At the same time, there have been some captains of India in T20 who started with a win in their first match. This includes the names of Virender Sehwag, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul and Suresh Raina, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni came on the field to captain for the first time in T20 against Scoland but the match was canceled due to rain but in the subsequent match. He had led the team to victory.
At the same time, after losing the toss in the second match of the ongoing home T20 series against South Africa, he was invited to bat first. Team India scored 148 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Shreyas Iyer played the most innings of 40 runs for India. Apart from this, Ishan Kishan contributed 34 and Dinesh Karthik contributed 30 runs.
Chasing the target of 149 runs given by India for victory, South Africa got off to a bad start. Opening pair captain Temba Bavuma and Riza Hendrix opened the innings for the team, where Hendrix was clean bowled on the sixth ball of the first over by bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. After that Dwayne Pretorius came to the crease. Pretorius also came under the grip of Kumar’s ball and was caught by Avesh Khan. After him, Rassie van der Dussen came to the crease.
Doosan, playing a brilliant innings in the first T20 match, took the match to victory, but this time Doosan got hit by Kumar’s delivery and returned to the pavilion after being clean bowled. After Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen came to the crease and led the innings with the captain. During this, Bhuvneshwar got three successes in back-to-back overs. During the powerplay, the team scored 29 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. Klaasen and the captain shared a 64-run partnership for the fourth wicket, which helped the team recover from the initial setbacks.
After this, in the end, David Miller played an unbeaten 20 runs in 15 balls to reach South Africa to the target with 10 balls to spare. With this, the visiting team has taken a 2-0 lead in this five-match series.