india vs south africa first t20 match pitch report durban kingsmead stadium ind vs sa 1st t20

IND vs SA 1st T20 Pitch Report: The Indian team is going to tour South Africa after losing the Test series to New Zealand. The series of four T20 matches between the two teams is starting from November 8. The first match will be played in Durban. Suryakumar Yadav will be captaining Team India in the series, while Yash Dayal, Vijaykumar Vaishak and Ramandeep Singh have also been included in the squad. These three players can make their international debut in the upcoming series. First of all, let us know how the condition of the Durban pitch is going to be for the first T20 match.

High-scoring pitch in Durban

The first match of the series will be played at the Kingsmead ground in Durban. History has shown that it has been a high-scoring ground, on which the average score in the first innings is 153 runs, but in the second innings the average score comes down to 135 runs. So far 18 International T20 matches have been played at Kingsmead Ground, out of which the team batting first has won on 9 occasions and the chasing team has won on 8 occasions. There was no result of one match.

Difficult to understand the nature of the pitch

This figure is surprising that out of 18 matches, eight times the team that won the toss has won, while nine times the team that lost the toss has won. It is very difficult to assess the nature of the Durban pitch. Last year itself, Australia defeated South Africa by successfully chasing the target of 191 runs. This is also the biggest score that has been chased in Durban. India has so far played only one T20 match at the Kingsmead ground, which happened in the year 2007. In that match played 17 years ago, Team India had defeated South Africa by 37 runs. In that match, Rohit Sharma scored a fifty and RP Singh bowled lethally and took 4 wickets for just 13 runs in 4 overs.

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