 8 and 13 runs respectively. But then with David Miller (27), Graeme Smith before getting bowled on the ball of Munaf added some precious runs for his team. He played a well innings of 77 runs.

India 190 (47.2 ov)

South Africa 189 (43.0 ov)

India won by 1 run

Munaf Patel is the man of the match. MS Dhoni “It’s a big win for us. We were short of 40-45 runs. We got a slow but a good start. Yuvraj got out just before we were about to take the powerplay. Then we had to postpone it. Then when we took it, Raina fell first ball. Harbhjan’s role was crucial. When Bhaji came they decided not to take him on and lost a bit of momentum . Munaf has been bowling well for us in the last 10-20 games he has played. The part-timers also have bowled well. Yuvraj is our main batsman at no 4. He can dictate terms. Once he crosses 10-15 runs, you can see that he bats fantastically. Two gone, three more to go; we are expecting some tough cricket.”

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