South Africa hosts the Caribbean team West Indies in the 3-match T20 series. West Indies won the first match of the series. At the same time, the second T20 match was played in Centurion. South Africa won the toss and invited the visiting team to bat first.
Batting first, West Indies scored 258 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. In response, South Africa won the match by six wickets, scoring 259 runs. With this, the African team has equalized 1-1 in the series.
Charles-Meyers Wreaks Havoc On African Batsmen
In the second T20, West Indies opener Kyle Meyers played a blistering inning. He played a fiery inning of 51 runs in 27 balls with the help of 5 sixes and four fours. After the Caribbean team got a good start, Johnson Charles’s batting in the middle order surprised everyone. He thrashed the South African bowlers fiercely.
Charles scored a century in just 39 balls, raining fours and sixes in all four stadium directions. This is the fastest century by a Caribbean batsman in T20 cricket. Charles returned to the pavilion playing an inning of 118 runs in 46 balls with the help of 11 sixes and ten fours. At the same time, in the end, all-rounder Romario Shepherd scored 41 runs in 18 balls to take the team to the highest total (258 runs) in T20 cricket.
De Kock Hendrix’s Stormy Innings Won
Johnson Charles made century in 39 balls
While Quinton de kock made century in 43 balls!
De kock played best knock of his T20 career…no words to describe….How many times do you see two centuries in both inning of T20#SAvsWI #SAvWI#IPL2023 #WPLFinal #IPL pic.twitter.com/7aCje8srYM
— Khan (@Khanmohammed12) March 26, 2023
To answer the target of 258 runs, the South African team got off to a great start. Team opener Quinton de Kock scored the fastest century. His innings of 100 runs in 44 balls kept Africa’s hope of victory alive.
Apart from this, the stormy half-century (68 runs) of Reeza Hendricks helped to take the team to a big total. Although de Kock returned to the pavilion with the score of 100 runs, his innings were not allowed to go in vain by captain Aiden Markram. Markram (38 runs *) batting smartly at one end gave the team victory.
