🏏SA vs India, 2nd ODI: St George's Park, Gqeberha 🏏 - Page 26

Tony de Zorzi | Player of the Match: I'm fine. Just a bit stiff. Was a flood of emotions to be honest, I first thought of my mom, she would have been back from work, there are a lot of doubters and happy to prove them wrong. Rob and JP spoke to me on what they kind of expected from me at the top of the order. At the Wanderers would have been nice to extend it. I would say adaptable and decent at adapting to conditions. [has it sunk in yet?] Probably not - was quite cool to go to the band and everyone is clapping there, I will never forget a moment like this.

Aiden Markram | South Africa captain: A lot better than a couple of days ago. Much better all-round performance. Was still quite a tough wicket when we went to chase and the openers to fight like that was great. The breeze played quite a bit of a factor. Nandre is wasted from the top end with the wind blowing behind his back. Might as well see him bowl rockets. Chopped and changed a lot today and bowled great areas and execution was great. We did that in the middle overs and carried through the end. The ball was moving around even now. Not a 300 wicket, but a high 200 wicket is my guess but I could be completely wrong. [on de Zorzi] It was huge from him, only played a couple of games, to be not out like that and to see the chase over the line is a special feat from him. Hope he enjoys it tonight and the whole dressing room was in awe of him, the way he constructed the innings. Hopefully the first of many. [on the loss at Wanderers] We can't accept performances like that and that's the first thing we addressed. With bat on hand we let ourselves down, whatever they set today, the mindset was to chase it down. A much more confident unit after today.

Highest opening partnership at St George's Park

130* - T de Zorzi & R Hendricks vs IND, 2023*

129 - M Clarke & B Haddin vs SA, 2009

121 - K Otieno & R Shah vs IND, 2001

ODI hundreds as an opener for SA vs IND since 2013

6 - Quinton de Kock

1 - Hashim Amla

1 - Tony de Zorzi*

Congratulations to South Africa for winning the match.

Congratulations to Tony de Zorzi for winning the Player of the Match award.

Cheers..

Women's Test Match: :Eng vs Ind

AUSW 178/8 (57.5)

CRR: 3.08

Day 1: 2nd Session

Vastrakar grabbed 4 wickets so far.