Team India have made a brilliant start to the five-match T20I series against South Africa after their 101-run win in the first game in Cuttack on Tuesday. Suryakumar Yadav’s side will look to continue their winning run as they take on the Proteas in the second game at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium Mullanpur in New Chandigarh on Thursday. Weather can play a major role in the team selection of both sides as fog as well as dew is expected to play a big role in Thursday night’s clash. The minimum temperature in Chandigarh is expected to dip to 9 or 10 degrees by the time the game ends at night as winter seasons is already here in the north of India. It will be interesting to see if India will gamble on playing chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav at Mullanpur stadium considering that Punjab Kings leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has been very successful at this venue during IPL matches. If Kuldeep does come back into the side he will be replacing Arshdeep Singh with Hardik Pandya taking the new ball with Jasprit Bumrah. South Africa on the other hand crumbled to 74 all out chasing 176 to win in the first T20 and will look to boost their batting strength for the second game. As a result all-rounder Corbin Bosch or George Linde can replace pace bowler Lutho Sipamla. Sanju Samson is expected to be sideline once again as Jitesh Sharma may get the nod ahead of the new Chennai Super Kings recruit. Jitesh claimed four catches behind the stumps in the first T20 match in Cuttack on Tuesday. Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav and his deputy Shubman Gill are both under pressure after lean runs in the T20I format. While has only scored 263 runs in 13 innings in T20I cricket with a best of 47 ‘Sky’ has only managed 222 runs in 19 games at an appalling average of 13.87 with a best of 39 not out. “With 7-8 batters there will be days when 2-3 batters won’t have their day but then the other 4 batters will cover it up and they did cover it up today. Maybe in the next game you’ll see someone else covering it up. That’s how T20 cricket goes and that’s how we want everyone to play. We want everyone to be fearless and enjoy their batting” Suryakumar Yadav said after the 1st T20.   Travel Day ✅ Hello from Chandigarh #TeamIndia | #INDvSA | @IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/lWKfY9R5Ie — BCCI (@BCCI) December 10 2025 India vs South Africa 2025 2nd T20 Predicted Playing 11 India: Abhishek Sharma Shubman Gill Suryakumar Yadav (c) Tilak Varma Jitesh Sharma (wk) Hardik Pandya Shivam Dube Axar Patel Arshdeep Singh Varun Chakravarthy Jasprit Bumrah South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk) Aiden Markram (c) Tristan Stubbs Dewald Brevis David Miller Donovon Ferreira Marco Jansen Lutho Sipamla/Corbin Bosch/George Linde Keshav Maharaj Lungi Ngidi Anrich Nortje