South Africa vs India 2018: India's probable playing XI for second T20I

When the ball is not doing much, Hardik Pandya feels the heat as a bowler: he was all over the place in the first T20I, spraying the ball on both sides of the stumps and not finding his rhythm. However, given the way the management backs him, his place is far from being under threat.

As is expected of him, he came in after MS Dhoni and scored a quick cameo to take the side past 200. The role seems to be ideal for him in the current line-up.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar's knuckleball is being talked about everywhere due to its deceptive efficiency; the variation accounted for a majority of the victims in his five-wicket haul in the first T20I, the first Indian to pick up a fifer in all three formats.

He extracts natural swing off the new ball and has been in tremendous touch across formats recently.