India Vs South Africa Highlights, 2nd Women's T20I: Erring Women In Blue Suffer Second Straight Defeat

Hello cricket fans! We're back with another live blog of 2nd T20I between India women and South Africa women at Kingsmead, Durban on Sunday, April 19, 2026. Stay tuned for the live score and play-by-play updates of the match here.

Match: Indian women vs South Africa women

Venue: Kingsmead, Durban

Time: 5:30 PM IST

Currently South Africa is leading the series by 1-0 after winning the last match by 6 wickets. India posted a target of 158 for South Africa on the back of Harmanpreet Kaur's 47 not out but South Africa chased down the target quite with ease. Ayabonga Khaka was adjudged 'Player of the Match' for her 3 wickets.

South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt has won the toss and elected to bowl first. She expects the wicket to be slower than in the first game and thinks chasing would be better.

Harmanpreet Kaur, meanwhile, says "it's all about playing good cricket" and "giving 100 percent". She hopes the execution in bowling is better today than in the opener.

India Women: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh (wk), Arundhati Reddy, Anushka Sharma, Shreyanka Patil, Deepti Sharma, Shree Charani, Kranti Gaud

South Africa Women: Laura Wolvaardt (c), Sune Luus, Tazmin Brits, Annerie Dercksen, Anneke Bosch, Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Sinalo Jafta (wk), Ayabonga Khaka, Tumi Sekhukhune, Nonkululeko Mlaba

Tumi Sekhukhune has the ball in hand and Shafali Verma, playing her 100th T20 international, walks in to open alongside Smriti Mandhana for India. The wicketkeeper is standing up for Sekhukhune but Shafali is not perturbed as she stands and delivers, depositing the fourth ball over long off for six!

IND-W: 8/0 (1)

Smriti Mandhana (12 off 7) cracks three boundaries before holing out on the square leg fence off left-arm spinner Chloe Tryon. In comes Jemimah Rodrigues (2 off 4) and she too falls cheaply to Tryon. Shafali Verma, meanwhile is riding her luck and going hammer and tongs as India fetch 58 runs from the powerplay. Debutante Anushka Sharma joins her, meanwhile.

IND-W: 58/2 (6)

Fifty for Shafali! The opener makes her 100th India outing in T20Is special with a half-century off 29 balls. And she is not done yet, trying to power India to a strong total in Durban. Anushka Sharma is struggling to up the ante, in comparison.

IND-W: 78/2 (10)

Anushka Sharma takes a chance against Tryon and mistimes her lofted shot to be caught at cow corner for a 31-ball 28. Another left-arm spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba accounts for Shafali Verma, who is caught superbly by Nadine de Klerk for a well-made 38-ball 57. Deepti Sharma joins Harmanpreet Kaur in the middle.

IND-W: 110/4 (14)

The wickets continue to tumble for India as Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh and Harmanpreet Kaur all fall cheaply, with the skipper being run out. India now have Arundhati Reddy and Shreyanka Patil in the middle, with just two overs remaining.

IND-W: 127/7 (18)

What a disappointing collapse this has been from India. They were sitting pretty at 99 for 2 at one stage, and have lost their last eight wickets for just 48 runs to be bundled out for 147 in 20 overs. Let's see how they go about defending this total.

IND-W: 147 all out (20)

Kranti Gaud takes the new ball for India, and Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus walk out to open for South Africa. The Proteas skipper punishes a short and wide delivery with a cracking square cut to make her intentions clear at the outset. Ten runs off the first over.

RSA-W: 10/0 (1)

It's a torrid start for the Indian bowlers, as Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus take them to the cleaners in the powerplay. Shreyanka Patil, Sree Charani and Deepti Sharma all go for plenty as the Proteas plunder 66 runs in the first six overs to take a huge chunk out of the target.

RSA-W: 66/0 (6)

The rampage continues from Wolvaardt and Luus. India seem to have no answers for the Proteas openers as they take the hosts to a really dominant position. All 10 wickets are intact for South Africa and the asking rate is 5.6 runs per over. This match has almost slipped out of India's grasp; they need a miracle from here on.

RSA-W: 92/0 (10)

India finally break the opening partnership, with Shreyanka Patil getting Wolvaardt to hole out to Arundhati Reddy at long on. The Proteas captain gets to her fifty before that, and her partner Luus also goes past the half-century mark, unbeaten alongside Tazmin Brits. Just 25 more runs needed off 30 balls.

RSA-W: 123/1 (15)

And that's that. Tazmin Brits strokes Anushka Sharma's delivery through cover for a four and South Africa romp to victory inside the 18th over, with eight wickets in the bag. It's a second consecutive big loss for India, who were sloppy in the field and with the bat as well after the powerplay.

RSA-W: 148/2 (17.1) beat IND-W 147 all out (20) by eight wickets