India, April 19 -- For a few months now, Harmanpreet Kaur's India have looked a pale shadow of their bubbling, bristling self that lifted the ODI World Cup five months back. The slide that began in Australia in February where they were blanked 0-3 in the ODIs before losing the only Test by 10 wickets showed no signs of slowing down on Sunday as they suffered their second successive defeat in Durban in the five-match T20I series.

Lax in the field, listless with the bat and toothless with the ball, India were dealt an eight-wicket shellacking by Laura Wolvaardt's South Africa who chased down India's 147 without breaking a sweat. The hosts still had 17 balls to spare when Tazmin Brits hit Anushka Sharma through extra cover for the boundary ...