Watch cricket video highlights of South Africa of West Indies 2024 second twenty/20i between West Indies vs South Africa. Venue of the match will be Tarouba.
Playing in his 50th T20I, Aiden Markram decided that South Africa would pursue in the warm, bright conditions of Trinidad with the series on the line. The South African team that lost the first game two days ago saw one alteration. They started right-arm seamer Lizaad Williams in place of left-arm seamer Nandre Burger, who on Friday lost three overs for 47 runs. After a strong debut, teenage Kwena Maphaka was able to hold onto his spot on the team, with uncapped Jason Smith and Wiaan Mulder continuing to wait their time.
That preserved South Africa’s lineup consisting of three seamers, a spinner, two seam-bowling all-rounders, and five batsmen. The West Indies, on the other hand, continued to use the same lineup from the opening match, meaning that Obed McCoy, who had more experience, was out of the picture. Instead, Matthew Forde and Shamar Joseph were assigned to lead the pace pack. After limiting South Africa to 42 for 5 in the opening game, they will have faith in their abilities.
After that, South Africa reached a good score thanks to a record sixth-wicket partnership of 68 runs between Tristan Stubbs and Patrick Kruger, but the West Indies completed the most successful chase at this stadium by chasing it down with 13 balls remaining. If the West Indies are to win the series with one game remaining, they must ensure that they score large runs early, since they are aware that this surface can support such an effort.
At the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, the West Indies defeated South Africa for the third time in a row by defending 179 and destroying a well-planned chase. South Africa lost 7 for 20 in 35 balls after being 129 for 3 in the 14th over, and they were bowled out for 149 in 19.4 overs, falling short by 30 runs. After Tristan Stubbs and Donovan Ferreira were eliminated by Akeal Hosein and Gudakesh Motie, respectively, it was up to Romario Shepherd and Shamar Joseph to complete the victory.
Joseph finished with a career-best 3 for 31, while Shepherd finished with 3 for 15 from his four overs. Together, they turned South Africa’s hopes of tying the series from positive to negative. Given that South Africa was off to a fast start and the West Indies had only two days earlier pulled off the most successful chase at the site (175), they would have recognized that the total they established was reachable.
They reached 100 in ten overs, but between the tenth and fourteenth overs, the West Indies gave up just one boundary, forcing South Africa to make errors that ultimately cost them the match. Concerns will be raised about South Africa’s middle order after only one batter, No. 3, managed to score above 20 in a game when there were few individual standout performances. While neither team scored a half-century, the West Indies were unquestionably the superior force in the big hitting department.
They scored thirteen sixes as opposed to South Africa’s six, which would indicate where the game was decided. Another is that the 47-run partnership between Rovman Powell and Sherfane Rutherford gave the West Indies the advantage, as they scored 50 runs in their final five overs. Shai Hope signaled his intentions in this match as he slog swept Bjorn Fortuin over midwicket to hit his first boundary of the innings following a match-winning 51 in the first game.
A scoring opportunity in the V behind the stumps was created by Hope’s pull off Kwena Maphaka in the following over, which went between the wicketkeeper and short fine. Another way Alick Athanaze took advantage of the situation was by playing Lizaad Williams late through third. Before Hope’s finest was released, West Indies concluded the Powerplay on 43 for 1. Hope was able to strike with the wind as he blasted Aiden Markram for two consecutive sixes over midwicket after the South African skipper turned the ball into him.
To further highlight his propensity for leg-side play, he dragged Maphaka over cow corner and flicked Patrick Kruger over a wide fine leg for two more sixes. Before Hope was caught at deep point trying to reach for a wide delivery from Kruger, he had hit 39 of his 41 runs on the leg side and was on track for his third fifty in four innings. It took Kruger just two more balls to get his second T20I wicket after he got one off of Hope. In the twelfth over, Kruger hit with the first ball following a change of ends, but he followed the same strategy.
He kept his line wide outside off, encouraging Roston Chase to try a long shot. Only enough was obtained by him to locate Maphaka on the outside of the point boundary, who successfully made a low catch to turn West Indies 94 for 3. Even in this lineup, Kruger is not the preferred all-around player for South Africa, but he has performed well enough to keep Wiaan Mulder on the bench and maybe even beat over Donovan Ferreira.
Reeza Hendricks hit the first boundary of South Africa’s reply when he lifted the final ball of Hosein’s first over for four over midwicket, despite the ball not being very short. And it seemed like someone had turned on a switch. After hitting a wide ball from Matthew Forde over point and a full delivery through the covers, Hendricks appeared to just try a back-foot defensive block, which he timed well to go beyond mid-off for four more runs.Ira. His greatest moment came when he faced Chase.
He scored 22 runs off of him, including back-to-back sixes both sides of the wicket, to help South Africa reach 50 runs in four overs. He also scored 71 in the Powerplay even though he was bowled out on the last ball. Hendricks was out for forty-four after under-edging Romario Shepherd onto his stumps, but he appeared to be returning to his peak. Hendricks had only reached forty once in the eleven innings prior to this one, so even though he was unhappy not to reach a half-century, he did a good job setting up the chase.
At the beginning of the innings, Hosein lost 17 runs in his first two overs. By the time he returned in the 14th over, South Africa was comfortably ahead. After 13 wickets, they were 125 for 3, with Rassie van der Dussen and Tristan Stubbs both entering and scoring rapidly. When Hosein foxed Stubbs while he was in flight, it was a significant advance. Stubbs attempted to loft a slow-moving ball over long-off, but Fabian Allen, a replacement fielder, grabbed it because he could not get enough lift on it.
Donovan Ferreira was also dismissed due to pace-off, when Motie stumped him in the next over. However, Hosein’s last ball was the last delivery that ended South Africa’s aspirations. Shamar caught Rassie van der Dussen as he attempted to hit him over midwicket, but he only made contact with the inside part of the bat. After 16 overs, South Africa was 138 for 6, needing 42 runs in 24 balls. Before Forde completed the match, Shamar and Shepherd put South Africa out of reach and cleaned up the tail.
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