India made five changes to their playing (Pat)eleven – Naman Ojha, Ashok Dinda, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha and Vinay Kumar made way for Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India’s skipper, who chose to bat on winning the toss), Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra and Twenty20 International debutant Munaf.
South Africa made nine changes to the (Mork)eleven
that (Am)last played the Indians – Jacques Kallis, Loots Bosman, Graeme Smith,
Albie, Mark Boucher, Roelof van der Merwe, Rory Kleinveldt, Dale Steyn and
Morne Morkel made way for Morne van Wyk, Hashim, Colin Ingram, David Miller,
Johan Botha (who was leading the team), Robin Peterson, Wayne Parnell, Juan ‘Rusty’
Theron and Makhaya Ntini (who was playing his last Twenty20 International).
Murali Vijay, whose 12-ball innings included three
boundaries, scored 14. Sixteen balls into the match, he was caught by van Wyk.
Parnell broke the 18-run stand.
India scored 50 off 5.1 overs (31 balls). South Africa
had conceded a couple of extras at that point.
Virat Kohli, whose 19-ball innings included five
boundaries, scored 28. Twenty-nine balls later, Botha broke the 49-run stand.
India scored 100 off 12 overs (72 balls). South Africa
had conceded a couple of extras at that point.
Rohit was the player of the (Shar)match. His
half-century – which included five boundaries and a couple of sixes – came off
32 balls. He eventually scored 53 off 34 balls. Thirty-two balls after Kohli’s
dismissal, he was caught by Ntini. Jean-Paul Duminy broke the 42-run stand.
The fourth-wicket pair put on a run. Yuvraj Singh,
whose 13-ball innings included a boundary, scored a dozen. A couple of balls
later, Miller and Peterson ran him out.
Yusuf Pathan, who faced eight balls, scored
half-a-dozen. Seventeen balls later, Theron broke the 26-run stand.
India scored 150 off 17.5 overs (107 balls). South
Africa had conceded three extras at that point.
Suresh Raina, whose 23-ball innings included a couple
of boundaries and three sixes, scored 41. Four overs after Pathan’s dismissal,
he was caught by Miller. Theron broke the 32-run stand.
Dhoni, who faced 11 balls, was unbea‘ten’.
South Africa eventually conceded four extras. India
scored 168 for the loss of half-a-dozen wickets off 20 overs. Peterson, who
bowled three overs, conceded 20. He was wicketless, as was Ntini, who bowled
four overs, conceding 46.
Duminy, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded a
dozen. He picked up a wicket. Botha, who bowled three overs, conceded 25. He
picked up a wicket. Parnell, who bowled four overs, conceded 25. He picked up a
wicket. Theron, who bowled four overs, conceded 39. He picked up a couple of
scalps.
Amla, who faced three balls, scored a run. Eight balls
into the chase, Ashish Nehra broke the six-run stand.
Ingram, who faced eight balls, scored just a couple.
Eighteen balls later, he was caught by Kumar. Patel broke the 25-run stand.
South Africa scored 50 off 5.3 overs (33 balls). India
had conceded half-a-dozen extras at that point.
Van Wyk’s half-century – which included four
boundaries and five sixes – came off 24 balls.
The third-wicket pair put on 50 off 24 balls. While
van Wyk’s contribution to the partnership was 35, A B de Villiers’ contribution
to it was 14. Extras’ contribution to the partnership was a couple.
The third-wicket pair eventually put on 57. De
Villiers, whose 10-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, failed to add
to the aforementioned score. Twenty-nine balls later, Nehra and Raina ran him
out.
Duminy, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t get off
the mark. Three balls later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Yuvraj, who
broke the one-run stand.
Van Wyk, whose 39-ball innings included five
boundaries and as many sixes, scored 67. Half-a-dozen balls later, he was
caught by Nehra. Kumar broke the four-run stand.
South Africa scored 100 off 12 overs (72 balls). India
had conceded eight extras at that point.
Miller, whose eight-ball innings included a six,
scored 10. Thirteen balls later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Pathan,
who broke the 15-run stand.
Peterson, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored a
couple. Eleven balls later, he was caught by Kohli. Pathan broke the 12-run
stand.
Parnell, whose 16-ball innings included a boundary,
scored 14. Twenty-three balls later, he was caught by Pathan. Ashwin broke the
21-run stand.
Botha, whose 22-ball innings included a boundary and a
six, scored 25. Five balls later, he was caught by Sharma. Nehra broke the
three-run stand.
Theron, who faced four balls, scored a run. He was
unbeaten, as was Ntini, who faced a couple of balls, scoring a run.
India eventually conceded 10 extras. South Africa, who
scored 147 for the loss of nine wickets off 20 overs, lost by 21 runs.
Patel, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 26. He
picked up a wicket. Kumar, who bowled three overs, conceded 17. He picked up a
wicket. Ashwin and Yuvraj bowled four overs each, picking up a wicket apiece.
While the former conceded 33, the latter conceded 20.
Pathan, who bowled three overs, conceded 22. He picked
up a couple of scalps, as did Nehra, who bowled four overs, conceding 22.
India won the one-off match.
