Nishant Sindhu and Harshit Rana crush South Africa A for 132 all out in IND-A vs SA-A 2nd unofficial ODI

India A bowlers totally dominated the South Africa A batting line-up, who were bundled out for only 132 runs in 30.3 overs. The 21-year-old all-rounder Nishant Sindhu and the 23-year-old right-arm fast bowler Harshit Rana dominated with the ball to crush the visitors at Rajkot on Sunday (November 16).

Trailing the three-match series by 1-0, South Africa A chose to bat first after winning the toss in the second unofficial ODI. Although South Africa A had a better start with a 39-run partnership for the first wicket, they later lost wickets at regular intervals once that opening partnership was broken.

No big scores from South Africa A batters

Only five Proteas batters managed double-digit scores. Apart from the openers Lhuan-dre Pretorius (21) and Rivaldo Moonsamy (33), only the late middle-order batters Dian Forrester (22), Delano Potgieter (23), and Prenelan Subrayen (15) managed to reach double-digit scores, but all of them failed to make bigger marks.

Nishant Sindhu took 4 wickets, Harshit Rana bagged 3 wickets

The young all-rounder Nishant Sindhu, the left-arm spinner, picked up four wickets, including collapsing the lower-order batting. He finished the innings with the bowling figures of 7-1-16-4.

In the meantime, the right-arm fast bowler Harshit Rana shook the top-order batting, as he dismissed three out of the first four batters of the innings. Rana had the bowling figures of 5-1-21-3.

Also, Prasidh Krishna got two wickets (2/21), and the skipper Tilak Varma (1/12) got one wicket. In the meantime, Arshdeep Singh was wicketless in his four overs (4-0-33-0).

In the ongoing unofficial ODI series, Nishant Sindhu and Harshit Rana are jointly leading the most wickets table with five wickets each. While India A won their previous match by four wickets with three balls to spare, Rana picked up two wickets in that game, as he had the best bowling figures in that entire match (10-0-49-2).