As they went down by 28 runs in the first T20 in Johannesburg, The defeat in the shortest format continues from South Africa’s slump in the ODIs where they lost 1-5. On Sunday, despite Reeza Hendricks’ resistance, he couldn’t power South Africa past the winning line. Plenty of credit for that should go to Bhuvneshwar Kumar who picked up his maiden T20 fifer.
“He (Bhuvneshwar) was just consistent in his areas which was pretty much giving us nothing to score off. So we had to be happy with ones and twos at that time,” said Hendricks who scored 70 off 50 balls.
“They just executed their plans well and kept it very simple. That’s pretty much it compared to what we did,” he added.
Despite good conditions for batting, Hendricks conceded that India bowled very well to contain the boundaries.
“Conditions were very good for batting. But Indians bowled really well. So I started slowly and then I had to get myself in and like I said, take it as deep as possible, with the wickets falling around. I managed to do that but would have loved to see the team home.”
“As an opening batsman, we obviously try to get a start, try and capitalise in the first six and then take it deep as possible. They obviously bowled well, we lost a few wickets so that meant obviously we had to stabilise the innings and build a few partnerships and try to take it as deep as possible,” he added further.
