India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: De Kock’s 90 key as SA post 213/4 in 20 overs, Varun strikes twice for IND | Cricket
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Quinton de Kock off to a fast start in Mullanpur.
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I IND vs SA: Quinton de Kock’s 90 off 46 balls took South Africa to 213/4 in 20 overs vs India, in the 2nd T20I in Mullanpur on Thursday. De Kock have his side a strong, despite the early departure of opening partner Reeza Hendricks (8). Meanwhile, Varun Chakaravarthy was the best bowler for India, taking two wickets. The Indian bowlers were expensive as Arshdeep Singh conceded 54 runs. Meanwhile, Jaspri Bumrah leaked 18 runs in the final over and Arshdeep conceded 16 in the 19th.…Read More
At the end of the day, a 101-run win tells you the story of a one-sided match and of one team exerting full dominance over the other – but this doesn’t mean India don’t have plenty to be concerned about as the five-match series against the experimenting South Africans continues. It was the Hardik Pandya show in Cuttack followed by a typically clinical bowling performance, but the cracks in India’s batting continue to widen and force tough questions of Gautam Gambhir’s men in the shortest format.
India continue to be successful and victorious, but will be aware that a shaky batting is something that can be exposed by the best teams in the world come February, even on home turf. South Africa have been chopping and changing trying to find the right combinations, and had a really bad day on Tuesday, but have plenty of firepower to harm this Indian team. It will be all about whether Suryakumar Yadav and co. can come to the party and show off the quality they possess, with a 2-0 series lead on the line.
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India will be relatively happy with the combination they went in with in the opening T20I of the series, with every department looking well-covered while also providing plenty of depth. Kuldeep Yadav might be the key candidate to come in if there is plenty of turn and a slow pitch on offer in Mullanpur, but odds are that the same team is persisted with heading into this second T20I.
IND playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy
For South Africa, it is just about the talent they possess coming good. The batting looks dangerous but needs to step up, and some additional depth might be opted for with the lower-order hitting of Corbin Bosch.
SA playing XI: Aiden Markram (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Donovan Ferreira, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Lungi Ngidi, Ottneil Baartman
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Dec 11, 2025 8:50:29 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: SA – 213/4 (20)
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: THe final over and Bumrah to wrap the first innings! He starts with a length delivery and Miller directs him for a single. Then Ferreira slams him for a six over long-off, followed by a double. Another six, pulled over deep square leg, and then a double. Final ball. Byes one run!
SA – 213/4 (20)
Dec 11, 2025 8:38:04 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: SA – 179/4 (18)
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Bumrah begins with a low full toss and Ferreira takes a single. Then he sends another full toss and Miller hammers it for a four, and then for another, clipped past the wicketkeeper. Then he takes a double, and carves him through covers for another four! Ends with a dot.
SA – 179/4 (18)
Dec 11, 2025 8:30:29 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: OUT! ANOTHER WICKET!
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: ANOTHER ONE! AXAR STRIKES! He sends it flat and Brevis sends it to long-on for a good low catch from Tilak!
Brevis c Tilak b Axar 14 (10)
Dec 11, 2025 8:26:30 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: TERRIFIC WICKET-KEEPING FROM JITESH! Runs out de Kock on 90!
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: HOW GOOD IS THAT! Cut into the ground by De Kock, who sets off for a run before realising Jitesh can grab it. In one quick movement, he removes the stumps, and de Kock is struggling to get back in time! Unlucky break after an excellent innings for him, but that’s such an important wicket for India – can they start strangling the Proteas?
Dec 11, 2025 8:22:56 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Top effort from Gill in the deep but it’s six for Brevis!
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Sent miles high by Brevis but just enough distance! Gill has to stretch back and throw it back in, but he has trodden on the boundary in his effort to do that. Six for Brevis, he will want that to get him going.
2 overs, just 18 off Dube in this spell – not too bad from him at all.
Dec 11, 2025 8:16:17 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: De Kock continues to find the boundaries with ease!
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: This is some ridiculous batting from De Kock. Off-side, leg-side, everywhere. Yet another pickup for six, don’t bowl on his legs! Into the 80s and South Africa might be targeting 220+ here.
Dec 11, 2025 8:07:27 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: 6, 6, out! Varun removes Markram as he gets going
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Markram had started very slowly and tried to get going, but despite two sixes, he gets a send-off from Varun as he picks out mid-wicket! One shot too many in that over, but he added some impetus with those sixes.
121/2 after 12.
Dec 11, 2025 8:01:50 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: 13 ball over, 18 off it
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: My, Arshdeep looking oddly frazzled there, but responds well ultimately. But one for him to forget, 7 wides in that over.
Dec 11, 2025 7:56:34 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Arshdeep losing his line! Wide after wide in the over
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Since that six, Arshdeep has become gun-shy. Straying far too wide. Only two legal deliveries in the over. De Kock waiting for him.
Make the five wides in the over!
Dec 11, 2025 7:53:14 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Six more! This is so good from QdK
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Shot of the day! Gets it in his slot, holds his shape, and just a free swing of the arms to send it right back over Arshdeep Singh’s head. All balance, all timing, all connection. Sweet as you like.
Dec 11, 2025 7:50:22 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: 90/1 at halfway stage
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: It has been all Quinton de Kock in the first half of the innings. Onto 62* off 31, thanks to a big six straight over Axar, his fifth maximum of the innings. Axar tries to slide it across but there’s not enough grip in the pitch to get the set de Kock to mistime it.
Looking at 200+ here with batting to come.
Dec 11, 2025 7:43:13 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Fifty for de Kock! Bisects the fielders
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Perfect placement! Right between mid-on and mid-wicket, and just races through them even as they stretch for it.
FIne fifty for de Kock and set up for a big one here.
Dec 11, 2025 7:34:49 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Half-chance for Abhishek! Falls just short
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: De Kock nearly picks out Abhishek Sharma at deep midwicket! Not a full-blooded stroke though, so pitches short of him. Can’t get there diving forward either.
Dec 11, 2025 7:30:14 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: 12 off Axar’s over, SA 53/1 after powerplay
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Another six for QdK, this time off the spinner! On his legs and he just goes for it with full confidence.
South Africa in a strong position after the powerplay, India need de Kock’s wicket. He’s on 34* off 18.
Dec 11, 2025 7:22:37 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Strikes with first ball! Varun on the money, removes Hendricks
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Timber! That’s a poor shot, but that’s what Varun was introduced for. On the stumps, quick and skiddy, not there to be swung at across the line. Hendricks nowhere close and his stumps are a mess.
Important wicket for India.
Dec 11, 2025 7:21:01 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Six more! 16 off the Bumrah over
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: How often do you see Bumrah knocked around like this! South Africa enjoying the hard length India have tried to find early on. Third pickup for De Kock which flies for six, and this is becoming threatening.
Varun Chakravarthy on.
Dec 11, 2025 7:17:30 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Reeza Hendricks connects! Sends Bumrah for six
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Shot! What a sound that has made. Thundered off the middle of his bat. Swings across the line and my does he connect.
Dec 11, 2025 7:15:38 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: 22/0 after 3
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Good comeback from Arshdeep to close out the over. Fuller has been better thus far on this pitch, particularly to De Kock.
Dec 11, 2025 7:12:59 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: De Kock goes after Arshdeep! 4, 6
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Great batting! Arshdeep a little too short, and De Kock can twice swivel and pull it over the leg side. First over the infield for four, then high into the leg-side boundary. That’s good cricket from the opener.
Dec 11, 2025 7:12:04 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Quiet over from Bumrah
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Just two off Bumrah’s over. Typically tight start, being treated with respect.
Dec 11, 2025 7:05:28 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: First six! QDK gets going
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Lovely pickup! On his legs and it’s a free swing of that bat to clear square leg.
Earlier, Reeza Hendricks survived a close run-out call. Fielder couldn’t hit the target.
Dec 11, 2025 7:02:06 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: HERE WE GO! Arshdeep against QDK and Hendricks
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Ready to start! Hendricks to open, but it is Quinton de Kock taking strike against Arshdeep…
Leaves the first one outside off.
Dec 11, 2025 6:47:24 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: What did the captains say?
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: After winning the toss, Suryakumar said, “This has always been a wonderful ground. When we played here during franchise cricket, and recently saw a women’s game also happen here, it was wonderful. And the first men’s game, I heard, is happening here – international, so very excited for it. I’m sure the crowd are also excited. It’s really important for the boys to understand their responsibilities and see what the team demands in that situation. They batted perfectly looking at the situation. 175 on that wicket, was a little over par. The way we bowled, I think it was a lovely effort. The balance which he (Hardik Pandya) provides in the team is amazing. The way he batted, the way he keeps calm on the ground when he’s batting, when it’s a pressure situation. And the way he bowled also; I think that’s more important. His overs are also really important for the side. The way he carried himself throughout the game, it didn’t look like he was injured. We go with the same team.”
Meanwhile, SA skipper Markram said, “We would have done the same. Looked a pretty good wicket to the eye. Not a lot of cricket being played international-wise, so we would have bowled first. But having said that, we can put it up on the board early and hopefully get them under some pressure. There are always lessons to take, but I don’t think you want to dive too deep into things. Make peace with the fact that we can have nights like that, and we unfortunately had that in the first game. But the opportunity is there for us tonight to get it right and make some strides. I think that’s where a lot of the focus is. I haven’t thought of that to be honest. I’m not too sure. We’ll get feedback after the first few balls are over and sort of plan it from there. But yeah, I’m hoping to get off to a good start, build some good partnerships tonight, and it gives us a good chance to put up a good total. Not because of the pitch, but just from a rotation point of view, we’ve got three changes: Stubbs, Maharaj and Nortje are out, Reeza, Linde and Baartman are in.”
Dec 11, 2025 6:42:32 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: India unchanged for 2nd T20I
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: No changes for India, a surface that will suit this team, especially while chasing.
IND playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy
Dec 11, 2025 6:37:32 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Three changes for South Africa
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: So wholesale changes for the Proteas as they head into this match looking for rotation, says Markram. Stubbs, Maharaj, and Nortje miss out, while Hendricks, Linde, and Baartman come in.
SA playing XI: Aiden Markram (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Donovan Ferreira, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Lungi Ngidi, Ottneil Baartman
Dec 11, 2025 6:33:49 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Suryakumar wins toss and opts to BOWL FIRST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: News from the middle! Toss goes India’s way (rarer and rarer in recent history) and Suryakumar doesn’t hesitate to bowl first on this surface.
No changes for India.
Dec 11, 2025 6:27:29 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Good batting surface expected
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Dale Steyn with the pitch report stating that it’s a hard and true batting surface, so with the ball coming onto the bat, runs to be expected? There will also be some pace and bounce for the faster bowlers to enjoy.
Toss very soon.
Dec 11, 2025 6:15:26 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: 15 mins to toss – any personnel changes for India?
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Building up to the toss now in Mullanpur. India should be pretty happy with the combination they landed upon for the first T20I, and changes likely won’t come into play for them. Both first-choice seamers will likely remain in the picture.
South Africa might try to add some batting depth with Corbin Bosch sitting out of the first T20I.
Dec 11, 2025 6:05:24 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Batting first might be the call again
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: While the ODI series was dominated by talks of dew playing a role, things could be much more even for the late evening games taking place in the T20I series. India’s bowlers turned the screws in Cuttack, and might want the chance to do more of the same in Mullanpur, which had 6 wins to the team batting first in 11 IPL matches. As always though, this team will back themselves batting second if they have to chase down a total.
Dec 11, 2025 5:55:16 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Mullanpur prepares for first men’s international match
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: This will be the first time the New PCA Stadium in Mullanpur in New Chandigarh will host the men’s India team: it has seen action in the IPL and also hosted the three ODIs between India and Australia’s women’s teams in September leading up the the Women’s World Cup.
Mullanpur in its short history has seen a massive range of scores: this is where Punjab Kings defended 111 against KKR, but also has the capability for high scores if the wicket stays true.
Dec 11, 2025 5:45:02 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: ‘Rockstar’ Hardik Pandya proves his value to India
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: The main positive India can take away from the first T20I is that Hardik Pandya remains one of the most impressive players in world cricket. He didn’t have much to do with bat in the Asia Cup, but when his teamneeds him with their backs to the wall, he has so many different forms he is capable of taking. A razor-sharp cricketing brain with the skills to match it, his flexibility and talent means he should always be at the forefront of these conversations.
Dec 11, 2025 5:30:31 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: And as do South Africa’s
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: The Proteas have shown a tendency to really implode in recent months: there is so much phenomenal quality in this team, but when things go wrong, the go wrong HARD. The lowest total in their T20I history indicates just that, and it’s not something you expect from a team that combines a high ceiling with genuine reliability. But that’s the thing about the Proteas: they will always have the ability to put together 40 overs of high-quality cricket despite what happened previously.
Dec 11, 2025 5:20:38 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: India’s batters need to step up
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: Too often in the recent matches against Australia and the Asia Cup, India’s batting hasn’t quite come to the party. While Abhishek Sharma has established himself as arguably the best batter going in the format, the rest of the team has regressed just a touch: captain Surya has’t found his rhythm, and the middle order has been hit-or-miss behind him. Hardik Pandya was close to his best in Cuttack, but there are still some issues that quickly need solving as a whole for the forms of these players.
Dec 11, 2025 5:10:09 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: World champions dominate in 2024 final rematch
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: India and South Africa have seen plenty of each other since their fateful contest in Barbados last summer, and as has been the case since that very match, India continued to dominate. An above-par score on a two-paced Cuttack wicket meant the Proteas were always up against it, and simply couldn’t find any momentum with bat as India’s bowling unit kept pegging them back with regular wickets.
Dec 11, 2025 4:50:36 PM IST
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: HELLO AND WELCOME!
India vs South Africa Live Score, 2nd T20I: India lead 1-0 after a thumping 101-run victory in Cuttack over the Proteas – but is all well in terms of the team’s preparations for the T20 World Cup? There are still questions for the defending champions as they try to polish and get ready for that tournament at home, and as the series against South Africa continues, many answers and more questions are bound to rise to the top. An exciting match awaits in Mullanpur!
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