Match Report India VS South Africa

South African players were totally demolished, all thanks to the Indian fielding and batting department. South Africans were squeezed by the spinners and the fielders. Jadeja once again proved that he was Dhonis go-to man under pressure situations. His amazing fielding effort to remove Robin Peterson was a remarkable one.

Peterson and De Villers were bringing in a crucial match winning partnership which could have turned the match results around but as wickets kept falling at the other end, De Villers stood there until pressure for runs overruled him.

Indians fresh faces led to a blazing start of 331. Shikar and Rohith brought in a very vital opening partnership

which was very helpful for India winning the match. Even with all these madness around, Dhawan proved that these spot-fixing scandal had no effect on them. Even Rohith was up-to the mark which was unusual. Earlier in the innings, Rohith was only blazing around with his beautiful drives.both were never risking their wicket and played a strong and a fiery patnership but Rohith on 65 fell for a short delivery from Lowab Tsotsobe which he tried to pull on the leg side. Kholi did some damage util he was outsmarted by McLaren's slow ball which carried straight to Amla. Dinesh Karthick and MS Dhoni were not at their best and soon fell to McLaren and Tsotsobe. Ravindra Jadeja blistered 47 from 29 at the end of innings which helped India post a very competitive total of 331

But for South Africa, the loss of Collin Ingram and Hashim Amla was one of the huge drawbacks for South Africans loss. Ishanth and Yadhav along with Bhuvi were very expensive but picked up vital wickets of Amla, De Villers and Faf Du Plessis. David Millers suicidal run-out  was due to lack of coordination between Faf and Miller. In all Faf Du Plessis was an innings was the main reason why SA lost the match.

He dismissed David Miller and was on the verge of dismissing De Villers his innings was also not up to the mark. This events clearly show that he played a losing Innings. 

SA's bowling department was also not-so-good one. Moren Morkel was only bowler who was good but soon, he had to walk out as he was facing an injury. Already SA's leading pacer Styen is suffering injury. with Morne injuring himself, it adds more concern to De Villers side as both their leading pacers are in doubt for this leading tournament. 

The last time these two sides faced in the 50-50 format, they had all their prime players in the playing eleven Jack Kallis, Gream Smith, Dayle Styen, Sehwag, Tendulkar, Ghambir, Zaheer Khan are the players who were missing. Who knew that these sides would have a totally new young team the next time they face.