South Africa beat India in a low scoring match – India’s shameful run continues in 20 20 World Cup

Brief summary of the match:
South Africa 130 for 5 (de Villiers 63) beat India 118 for 8 (Rohit 29, Botha 3-16, Steyn 2-25) by 12 runs

India’s disappointing show of cricket continues with the lack of win’s; I'm expecting a security packed Mumbai airport as the team returns back to India. With effigies of Dhoni burnt in his own hometown and other places in India; the Indian cricket fans have been hurt and sad at the display of cricket by the Champions of last time's T20 World Cup. Lalit Modi’s CEO of IPL will also have to reconsider his plans of having two IPL tournaments in a year which will further increase the work load on the Indian players. A well devised rotation practice has to be employed to get more players playing the tournament and lesser games for each players keeping them fit and charged to perform.

Sorry for getting diverted from the update of yesterdays match between India v South Africa.

Back to the match: South Africa is the future Champion team of this years ICC 20 20 World Cup. That’s my prediction and they have proved it in the past two weeks. SA is a team which has not been challenged yet by any other team and the players are in immense touch of 20 20 cricket to beat any other team currently playing this nature of the game.

Abraham Benjamin de Villiers has been a revelation in this World Cup with consistently performing by scoring quick runs. In a spin friendly pitch he scored 63 of 51 balls where every other player failed to understand the nature of the pitch. The spinners troubled the SA players by bowling a tight line and keeping the scoring under control, resulting in 130 for 5 wickets in 20 overs was what South Africa could manage.

India’s chase was even pathetic with only Yuvraj and Harbhajan showing some sort of resistance but the spin duo of J Botha and R van der Merwe scalped 4 wickets among themselves to put a block in the scoring by India batsmen. Btha was outstanding taking 3 wickets. Dhoni as he is running out of words to express his failure, will have more apologies to the Indian fans who have been heart broken by India’s exit of the World Cup without offering any major fight.

Scorecard:

South Africa innings (20 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s
GC Smith*	c Jadeja b Harbhajan Singh	26	37	26	2	0
HH Gibbs	b Singh	5	7	3	1	0
AB de Villiers	c & b Jadeja	63	56	51	7	0
JP Duminy	st †Dhoni b Raina	10	20	15	0	0
MV Boucher†	c Singh b Khan	11	17	15	1	0
JA Morkel	not out	8	13	8	1	0
J Botha	not out	4	3	2	1	0
Extras	(lb 2, w 1)	3
Total	(5 wickets; 20 overs)	130	(6.50 runs per over)
Did not bat RE van der Merwe, WD Parnell, M Morkel, DW Steyn

India Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Z Khan	3	0	26	1	8.66
RP Singh	2	0	21	1	10.5
I Sharma	1	0	6	0	6
RA Jadeja	3	0	9	1	3
RG Sharma	2	0	15	0	7.5
Yuvraj Singh	4	0	25	0	6.25
Harbhajan Singh	4	0	20	1	5
SK Raina	1	0	6	1	6

India innings (target: 131 runs from 20 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s
G Gambhir	c Duminy b Botha	21	27	19	3	0
RG Sharma	c Steyn b Duminy	29	39	28	3	0
SK Raina	c M Morkel b Botha	3	7	8	0	0
Yuvraj Singh	c †Boucher b Steyn	25	47	25	1	1
MS Dhoni*†	run out (†Boucher/M Morkel)	5	11	12	0	0
YK Pathan	c de Villiers b van der Merwe	0	2	2	0	0
Harbhajan Singh	c de Villiers b Botha	14	18	15	1	1
RA Jadeja	not out	7	14	6	0	0
Z Khan	c de Villiers b Steyn	4	1	3	0	0
RP Singh	not out	2	4	2	0	0
Extras	(lb 4, w 4)	8
Total	(8 wickets; 20 overs)	118	(5.90 runs per over)
Did not bat I Sharma

SA Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DW Steyn	3	0	25	2	8.33
WD Parnell	3	0	22	0	7.33
M Morkel	4	0	23	0	5.75
JA Morkel	1	0	12	0	12
J Botha	4	0	16	3	4
RE van der Merwe	4	0	13	1	3.25
JP Duminy	1	0	3	1	3

Man of the Match: A B DeVilliers

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