The trophy has been handed to South Africa on the back of two excellent, all-round performances. The focus shifts to the ODIs now, which begins on Friday. Hope to have your company then. This is Alagappan Muthu, signing off
Faf du Plessis is the Man of the Series. "They were much better in putting up a fight. Our boys played a great two match series. In tough conditions, we batted really well and we bowled really well too. Banana on the outfield for Kyle Abbott. At the end of the day, they don't make mistakes on purpose. We're practicing hard. It's extremely humid. AB's face was about to explode in the heat. We need to battle longer now. In the ODs and the Tests. They've done really well in one-day cricket. But its important for us that we have put our own statement out by winning this 2-0. We respect them, and we'll play our best cricket"
"There are some positives. And we have to learn from our mistakes too," Mashrafe says, "It was an off day as a fielding ground. So hopefully we'll come back in the one-dayers. [Temperement] After the start, we lost too many wickets. But we haven't played too many T20s recently. Not an excuse. We just have to improve. We've just been concentrating on ODIs and Tests. As a professional team though, we have to come and perform. We have to fight. We couldn't fight here at all. Hopefully that changes"
4.00 pm Eddie Leie, on South Africa debut, is Man of the Match. "very pleased. Very good start. But hte credit goes to the batters. the way AB and Quinton started and the way Rilee and MIller finished set the bowlers up. I just thought I had to keep it simple and hit my lengths. With the humidity, it was hard to grip the ball. Just tried to keep it wicket to wicket. It's great. It's an environment everyone wants to be in. Just very happy to be around such great players"
3.50 pm A pretty thorough performance from the visitors again and their reputation against spin, and in bowling spin keeps growing. They've found another pleasing legspinner in Eddie Leie, who trusts in flighting the ball and using his googlies. Big smiles from Phangiso as well, who was quite effective despite Bangladesh having a lot of left-handers. Then the fast bowlers came back to mop up the tail. Good old fashioned cricket.
Mashrafe Mortaza wanted his batsmen to show better application, but today his team was sloppy in the field and that's more the reason why they lost. There were too many runs to chase down on this slow pitch. The only time they threatened was when Soumya Sarkar was playing like a dream. He's one to watch out for in the future. Times the pants off the ball. He'll need to play longer innings now. Has to convert his promise
3 South African bowlers took 3-wkt hauls during the 2nd T20I against Bangladesh, the first time for any team in T20I history
— Bishen Jeswant (@bishen_jeswant) July 7, 2015
Prushanta: "In the end, the AB-DeKock start made all the difference..."
Abhijit Naik: "MEN of the match: AB, de kock, Leie, Phangiso, and Russow. #HuntingInPacks"
James: "Nice to see the death over yorker is not an endangered species! Best ever at it, i think was Big Bird Joel Garner. Wonder how he'd have fared in modern day T20? Pretty well, i suspect." --- Oh Waqar has to be stiff competition
Mustafizur Rahman b Abbott 0 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
Rony Talukdar b Abbott 21 (34m 22b 0x4 1x6) SR: 95.45
END OF OVER:19 | 8 Runs | BAN: 137/8 (33 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 7.21, RRR: 33.00)
- Arafat Sunny5 (5b)
- Rony Talukdar21 (21b)
- Wayne Parnell3-0-29-1
- Kyle Abbott3-0-19-1
Warren: "Dissapointed that Leie did not get his 4th over.... Could have taken a Michelle! Great bowling by the debutant." --- Perhaps it's too late in the piece to trust a spinner
Parnell's back... Bowling around to the right-hander, with 41 off 12
END OF OVER:18 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | BAN: 129/8 (41 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 7.16, RRR: 20.50)
- Rony Talukdar17 (18b)
- Arafat Sunny2 (2b)
- Kyle Abbott3-0-19-1
- Aaron Phangiso4-0-30-3
Mashrafe Mortaza b Abbott 17 (12m 8b 0x4 2x6) SR: 212.50
Abbott's back
Kiran: "Irony is, with all those heroics, the RRR stil went up in 17th over"
END OF OVER:17 | 15 Runs | BAN: 124/7 (46 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 7.29, RRR: 15.33)
- Mashrafe Mortaza17 (7b)
- Rony Talukdar14 (15b)
- Aaron Phangiso4-0-30-3
- David Wiese2-0-17-0
Imran: "@Stiaan What about Stephen Harmer? I thought he had a solid debut vs West Indies, and South Africa were settled with making him their regular test spinner after years of inconsistency from Tahir"
Stiaan: "Unfortunately for SA, these spinners are more or less limited over specialists, so the hunt for a quality test spinner must continue..."
END OF OVER:16 | 6 Runs | BAN: 109/7 (61 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 6.81, RRR: 15.25)
- Rony Talukdar12 (13b)
- Mashrafe Mortaza4 (3b)
- David Wiese2-0-17-0
- Aaron Phangiso3-0-15-3