LIVE Cricket Score, India vs South Africa 2nd ODI: Kohli-Gaikwad put on 100-run stand for IND vs SA in Raipur

IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa Today Match Live Score Updates: Virat Kohli 51(49) and Ruturaj Gaikwad 51(55) are in the middle for India 158/2 after 25 overs in the second of the three match ODI series in Raipur

India vs South Africa 2nd ODI Live Cricket Score Updates: Marco Jansen picked up Yashasvi Jaiswal for 22. India is two down. Earlier, South African skipper Temba Bavuma won the toss and opted to bowl first against KL Rahul’s India in the second of the three-match ODI series on Wednesday at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur. The hosts have already won the first game at Ranchi by 18 runs.

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Virat Kohli scored an imperious 135 in the first ODI, helping India post a massive 349 runs. He was well supported by the likes of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul. While the batting looked like a well-oiled machine, there were a few issues in the bowling department as the dew played its part.

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As per South Africa, they did look a bit shell-shocked during the powerplay as Rohit and Kohli went after the bowling, but once the intial phase was done, the bowlers did pull back things. With the bat, the top order struggled to score runs, but Marco Jansen and Matthew Breetzke’s partnership down the order did threaten to chase India’s massive total.

Teams

South Africa (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Aiden Markram, Temba Bavuma(c), Matthew Breetzke, Tony de Zorzi, Dewald Brevis, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Lungi Ngidi

India (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, KL Rahul(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna

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Dec 3, 2025 03:40 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Gaikwad vs Left-arm spinners

Keshav Maharaj has come back into the attack, and Ruturaj Gaikwad went after the bowler. He is extremely good against left-arm spinners. He has an imperious inside-out shot and also plays slog sweep quite effectively. The way this partnership is going and is laying the foundation, India once again should be looking at 330-340. We have seen in the first game, despite the score India has managed to get and the wickets they have tumbled with the new ball, South Africa still managed to get closer to the target because of the dew, and there will be a lot of it today as well.

Dec 3, 2025 03:30 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Kohli gets 50

Virat Kohli too has now got to his half-century. It has been a different innings from him compared to what happened in Ranchi. The wicket was different, the pitch was different, and it did require a different knock from him, which he delivered successfully, and he does tend to convert these half-centuries into centuries more often than not. With the amount of time that is left in this game, it is pretty much a probability that he will be scoring back-to-back centuries in this series after all the doubts that were raised on both RoKo.

Dec 3, 2025 03:19 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Gaikwad gets 50

Gaikwad has batted quite nicely here in the middle. He was troubled a bit when he walked in against Marco Jansen, but as the innings went on, the fluency came nicely, and once he got himself in, he stopped playing the attacking shots he did early on. One of the trade-mark of this partnership has been the hard running, and that is pretty important on ground sizes as big as this one in Raipur. As we update, he punched in another boundary and took a single to get a 50 here. That is maiden ODI half-century for Gaikwad.

Dec 3, 2025 03:10 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Short sharp bursts

Bavuma is bringing in the bowling changes here. One thing which has been noticeable, be it the last game or today, the South Africans have opted for their bowlers to bowl short, sharp bursts. Once again today, as we see apart from Keshav Maharaj, all the other bowlers have bowled short bursts of 3-4 overs. One way it does help them as it does not allow batters to settle against one type of bowling. On the flip side, though, if a bowler is planning a certain kind of dismissal, he won't be on attack for too long to implement it.

Dec 3, 2025 03:02 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: 50-run stand

A 50-run partnership between Kohli and Gaikwad has come up here. The duo, since getting together, has batted quite nicely. Kohli espically has shown a different side of his today. In the first game he started quickly and then adjusted his tempo as the innings went on but today he played it a touch on the safer side letting Gaikwad take the risks as the primary scorer. The challenge for these two now will be to convert this 50-run stand into 100 runs and lay a solid foundation for the batters to follow.

Dec 3, 2025 02:51 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Water break

We have reached the first water break of this game, and it must be said it is a shared passage, and if South Africa had not bowled all those wides initially, they might have been even ahead, but for now, it is what it is. Virat Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad are in the middle, although troubled a bit. Gaikwad has gotten himself a start here, and he should be looking to score a ton here and throw in his name for the contention to take that number four spot for the 2027 ODI World Cup. Kohli, on the other hand, is in his format, and he is doing what he does best, milking singles and getting into the rhythm of his batting.

Dec 3, 2025 02:40 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Jansen's brilliant spell

Marco Jansen is in the middle of a brilliant spell here. He is hitting the deck hard, and once again, it is the line which he is getting bounce from that is making it quite tough for the batters to deal with it. We have seen with Jaiswal that he did not have enough room to pull that delivery, yet he tried and got out. And the follow-up delivery to Gaikwad was even more terrific again, no room to either cut or pull, just got himself into an unusually awkward position. As we update, he did bowl another one of those bumpers, which Gaikwad pulled for a six.

Dec 3, 2025 02:28 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Jansen gets Jaiswal

Marco Jansen has picked up the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal here. It was a short ball from the bowler, which Jaiswal tried to pull and got it high on the bat, and the catch was taken by the mid-wicket fielder. And Jansen followed it with another terrific bumper to Ruturaj Gaikwad. He is in top form, Jansen is in his career, both with the ball and bat. As per Gaikwad, it is an opportunity for him. He got out in an unfortunate way in the first game. It was a terrific catch from Dewald Brevis at point. Today, similar to the previous game, he has time to construct his innings and make a big score for himself here.

Dec 3, 2025 02:20 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Ngidi comes into attack

Marco Jansen has come into attack here. It is an interesting ploy from Bavuma not to use Jansen with the new ball; instead gave it to Ngidi. While Jansen's new evolution can bowl at any stage of the innings but he has made his name himself bowling with the new ball and able to extract the swing and seam moment, and we have seen both the South African opening bowlers today had a tough time controlling it, and Jansen might have used that movement more effectively. And also on the flip side, Ngidi has slower deliveries, which will make him a better first change than the new ball bowler.

Dec 3, 2025 02:08 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Burger gets Rohit

Nandre Burger has picked up Rohit Sharma here. He did score a couple of boundaries did Rohit before Burger pulled his length back and Rohit edged one. He was not sure was Rohit if he has hit it and nor was Burger, but De Kock was convinced, and Bavuma did go upstairs, and there was a spike on the UltraEdge, and he had to go back. Virat Kohli has walked into the middle with a 100 in the previous game. The Indian number three is in good form. As per South Africa, for all the extras they have bowled, that dismissal might be what they need to gain some momentum and sort themselves.

Dec 3, 2025 01:58 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Good start

India has gotten away here. The bowling has been pretty poor from the South Africans. Yashasvi Jaiswal has had the bulk of the strike, and apart from the boundary of the first ball he has hit he hardly had to do anything, runs just were coming with ease because of the extras from South Africa. As we update, Rohit Sharma has scored his first boundary. He would be itching to face a few deliveries here, as not getting on strike for too long might just upset the rhythm of the batters. The way the new ball bowlers have started for South Africa, it might not be a bad ploy for Bavuma to think of bringing in Maharaj into the attack.

Dec 3, 2025 01:49 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: 11 wides already

South Africa has bowled 10 wides already in this game. As we update, Burger has slipped to the 11th wide. There is swing on offer, but the South African seamers cannot control it. Swing is something bowlers in this format crave for, as often its always it's always the batters who just hit at their will, but today South Africa has something to work with, and it might have to do with the way this ground is structured, but regardless, they are not able to capitalise on the advantage they have. They need to get their radar sooner rather than later here, do the South Africans.

Dec 3, 2025 01:39 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: 14 runs off first over

14 runs came off that first over. Nandre Burger was all over the place for Yashasvi Jaiswal. There was a bit of a late swing on offer for the bowler, which he could not control. Either he was too full and wide or was down the leg-side. One thing, though, that happened, De Kock had a torrid time dealing with late swing. It is a bit of a rare phenomenon in India to watch a ball swing after it has gone past the batter. It is only the 2nd ODI at this venue last time a game was played here. In New Zealand, where bundled out for a pretty low total, there was a lot of swing that day as well.

Dec 3, 2025 01:29 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI LIVE Cricket Score: Let's go!

The crowd is buzzing in the stadium here in Raipur. Once again, the fans got what they wanted, which is to see their stars Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli bat, which will happen pretty soon. However, Yashasvi Jaiswal will be hoping to get some runs and delay Kohli's arrival at the crease.

Dec 3, 2025 01:25 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Pitch report by Deep Dasgupta and Shaun Pollock

"We are right in the center, so it's 67m either side (square boundaries), straight down is 74m. From one end, it looks nice, dry and it looks like a good batting surface. On the other end, it's quite patchy. There are cracks and some dry spots, it looks a little bit uneven. You'll get some uneven bounce and you're going to get a two-paced surface. It isn't going to be as high-scoring as we saw in Ranchi. The other thing to be careful of is the reverse swing as it's quite abrasive. The other important thing is the dew as well, fair bit of dew and toss becomes that much more important. You definitely would want to chase."

Dec 3, 2025 01:15 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Temba Bavuma at toss

We are gonna have a bowl. (On the pitch) It's very hard to say, to be honest. We're hoping that as the night comes in, the dew comes in, it gets a bit easier with the ball skidding more. But it's very hard to say what it's going to play like. A lot of positives (from the last game). We did very well to get the game to that point, looking at the way we started in our first 10 overs of our batting, it shows that belief is there. We've got three changes. Myself, Keshav Maharaj and Lungi Ngidi will be coming in. No changes in terms of the combination. Big game for us, chance to keep the series alive.

Dec 3, 2025 01:15 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: KL Rahul at toss

(On losing another toss) Honestly, that's the most pressure I've had because we haven't won a toss in a long time. I've been practising, but clearly it's not working. I think we did really well last game. A lot of positives from the last game, so just trying to continue that. And, come out here, play hard cricket again. They pushed us last game as well. We know what to expect. The boys are looking in good shape. And I'm excited about this game. Before the series as well, we spoke about it (dew). This is a time in India where there is a lot of dew. We're expecting dew in every place that we play. So, the bowlers have spoken about it. A few tactics and a few things that we've spoken about, which I think we did really well in the last game. So, that'll give our bowling team a lot of confidence. Just carry from there and keep getting better. If we put runs on board and pick up a few wickets early on, then it becomes a bit easier for us. The wicket looks good. The only reason any team opt to bat second is the dew factor and not much to do with the wicket. We're playing with the same team.

Dec 3, 2025 01:08 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: South Africa playing XI

Quinton de Kock(w), Aiden Markram, Temba Bavuma(c), Matthew Breetzke, Tony de Zorzi, Dewald Brevis, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Lungi Ngidi

Dec 3, 2025 01:07 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: India playing XI

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, KL Rahul(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna

Dec 3, 2025 12:50 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Aakash Chopra on Yashasvi Jaiswal

“Yashasvi and Ruturaj, please score runs, because one guy is playing in the captain’s place and the other guy is playing in the vice-captain’s place. For how long will the captain and vice-captain stay out? They won’t remain out for long. So Yashasvi against left-armers, whether it’s Marco Jansen or Nandre Burger, please score runs,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.

Dec 3, 2025 12:40 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Harshit Rana on how he deals with critics

“With the new ball I am practicing a lot with Morne (Morkel) and I keep talking to Arshdeep a lot. I feel that Arshdeep has a lot of experience and he keeps helping and guiding me during practice,” Rana said.

“You know that bowlers do not get so much help in today’s cricket so this rule is very helpful for us and it is always on the mind to see which ball is getting older. And everyone is involved in choosing that ball,” he said.

Dec 3, 2025 12:30 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Harshit Rana on how he deals with critics

“If I start listening to all these things, put them in my mind and take the field, I won’t be able to play cricket. I try to avoid as much as possible. I just pay attention to what I have to do on the ground. I don’t care about what is happening outside or what someone is saying about me. I just focus on my hard work and what I am going to do on the ground,” Rana said on how he deals with the criticism.

Dec 3, 2025 12:20 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Madan Lal on Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma

“The first person to be criticised is the coach and the selector, I have been both, so they will get the criticism, never mind. As long as your conscience is right, that matters,” he said.

“If the team is not doing good then it becomes a case of (critics) going after the selectors. But if the team is not doing well then it is also a calculative thing that your coach is as good as your team.”

Dec 3, 2025 12:14 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Madan Lal on Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma

“It is their decision and not anybody else’s. So (it should be) whatever they decide,” Lal told PTI Videos on the sidelines of an Asian Legends League Season 2.

“But the way they are playing the ODI series, shows that they are still very, very fresh and look like they are some 28 or 30-years-old.

“The way Virat Kohli is running (between the wickets while) taking the singles and hitting the balls. It’s nice to see (the way they are going),” he added.

Dec 3, 2025 12:03 PM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Temba Bavuma on facing Rohit and Kohli

"Nothing new, we have come across it. We have been on the bad end of it. But we have also had good times against them. It all just makes the series a lot more exciting"

Dec 3, 2025 11:51 AM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: IND predicted XI

Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, KL Rahul (c/wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.

Dec 3, 2025 11:39 AM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: SA predicted XI

Quinton de Kock (wk), Ryan Rickelton, Temba Bavuma (C), Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Dewald Brevis, Corbin Bosch, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Nandre Burger/Prenalen Subrayen.

Dec 3, 2025 11:28 AM IST
IND vs SA 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Hola!

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