New Chandigarh: Smarting from a 101-run defeat at Cuttack’s Barabati Stadium the other night, South Africa batters vent their fury at Indian bowlers to post a massive total of 212/4 in the second T20 International here on Thursday evening.
Quinton de Kock led the carnage with a 46-ball 90 (5×4, 7×6) as the Indian pacers lost the plot badly.
Arshdeep Singh delivered as many as 7 wides in an over, equalling Afghan Naveen-ul-Haq’s unwanted record of most number of balls (13) in an over in a T20I.
It was the left-arm seamer’s third over, and 11th of the innings. It went like – 6, wide, wide, dot ball, wide, wide, wide, wide, 1, 2, 1, wide, 1. A total of 18 runs in the 13-ball over, as Arshdeep finished with 0/54 in 4 overs.
The cameras caught coach Gautam Gambhir’s expression, which was self-explanatory.
Jasprit Bumrah was off-colour too, conceding 45 runs in 4 overs, while Hardik Pandya went for 34 in 3 overs as the Indians sent down too many full tosses.
Mystery spinner spinner Varun Chakravarthy was the most successful bowler, with figures of 2/29 in 4 overs.
