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India will be facing South Africa in the second T20I at the St George's Park in Gqeberha on Tuesday, 12 December after the first T20I match got abandoned without toss due to rain. The Men in Blue are coming into the series after a five-match T20I series win against Australia on their home soil and they would look forward to play the remaining two T20Is as a preparation for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024, which is all set to happen in around six months' time.
Numbers and stats ahead of SA vs IND 2nd T20I game:
1 - South Africa in 2023 have won only one out of six T20I matches that they played so far.
South Africa team's T20I series results in 2023:
- Lost to West Indies by 1-2 margin (Home)
- Lost to Australia by 0-3 margin (Home)
South Africa's only win came in Centurion where they went onto chase a humongous total of 259 runs against the Caribbean side.
2 - South Africa have won two out of three T20I matches that they played at St George's Park in Gqeberha.
South Africa team's results in T20Is at St. George's Park in Gqeberha:
- Lost to West Indies by 5 wickets in 2007
- Beat New Zealand by 33 runs in 2012
- Beat Australia by 12 runs in 2020
If we look at above results, it's pretty clear that South Africa have always batted first at that venue in T20Is so far.
4 - Suryakumar Yadav needs 15 more runs to become the fourth batsman to complete 2000 runs for India in T20Is.
Most runs for India in men's T20I:
- Virat Kohli - 4008 (107 inns)
- Rohit Sharma - 3853 (140 inns)
- KL Rahul - 2265 (68 inns)
- Suryakumar Yadav - 1985 (55 inns)
Fastest to reach 2000 runs in T20Is by innings batted:
- Babar Azam - 52
- Mohammad Rizwan - 52
- Virat Kohli - 56
- KL Rahul - 58
Suryakumar Yadav could equal Virat Kohli's record for being the fastest to complete 2000 runs in T20Is by innings batted.
5 - Indian team have won five out of seven T20I matches against South Africa on South African soil.
IND vs SA in T20Is on SA soil:
- India won by 6 wickets in Johannesburg in 2006
- India won by 37 runs in Durban in 2007 T20 World Cup
- India won by 21 runs in Durban (Moses Mahbida Stadium) in 2011
- South Africa won by 11 runs (D/L method) in Johannesburg in 2012
- India clinched three-match bilateral T20I series by 2-1 margin in 2018
58 - Arshdeep Singh has taken most wickets (58) in T20Is among Test playing nations since 2022.
Most wickets in T20Is since 2022:
- Yalinde Nkanya - 60 (Tanzania)
- Arshdeep Singh - 58 (India)
- Martin Akayezu - 55 (Rwanda)
- Alpesh Ramjani - 55 (Uganda)
161.96 - David Miller has a strike rate of 161.96 against India in T20Is. He has scored the most runs for South Africa against India in T20Is.
David Miller vs India in T20Is:
- Inns - 15
- Runs - 379
- Avg - 47.37
- S.R - 161.96
- 50s - 2; 100s - 1
David Miller in the last three T20I innings against India was seen smashing a century (106*) in Guwahati in 2022 and a fifty (59*) in T20 World Cup 2022 in Perth.
185.14 - Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav has a strike rate of 185.14 against South Africa in T20Is.
Suryakumar Yadav scores vs South Africa in T20Is:
- 50*(33) in Thiruvananthapuram, 2022
- 61(22) in Guwahati, 2022
- 8(6) in Indore, 2022
- 68(40) in Perth, 2022 T20 World Cup
Suryakumar Yadav has smashed three fifties against South Africa in the four T20I innings that he has played so far.
206 - Ishan Kishan has scored 206 runs against South Africa in T20Is from just five innings at an impressive strike rate of 150.36 which happened on June 2022.
Ishan Kishan vs South Africa in T20Is:
- 76(48) in Delhi, 2022
- 34(21) in Cuttack, 2022
- 54(35) in Visakhapatnam, 2022
- 27(26) in Rajkot, 2022
- 15(7) in Bengaluru, 2022
