Uthappa, Dhawan, Rayudu, Yusuf, Raina, Irfan all were super flops, Team India struggled to score 100 runs; South Africa won by 88 runs
Team India Champions vs South Africa Champions Match Report: The sixth match of the World Champions of Legends was played between India Champions and South Africa Champions. In which AB de Villiers’ team won by a huge margin of 88 runs by Duckworth Lewis rule. Batting first, South Africa scored 208/6 in the stipulated 20 overs. In the reply innings, the entire Indian team was able to score 119 runs by losing 9 wickets in 18.2 overs. The heroes of this victory for the Proteas were captain de Villiers and Aaron Phangiso.
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Team India: Indian bowlers looked helpless in front of AB de Villiers
Team India: Losing the toss and batting first, South Africa set a target of more than 200. The biggest role in this was of de Villiers, who showed the same style for which he has been known. As soon as he came to the crease, de Villiers took charge and targeted all the Indian bowlers. He scored an unbeaten 63 runs in just 30 balls, which included 3 fours and 4 long sixes.
Team India: During this innings, de Villiers completed his fifty after facing only 28 balls. de Villiers scored these runs at a strike rate of over 200. Apart from de Villiers, the second highest run scorer for the team was JJ Smuts, who scored 30 runs in 17 balls. On the other hand, Yusuf Pathan and Piyush Chawla took 2-2 wickets from India.
Indian team’s star batsmen fell like clay dolls
Indian fans had hoped that Team India would not lag behind in chasing this target, because there are many strong batsmen in the playing 11. But all of them proved to be failures in front of South Africa’s bowling. Players like Robin Uthappa (2), Shikhar Dhawan (1), Ambati Rayudu (0) and Yusuf Pathan (5) could not even reach the 10 run mark.
At the same time, Suresh Raina (16) and Irfan Pathan (10) also performed brilliantly. Thanks to Stuart Binny whose unbeaten innings of 37 runs helped the team somehow cross the 100 run mark. Yuvraj Singh did not come to bat due to injury. By 18.2 overs, India had scored 111 runs after losing 9 wickets.
After this, the match did not resume due to floodlights problem and under DLS rule, South Africa won the match by 88 runs. For South Africa, Aaron Phangiso took 3 wickets for just 17 runs in his 4 over spell.
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