T20 world Cup : India vs South Africa Match Review

India played their second match in T20 world cup against South Africa on 2nd may. The match witnessed first century by an Indian player in an international T20 match.

The match started with the wicket of Murali Vijay in the first over. Dinesh Karthik had opened with Murali Vijay in this match. Initially the pitch looks helpful for bowlers and all the Indian batsmans struggled to get runs. India was 30/2 after 5 overs. But when Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh joined together the match changed. Both of them were attacking the bowling and getting runs quickly. Both took some time to settle down but once they settled both of them were playing there shorts easily.

South Africa has included three fast bowlers plus Kallis and Albie Morkel they can also bowl quick and Van Der Merwe as the spinning option. But India has included two fast bowlers and three spineers. South African spinner had Merwe bowled only one over and gone for so many runs. By seeing that Dhoni could be thinking about his choice of including three spinners was right.

Dhoni continued his form from the previous match against Afganistan scoring 15 runs from 6 balls. Yuvraj Singh scored 37 runs from 31 balls. But the match winning innings of Suresh Raina 101(60balls) helped India to reach 186/5.

In the powerplay overs Dhoni has given most of overs to spinners. Initially they weren't gone for too many runs. SA lost the wicket of Bosman in Pathan's first over. Then both Smith and Kallis were scoring 6 runs per over upto 10th over. After that both of them started to score runs quickly and Indian spinners were hammered around.

But eventually they were able to score only 172/5 with Kallis scoring 71(51b). It was Nehra who has kept SA quiet in the final overs, eventually finishing 27/1 in his 4 overs. India's all the spin bowlers had gone for plenty of runs. SA tried to victory in the final overs with De Villers scoring 31 runs in 15 balls. But eventually India wins by 14 runs, thanks to that hundread from Suresh Raina and good bowling from Nehra.

Suresh Raina was the Man of the Match for his 101 runs from just 60 balls.

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