• South Africa won the toss and choose to bat
• South Africa beats Australia by 12 Runs
• Quinton de Kock got Man of the Match Award
• With this win, South Africa equals the 3 Matches series by 1 – 1

In the 2nd T- 20 at St George’s Park, South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first and with the African captain de Kock inning of 70 runs, South Africa scored 158 runs in the 20 overs with loss of 4 wickets. DeKock hits five 4’s and four 6’s in this inning.

After a half-century from Captain Quinton De Kock, Lungi Ngidi’s great bowling helped South Africa to beat Australia by 12 runs in the second T-20 match. Warner (67) gave a good start to Australia but unable to finish Australia inning in the last. Due to this Australia lose the match by 12 runs. With this win, South Africa equals the 3 matches T- 20 series by 1-1 and the T-20 series reached an exciting turning point. The last match of the series will be played on 26 February at Cape Town Ground.

Scorecard:

South Africa                                                                                  158 – 4 (20 Overs)

Extras – 4 (lb3,b0, nb0,w 1, p0)

Did not Bat

Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi

Australia                                                                                        146 – 6 (20 Overs)

Extras – 12 (lb7, b1, nb1, w3, p0)

Did not bat

Pat Cummins, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa

• South Africa won the toss and Choose to Bowl
• Australia beats South Africa by 107 Runs
• Ashton Agar take 5 wickets with a hat-trick and got Man of the Match Award
• Australia take lead by 1 – 0 in 3 Matches T – 20 series

On Friday, at The Wanderers Stadium, Australia beat South Africa by 107 runs and recorded the biggest win against South Africa in T- 20 matches. South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first. And the African bowlers take 1st wicket of Australia quickly at just 4 runs. Still, after that, Australian batsman didn’t lose their momentum and scored 196 runs in 20 overs with the loss of 6 wickets and gave the target to Africa of 197 Runs.

In reply, African openers unable to give the good start to Africa, they lose the 1st wicket by giving just 2 runs. After that, all African batsman lose their wickets quickly and they scored just 89 runs in 14.3 overs. That is the lowest total of South Africa in T-20’s. Ashton Agar took 5 wickets in 4 overs by just giving 24 runs including a hat-trick.

Scorecard:

Australia                                                            196 – 5 (20 Overs)

Extras – 14 (lb 2,b 0, nb 0,w 12, p0)

Did not bat

Pat Cummins, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa

South Africa                                                   89 – 10 (14.3 Overs)

Extras – 7 (lb 0,b 0, nb 0,w 7, p0)