Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 cup 2009 India Vs South Africa"

After loosing both their matches india are already out of the tournment. Needs to see how they fare against a already semifinalist southafrica. SouthAfrica is on a high after defeating england and westindies quite convincingly. It will require a very good performance from india to win this match. Lets see how they fared.

First time in this tournment india lost the toss and were asked to field first. India started well by removing Gibbs in the second over. Then deVilliers and smith consolidated and moved the score board. When the spin attack was launched South Africa were out of sorts and kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. deVilliers kept his cool and held on to one end while South Africa was loosing wickets at other end. India came back into the game with their spin bowlers, even the part time spinners were giving a torrid time for South Africa batsmen. South Africa managed a below par total of 130 of their 20 overs. deVilliers top scored with 63 of 51 balls with 7 fours and for India Raina, Harbhajan, Jadeja, RP Singh and Zaheer took a wicket a piece.

This is a total which is easily chaseable. Lets see what india do after failing in their earlier encounters.

India started well with 48 runs in the first 6 overs. This start was enough for india to take home confortably. But once the spin was introduced in the 7 over india too kept loosin wickets. Can you believe that, the greatest palyers against spin were just loosing wickets for the same spin. Inspite of a late surge from Yuvraj and Harbhajan singh, india fell short by 12 runs. It was really a dissapointing show from indians after loosing their earlier two Super Eight matches. They were in a very comfortable position and lost the match by 12 runs. For india sharma scored 29 and Yuvraj scored 25 and for South Africa Botha and Steyn took 3 and 2 wickets respectively.

It was a pathetic performance by india, if they had won a match here they would have salvaged some pride. So this was the tale of indians at the second edition of the ICC World Twenty20 World cup.