India beat SA; Are D(hon)isappointed

India made no changes to their playing eleven.

South Africa made seven changes to the (Mork)eleven that (Am)last played the Indians – Richard Levi, Colin Ingram, Justin Ontong, Dane Vilas, Wayne Parnell, Juan Theron and Lonwabo Tsotsobe made way for Hashim, A B de Villiers (who was leading the team, and inserted the Indians on winning the toss), Faf du Plessis, Jean-Paul Duminy, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn and Morne.

The Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They had scored 36, and lost three wickets.

Gautam Gambhir, whose 12-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. Twenty-one balls into the match, Morne broke the 23-run stand.

Virat Kohli, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored a couple. Eight balls later, he was caught by de Villiers. Needless to say, Jacques Kallis was in seventh heaven.

Virender Sehwag, whose 14-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 17. Four balls later, Peterson broke the six-run stand.

India scored 50 off 7.4 overs (46 balls). South Africa had conceded nine extras at that point.

Yuvraj Singh, the player of the match, scored 21 off 15 balls, which included a boundary and a couple of sixes. Twenty-seven balls later, Morne broke the 32-run stand.

India scored 100 off 13.5 overs (84 balls). South Africa had conceded 11 extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Rohit Sharma, whose 27-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 25. Half-a-dozen overs after Yuvraj’s dismissal, he was trapped leg before wicket by Peterson, who broke the 44-run stand.

India scored 150 off 19.4 overs (119 balls).

The sixth-wicket pair put on 40. Suresh Raina, whose 34-ball innings included five boundaries, scored 45. Four overs later, Johan Botha and de Villiers ran him out.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, scored 23 off 13 balls, which included three boundaries. He was unbeaten.

India scored 152 for the loss of half-a-dozen wickets off 20 overs. Duminy and du Plessis bowled a wicketless over apiece. While the former conceded half-a-dozen, the latter conceded three. Botha, who bowled three wicketless overs, conceded 30. Steyn bowled four wicketless overs, including a maiden. He conceded 26.

Kallis, who bowled three overs, conceded 24. He picked up a wicket. Morne and Peterson bowled four overs each, picking up two scalps apiece. While the former conceded 28, the latter conceded 25.

The Powerplay of South Africa’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They had scored 46, and lost a couple of wickets.

South Africa’s openers didn’t get off the mark. Amla, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls into the chase, he was caught by Sehwag off the bowling of Zaheer Khan.

Kallis, whose eight-ball innings included a boundary, scored half-a-dozen. Nineteen balls later, he was caught by Sharma. Irfan Pathan broke the 16-run stand.

De Villiers, whose run-a-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 13. Sixteen balls later, Yuvraj broke the 30-run stand.

South Africa scored 50 off seven overs (42 balls). India had conceded an extra at that point.

Du Plessis’ half-century – which included three boundaries and a couple of sixes – came off 29 balls. He eventually scored 65 off 38 balls, which included half-a-dozen boundaries, in addition to the aforementioned number of sixes. Thirty-nine balls after de Villiers’ dismissal, he was caught by Raina. Yuvraj broke the 49-run stand.

South Africa scored 100 off 13.2 overs (80 balls). India had conceded an extra at that point.

Duminy, who faced 23 balls, scored 16. Fourteen balls after du Plessis’ dismissal, he was caught by Gambhir. Lakshmipathy Balaji broke the 12-run stand.

Farhaan Behardien, whose 12-ball innings included a boundary, scored 13. Fourteen balls later, he was caught by Gambhir. Khan broke the 20-run stand.

The seventh-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Peterson, whose run-a-ball innings included a boundary, scored 10. The next ball, he was dismissed by Khan.

Botha, whose five-ball innings included a six, scored eight. Eight balls later, he was caught by Raina. Ravichandran Ashwin broke the 11-run stand.

Albie Morkel, whose six-ball innings included a six, scored 10. Three balls later, Balaji had a reason to be in seventh heaven.

Steyn, who didn’t face a ball, was unbeaten.

South Africa scored 150 off 19.4 overs (119 balls). India had conceded four extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Morkel, who faced three balls, scored half-a-dozen. His runs came by way of a six. Three balls after his brother’s dismissal, Balaji broke the six-run stand.

South Africa, who were dismissed for 151 off 19.5 overs, lost by a run. Sharma, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded 13. Pathan, who bowled three overs, conceded 26. He picked up a wicket, as was Ashwin, who bowled four overs, conceding 27.

Yuvraj, who bowled four overs, conceded 23. He picked up a couple of wickets. Balaji, who bowled 3.5 overs, conceded 37. He picked up three scalps, as was Khan, who bowled four overs, conceding 22.

Both India and South Africa were knocked out.