Hardik Pandya made a blunder, Team India riding on the chariot of victory suffered defeat

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Hardik Pandya India vs South Africa: Two matches of the four-match T20 series being played between India and South Africa have been played so far. The Indian team took the lead by winning the first match of the series, but South Africa made a comeback in the second match and tied the series. Meanwhile, the Indian team was on the verge of victory at one point, but Hardik Pandya made a blunder, which later proved costly. Now there is a discussion on social media about why Hardik did this. Now India will have to win the remaining two matches of the series, only then will it win the series. 

Suryakumar Yadav lost the toss in both the matches of the T20 series being played against South Africa. After this, India had to come to bat first. In the first match, India scored more than 200 runs while batting first and also won the match, but got stuck in the second match. In the second match, Team India was behind from the beginning. After the dismissal of Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma, the score was not high, but still, it was believed that the Indian team would score at least 150 runs. But this did not happen. Somewhere Hardik Pandya was also the reason behind this. 

Team India had a chance to reach a score of 150

In fact, by 18 overs, Team India had scored 115 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. Two overs were left and Arshdeep Singh was at the crease with Hardik Pandya. 12 balls were left, it was expected that Hardik would show his flair in the remaining overs. On the second ball of the 19th over, Arshdeep took a single and gave the strike to Hardik. Before playing the third ball of the over, Hardik also told Arshdeep to stand at the other end and enjoy the match. 

Only 6 runs were scored in the last over. 

Hardik could not hit a single boundary on the four balls in that over. After this, if Hardik had hit four or five boundaries in the last i.e. 20th over, the job would have been done. But Hardik hit only one-four on the last ball of the innings. Meanwhile, two of his catches were also dropped in this over. Only 6 runs were scored in this over after playing the entire over i.e. 6 balls and Team India failed to score a big score. The Indian team could score only 124 runs and South Africa won the match with one over remaining.