India defeated a listless South Africa team in the second ODI at Centurion by 9 wickets, after the Proteas team crumbled to 118 runs in the heat of the Indian spinners.
India won the toss and put South Africa into bat first, in what was Aiden Markram’s first match as South African captain. SA was without Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers, both missing due to injury and it showed in their batting.
After Bhuvneshwar removed Amla early, and De Kock went to a spinner again, South Africa batting crumbled under the mastery of Kuldeep and Chahal. Chahal picked his first five wicket haul in ODIs - 5/22 and Kuldeep picked 3/20. South Africa made 118 which is their lowest ODI total at home.
India chased down the target comfortably with 9 wickets in hand as Dhawan and Kohli added 93 runs for second wicket and Dhawan remained not out on 51 and Kohli on 46.
India were made to wait for 45 minutes for the win by umpires as they took a break for lunch with India needing just 2 runs to win.
Here are some tweets from the cricket fraternity, who celebrated a precision performance by the Indian team.
Brilliant performance by the Indian spin twins @yuzi_chahal & @imkuldeep18 today, It was difficult to say if they were bowling in South Africa or South India.#IndvsSA
— R P Singh (@RpSingh99) February 4, 2018
India haven’t beaten South Africa. This one is a thrashing. After the third test victory the body language has been so positive. Superb performances by @yuzi_chahal and @imkuldeep18 #INDvSA
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) February 4, 2018
Congratulations India in a resounding win. Not many teams can outplay South Africa in South Africa the way we did. @yuzi_chahal was simply outstanding and ably supported by @imkuldeep18 #SAvIND
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) February 4, 2018
India win the second ODI. Chahal might have to share his Man of The Match award with Cricket’s Quirky Laws ???????? #SAvIND
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) February 4, 2018
India has been amazing in both the ODI s and the wristies have been amazing, great effort to go 2-0 up and fingers crossed for 6-0. Well done imVkohli , @yuzi_chahal and @imkuldeep18 ????????????????????#INDvSA
— Ashwin Ravichandran (@ashwinravi99) February 4, 2018
So India have now won more games than South Africa on this tour #SAvIND
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) February 4, 2018
This is the only 2nd time India have managed to win successive ODI games against the home side in South Africa, since winning their ODI games @ Jo'burg and Cape Town in January 2011.#SAvInd
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) February 4, 2018