Bavuma: We can draw a lot of confidence from Miller's performance

Proteas Twenty20 skipper Temba Bavuma said the team will take heart from David Miller's batting performance in a losing cause against India on Sunday.

India survived an unbeaten 106 by Miller to clinch their first ever T20 series against South Africa at home with a 16-run victory in the second match in Guwahati.

Suryakumar Yadav smashed 61 off 22 balls and put on a key 102-run stand with Virat Kohli, who made 49 not out, to drive India to 237-3 after being invited to bat first.

In reply, South Africa finished on 221-3 after a threatening 174-run unbeaten stand between Miller and Quinton De Kock (69) as the hosts took an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

South Africa suffered early setbacks after Bavuma got out for a seventh-ball duck off Arshdeep Singh who struck twice in his first over including Rilee Rossouw, also out for nought.

A brief interruption in play due a floodlight failure did little to change the tourists' fortunes as Axar Patel sent back Aiden Markram for 33.

But Miller then attempted to do something out of the ordinary as he became the leading run-getter for South Africa in the T20 format. He has 2 050 runs in 106 T20 internationals.

"It shows why David Miller is one of the best T20 batters going around," Bavuma said of the big-hitter.

"He is looking good, feeling good and we can draw a lot of confidence from his performance today."

The left-handed duo of Miller, who hit his second T20 century in 46 balls, and De Kock played valiantly but the asking rate proved too much in the end.

Earlier, KL Rahul (57) and skipper Rohit Sharma (43) put on 96 runs to lay the foundations of the mammoth total - India's fourth highest in T20 matches.

Suryakumar took over after the openers departed as he raced to his fifty