Proteas set modest target for India

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AB de Villiers dives in vain as Rahul Dravid gets ready to dislodge him

A gritty 82 from Mornè van Wyk helped South Africa recover after a nightmarish start to the second match of the Future Series. At one stage, after Rahul Dravid had asked them to bat in overcast conditions, South Africa were reeling at 46 for 3, but an 85-run partnership between van Wyk and Jean-Paul Duminy resuscitated the innings. A late flourish from Mark Boucher took the score well past 200, and ensured that India would face a tricky run chase in the later afternoon.
van Wyk played and missed often early on, with the pitch affording both appreciable seam movement and bounce, but once his trademark cut shots started to find their range, the complexion of the innings changed. With the more graceful Duminy playing some gorgeous strokes down the ground, van Wyk played to his strengths, cutting and pulling with immense power when the bowlers erred in line or length.
There were moments of anxiety, most notably against the wiles of Piyush Chawla and Ramesh Powar, but with Ishant Sharma largely disappointing on his one-day debut, the runs started to come too quickly for Dravid's liking. As is so often the case, it was the desperate bowling change that did the trick, with Yuvraj Singh's left-arm spin accounting for both Duminy and van Wyk as the bat started to be thrown around.
Duminy cut a loose delivery straight to short third man, while van Wyk went for one cut too many. As in the opening game, India scented an opening, but this time it was Boucher that closed the door in their faces. There was a huge six over long on as Chawla went for 13 in his comeback over, and some hefty clouts off Powar, and with Andrew Hall joining in, 52 runs came at better than a run a ball. Yuvraj took a third scalp when he cleaned up Hall, but by then, South Africa had exceeded all but their own expectations.
A total of 226 had been unlikely at one stage, with Zaheer Khan and RP Singh bowling superb spells with the new ball. Making use of the conditions, they tied the batsmen down, and the frustration undoubtedly contributed to the dismissal of AB de Villiers, caught just short of his ground after being sent back by van Wyk.
The prized wicket came soon after, with Jacques Kallis - matchwinner in the last game with an unbeaten 91 - dragging an RP Singh delivery back on to his leg stump. Herschelle Gibbs got going with a nonchalant cover-drive, but when he drove lazily at Zaheer, India were very much in charge of proceedings. It took van Wyk's belligerence, Duminy's class and Boucher's ebullience to wrest control back. — Cricinfo