Match Details
10:26 PM IST: South Africa win the second ODI against the Netherlands by 8 wickets to go 2-0 up in the rescheduled ODI series. Skipper Temba Bavuma played a brilliant undefeated knock of 90 continuing his good run of form to guide the Proteas home before the bowlers did their job well to bundle out the Dutch at 189.
Bavuma tossed the coin right and decided to bowl first at the Willowmoore Park in Benoni. The Dutch openers Vikramjit Singh (45) and Max O'Dowd (18) provided a solid start adding 58 runs for the first wicket but wickets kept falling at regular intervals as the men in orange bundled for an eventual 189 in the 47th over.
Teja Nidamanuru top scored with 48 off 71 deliveries hitting 3 sixes but besides Vikramjit and him there was no resistance on show from the batters. Tabraiz Shamsi (3/25) was the pick of the bowlers and got good support from Sisanda Magala (3/37), Anrich Nortje (2/24), Marco Jansen (1/27) and Aiden Markram (1/30).
In response, the Proteas lost their opener Quinton de Kock early in the innings for just 9 when Aryan Dutta got Netherlands their first breakthrough in the 6th over of the innings. Bavuma opening the innings with de Kock then added 70 runs with Rassie van der Dussen (31) to get the home side in the leading position.
Fred Klaassen bowled a brilliant spell and dismissed van der Dussen in the 19th over propelling Aiden Markram to the crease who added an unbeaten 102 runs with Bavuma to seal the chase which was fittingly finished by Bavuma with a boundary on the final ball of the 30th over.
Aryan Dutt (1/30) and Fred Klaassen (1/51) were the only wicket takers for the visitors with Paul van Meekeren bowling beautifully throughout the innings but finished wicketless. Markram brought up his 6th half century and Bavuma got to his third in the format missing out on the fifth ton of his ODI career by just 10 runs.