South Africa Won T20 against India by 11 Runs

The Indian cricketers failed to earn praises from the fans in Johannesburg who had come to cheer for them.

South Africa won the New Age Friendship Cup by 11 runs against India as the match was called off due to rain yesterday March 30. Sent to bat first by the Indians, the SA team made a big 219/4 in 20 overs.

But when India came to bat later, rain put a full stop to the game when they scored 71 runs with openers Robin Uthappa and Gautam Gambhir still in the middle in 7.5 overs. Even though there was no loss, India was behind the par score of SA’s 82 as per Duckworth Lewis method by 11 runs; and thus declared losing the game.

Highlights of the Match

• Ingram was declared the Player of the Match for his maiden T20 half-century.
• Kallis hits his 5th T20 half-century.
• The 2nd wicket partnership between Kallis and Ingram of 119 runs is the best for any wicket in T20s between SA V/s India.

SA won the 2nd T20 against India by 11 runs, with a loss of only 4 wickets.

Performance on field?

Gambhir was on fire scoring 49 off just 28 balls, with his seven boundaries. Uthappa managed to support him with 18 runs off 19 balls, but the rain played a spoilsport stopping them only at 71/0 in 7.5 overs.

SA batted sensationally putting a stop at 219 runs for the loss of four wickets in 20 overs against India in Johannesburg.

In the beginning, Richard Levi (19) and Jacques Kallis (61) hit some good shots, before they were bowled out by Irfan Pathan and Ravichandran Aswin, caught by Rohit Sharma.

Colin Ingram joined Kallis to give a strong delivery of 78, getting bowled out by Raina, caught yet again by R. Sharma. There was a good partnership between Kallis and Colin hitting sixes and fours. All cheers were heard for Kallis and Colin.

Justin Ontong (22) and Farhaan Behardien (20) then took the South African total past 200. Ontang got bowled out in the hands of Raina.

Albie Morkel also made his presence felt scoring 16 runs off the last 3 balls of the innings. The 20th over bowled by Suresh Raina with batsmen Farhaan and Albie batting tightly, turned out to be the most costly, producing 26 runs.

Well-played South Africa as they win over India by 11 runs in New Age Friendship Cup.