West Indies vs South Africa 2nd T20I: The South African cricket team is on a tour of West Indies these days, where its condition seems to be bad. A 3-match T20 series is being played between the two teams, of which 2 matches have been played. The Caribbean team has won both the matches and captured the series 2-0. West Indies won the second match by 30 runs.
Now the third match will be played on 28th August. The second match was very exciting, in which the African team lost the match which they had won. It can also be said that in the last moments, the Caribbean bowlers snatched the victory from the jaws of the African team by taking 7 wickets in 20 runs with their devastating bowling.
Shai Hope played a fiery innings for the Windies
In fact, after losing the toss and batting first, West Indies scored 179 runs for 6 wickets. Shai Hope played a fiery innings of 41 runs in 22 balls for the team. During this, he hit 4 sixes and 2 fours. While captain Rovman Powell hit 35 runs in 22 balls.
Sherfane Rutherford scored 29 and Alick Athanje scored 28 runs. On the other hand, fast bowler Lizad Williams took the maximum of 3 wickets for South Africa. Medium pacer Patrick Kruger took 2 and Othneil Bartman took 1 wicket.
This is how Africa lost 7 wickets in 20 runs
South Africa had a great start chasing the target of 180 runs. The team lost its first wicket at 63 runs. After this, they scored 125 runs in 13 overs by losing 3 wickets. From here it seemed that the African team would win this match easily, because it needed 55 runs in 42 balls and had 7 wickets left.
But from here the Caribbean bowlers started wreaking havoc and bundled out the entire African team for 149 runs. The African team lost the fourth wicket at 129 runs. While the last i.e. the 10th wicket fell at 149 runs and the African team collapsed. In this way, within 20 runs (from 129 to 149), the African team lost the last 7 wickets and lost the match and the series.
In the match, the African team collapsed at 149 in 19.4 overs and lost the match by 30 runs. Romario Shepherd and Shamar Joseph bowled devastatingly for West Indies. Both of them took 3-3 wickets each. While Akeel Hussain got 2 successes.