Varun Chakravarthy’s spin again worked like a magic. He picked the wicket of South African opener on the very first ball of his spell in India vs South Africa 2nd T20I match in New Chandigarh.

The second T20 match between India and South Africa is being played at the Maharaj Yadavindra Singh International Stadium in Mullanpur. Team India captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and elected to bowl first. Reeza Hendricks and Quinton de Kock opened the innings for South Africa. Indian mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy then provided India with the first breakthrough.

Varun Chakravarthy clean bowled Reeza Hendricks

Suryakumar Yadav gave the fifth over of South Africa’s innings to spinner Varun Chakravarthy . Varun clean bowled South Africa’s star opening batsman Reeza Hendricks with his very first ball of the match. Reeza Hendricks was caught off guard by Varun Chakravarthy’s delivery and was left flat on his back. The ball hit the middle of the stumps, scattering the bails. Reeza Hendricks was out for 8 runs off 10 balls.

At the time of writing this report, South Africa has scored 79 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in 9 overs. Star opener Quinton de Kock is in excellent form and has scored a half-century. Captain Adam Markram is batting on 13 runs off 17 balls.Here is the

Playing 11 of both the teams:

Team India’s playing 11: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Verma, Axar Patel, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh.

South Africa’s playing 11: Reeza Hendricks, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Aiden Markram (captain), Dewald Brewis, David Miller, Donovan Ferreira, George Linde, Marco Johnson, Lutho Sipamla, Lungi Ngidi, Othniel Bartman.

Watch the wicket-taking delivery here