'What a MASTERCLASS' - Fans hail the Indian team as they clinch the series with a win in 2nd T20I against South Africa

The men in blue locked horns with the South Africans in the second of the three-match T20I series. Both teams played this match at the Barsapara Stadium in Guwahati. The visitors’ skipper Temba Bavuma won the toss and asked the Indians to bat first. Batting first, Rohit’s men posted a mammoth total of 237 runs for the loss of three wickets on the board in the all0ted 20 overs.

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While chasing the target, The Proteas could manage to score only 221 runs in 20 overs and fell short of the target by 16 runs. Indian cricket fans were left in awe of the Indian cricket team for an amazing performance in the penultimate encounter of the three-match series.

They took to Twitter for appreciating and heaping their praises on the men in blue for an outstanding outing just ahead of the marquee tournament later this month.

Here’s how fans reacted to the series win of India against South Africa:

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Whar a MASTERCLASS from our Batters!!!💥💥👏🤩
Everyone was Just Outstanding 💥💯🇮🇳🤩..
Hoping they will carry it to #T20WorldCup also..🤞🧿🙌#INDvsSAT20I #IndVSa #ViratKohli𓃵 #RohitSharma𓃵 #dineshkarthik #KLRahul𓃵 #SuryakumarYadav pic.twitter.com/TMaVCSAauT

— Nisha Sharma (@NishaSharma2804) October 2, 2022

@surya_14kumar has been performing consistently in t20i's with such a good strike rate
He deserves that fucking no 1 rank#indvssa #INDvsSAT20I #Suryakumaryadav

— Chokli (@Chokli9) October 2, 2022

Both are tired…No strength left in De Kock and Miller…in humid conditions like this u need contributions from the entire batting unit…you can do it alone bcs u will be drained out #INDvsSAT20I

— Samip Rajguru (@samiprajguru) October 2, 2022

Indian team suddenly looking like and playing like RCB of 2016#viratkohli #suryakumaryadav #rcb #INDvsSAT20I #BCCI #kicchasudeep

— Rohan (@VikrantRohan) October 2, 2022

Rsa are going to be the most feared side of this wc. They are scoring 200 even after one opener playing maiden and other scoring run a ball for most of the innings#INDvsSAT20I

— Mir Qazim... (@mqazim_41) October 2, 2022

Furthermore, talking about the match, then the Indian team got a mind-blowing start of 96 runs for the first wicket from the opening pair of skipper Rohit Sharma and senior batter KL Rahul. KL Rahul smashed a quick half-century of 59 runs off just 28 balls with five boundaries and four maximums whereas skipper Rohit Sharma also made 43 runs off 37 balls with seven boundaries and a six.

Other than these two, Suryakumar Yadav’s swashbuckling knock of 61 runs off just 22 balls with five boundaries and the same number of sixes became the highlight of the Indian innings. Skipper Virat Kohli also contributed with a very vital knock of 49 runs off 28 balls with seven boundaries and a six. Keshav Maharaj ended up as the only bowler for the Proteas to scalp two wickets.

While chasing the target, the Proteas faced some early blows as they lost their two wickets only on the score of one in the second over. Senior wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock and veteran batter David Miller went on play crucial knocks of and runs respectively. Although, their efforts went in vain as South Africa couldn’t cross the line and scored 221 runs in 20 overs. Eventually, India won the match by 16 runs and took a winning lead in the series by a margin of 2-0.

KL Rahul won the ‘player of the match award for his match-defining performance for the Indian team.