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The second T20I of the ongoing four-match series between India and South Africa is scheduled to take place at St. George’s Park in Gqeberha today.
The second T20I of ongoing four-match series between India and South Africa is scheduled to take place at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on Sunday. (Picture Credit: AFP)
The second T20I of the ongoing four-match series between India and South Africa is scheduled to take place at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on Sunday (November 10). India won the series opener by 61 runs in Durban on Friday, and the world No. 1 T20I side would like to maintain the super show in the second match as well to go 2-0 up in the bilateral series.
India has played one T20I at St George’s Park in the past but suffered a defeat by five wickets against the Proteas in that game.
Here’s a look at top performers and record-holders for India in T20Is played so far at St George’s Park in Gqeberha:
- Result summary: 1 defeat in one T20I.
- Highest total: 180 for 7 in 19.3 overs against South Africa on December 12, 2023.
- Most runs: 68 by Rinku Singh.
- Highest score: 68 not out from 39 balls by Rinku Singh against South Africa on December 12, 2023.
- Highest strike rate: 174.35 by Rinku Singh.
- Most 50s: One half-century each by Rinku Singh and Suryakumar Yadav.
- Most ducks: 1 zero each by Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Arshdeep Singh.
- Most sixes: 3 maximums by Suryakumar Yadav.
- Most wickets: 2 wickets by Mukesh Kumar.
- Best bowling figures: 2 wickets for 34 runs in three overs by Mukesh Kumar against South Africa on December 12, 2023.
- Most catches: 2 catches by Mohammed Siraj.
- Highest partnership: 70 runs for the 4th wicket between Sanju Samson and Suryakumar Yadav against South Africa on December 12, 2023.
India will have high hopes from Sanju Samson in the second T20I after he scored a magnificent century in the series opener. During his stay at the crease in Durban, the right-handed wicketkeeper-batter faced 50 deliveries and, with the help of seven fours and 10 sixes, scored 107 runs.
His 107-run knock is the highest score by any player in T20I matches played so far between India and South Africa, and he also holds the record of being the first Indian and Asian batter to hit back-to-back centuries in the shortest format of the game for Men in Blue.
