South Africa picked up three injuries in the first innings of the second ODI against Bangladesh, two of which could be potentially long term and see players miss out in their next matches.
It started early in the day, with Lungi Ngidi hobbling after hitting his knee awkwardly on the ground but proceeded to continue with the game anyway. The commentators speculated that he might have an ankle injury as well, but that is not confirmed at the moment.
South Africa were in deep trouble after Wayne Parnell walked off after bowling 2.5 overs, incurring a left hamstring injury. As per the latest updates from Cricket South Africa, he is currently being assessed and there are chances that he would not be taking any further part in the current game.
In the absence of Parnell, captain Temba Bavuma filled up the bowling duties, and did considerably well bowling for the first time in an One Day International. He bowled 6.1 overs for just 22 runs but got injured while trying to grab a sharp chance off his own bowling. He was seen walking off the ground to get a treatment and got back after heavily bandaging his middle finger.
Bavuma was further seen wincing in pain after he stopped a powerful short in the short mid wicket position. After getting hit, Bavuma chose to not continue bowling and Rassie van der Dussen picked up duties off him and to his credit got a wicket bowling the penultimate over of the game.
Bangladesh could not carry their form into the second match of the series and were reduced to 34/5 inside the first 15 overs. They rebuild from their owing to a steady partnership by Afif Hossain and Mehidy Hasan Miraz. The duo were looking strong to put a respectable total on the board but lost their wickets in the 46th over of the game against two very well hidden slower deliveries from Kagiso Rabada. Rabada was the pick among the bowlers, clasping 5 wickets in the game, while Lungi Ngidi, Wayne Parnell, van der Dussen and Tabraiz Shamsi bagged one each.
This was a good bowling outing for South Africa who used pace and bounce to good effect and kept their opposition to just 194 runs in their registered 50 overs.