No end result South Africa 177 for six (Brits 52, Bosch 40) vs India
A probably partaking contest was robbed of its conclusion because the second T20I between India and South Africa was deserted midway by means of courtesy a gradual night drizzle in Chennai.
It was the form of rain that would not take gamers off most occasions. Nonetheless, the sharpest spell of the night – a gradual five-minute drizzle – coincided with the innings break – pressured the bottom employees to cowl the enjoying floor. However it continued to mizzle on and off for the subsequent hour, forcing the umpires to tug the plug.
It left India, who made as many as 4 modifications to their XI, with extra questions than solutions, whereas South Africa may very well be pretty happy after a second good exercise with the bat, having adopted their 189 for six two nights in the past with a compelling 177 for six on Sunday night.
They go into the collection finale on Tuesday with a possibility to seal the collection, a big end result if it involves fruition given that is their final task earlier than the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in September.
Hey, Uma Chetry
Chetry was in motion nearly instantly. Everybody thought she had effected a sensible stumping when Tazmin Brits, the highest scorer from two nights in the past, ran right down to a Sajana Sajeevan slider. Whilst an ecstatic Chetry celebrated her first dismissal, the third umpire introduced her some agony.
A tiny fraction of Chetry’s glove was in entrance of the stumps when she collected the ball, which meant Brits wasn’t simply not out but in addition had a free hit. On 5 then, Brits constructed on to make a 36-ball half-century, trying in glowing contact for many components.
It was in sharp distinction to her struggles within the collection opener, the place she took 9 balls to get off the mark and had limped to a run-a-ball 25 after 10 overs, earlier than a sensational late acceleration introduced her 81 off 56 balls.
Wolvaardt’s blazing begin
She would even be fortunate to outlive a vanguard that just about popped to level as Arundhati Reddy, who changed Renuka Singh within the XI, had a troublesome starting.
However Wolvaardt’s innings was reduce brief quickly sufficient, when she discovered the protected arms of Radha Yadav at backward level as Pooja Vastrakar struck within the fifth over to interrupt a harmful opening partnership. Wolvaardt’s contribution to the 43-run stand was a strong 12-ball 22.
Deepti Sharma picked up the important thing wicket of Marizanne Kapp•BCCI
Deepti leads India’s spin cost
Deepti did what the opposite spinners could not – get balls to bounce off a size whereas additionally cleverly various her tempo – and Kapp fell in attempting to step out and hit by means of the road to 1 such supply, solely to search out Sajana at mid-off. Then India slipped in a number of tight overs with Shreyanka Patil, who changed legspinner Asha Sobhana, becoming a member of in.
It was a close to double-strike as India then prised out the harmful Chloe Tryon as she tamely lobbed a return catch to Radha. At 131 for 4 in 15 overs, South Africa wanted an enormous end to get close to the 189 they made on Friday. It wasn’t till the nineteenth that they bought that, when Shreyanka was hit for 4 fours in a 20-run over by Bosch, who greater than made up for a sluggish begin to end with a 32-ball 40.
Annerie Dercksen then completed the innings off in a blaze of boundaries, three of them off Vastrakar, to take South Africa to 177 earlier than the rain got here down and killed what may’ve been an thrilling chase.
Shashank Kishore is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
