With 33 wickets, India\u2019s pace bowler Bhuvaneshwar Kumar became the men\u2019s Twenty20 International\u2019s leading wicket taker in the powerplay.<\/p>\n
Bhuvneshwar Kumar<\/a> delivered his first class game during the second of the five-match T20I series against South Africa on Sunday (June 12). In the powerplay, the veteran India bowler bowled a brilliant stint, taking three early wickets. While defending a 149-run mark, he castled Reeza Hendricks<\/a> for just 4 runs in the first over.<\/p>\n Bhuvneshwar Kumar got rid of the quick Dwaine Pretorius<\/a> in the second over of his session, scoring just four runs. Rishabh Pant<\/a> trusted him to bowl the third over, and he did not disappoint his captain.<\/p>\n Bhuvneshwar Kumar castled Rassie van der Dussen<\/a>, the star of the first T20I, for just one run in the final over of powerplay. The top pacer delivered a cracker of a delivery, pitching the ball outside off stump and it swung back in, thoroughly outclassing Van der Dussen. It landed on the top of the off-stump, putting an end to his time in the middle.<\/p>\n In the second T20I here on Sunday, Indian hitters struggled to get going against a tight bowling effort from South Africa, and were held to a paltry 148 for 6 on a slick Barabati<\/a> pitch. India\u2019s best scorer was Shreyas Iyer<\/a> (40), while Ishan Kishan<\/a> (21-ball 34) gave some early sparks, but the hosts lost momentum in the middle overs on a two-paced track. Karthik, the team\u2019s chosen \u2018finisher,\u2019 hit two sixes and two fours to bring the score up to a respectable level (30 not out from 21 balls).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa were rattled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar\u2019s superb performance as they chased a modest score of 149. Proteas was shaken by his 4\/13 spell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3269,3334,1587],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bhuvaneshwar-kumar","tag-ind-v-sa-t20i","tag-t20i-series"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}