Durban:
South Africa vs India, 1st T20I: Amidst the preparations of the senior team for the Australia tour, Team Suryakumar made a great start to its campaign against the hosts South Africa, defeating the hosts by 61 runs in the first T20 match played in Durban on Friday. By winning the first match, India has taken a 1-0 lead in the four-match series. South Africa, chasing a huge target of 203 runs to win, got off to a bad start when Markram (8) was dismissed by Arshdeep early. One wicket fell, then the host team kept getting setbacks at regular intervals. South Africa did not get the kind of innings played by Sanju Samson from any batsman at one end. Captain Klaasen scored the maximum 25 runs for him. The host team was all out after scoring 141 runs in 17.5 overs. Varun Chakraborty and Ravi Bishnoi were responsible for this, who took three wickets each.
At the same time, India did not have a good start in the first innings, when Abhishek Sharma (7) was out soon, and captain Suryakumar Yadav (21) also could not stay on the wicket for long. But at one end, the explosive style of Sanju Samson (107 runs, 50 balls, 7 fours, 10 sixes) continued. They got good contribution from Tilak Verma (33), but Hardik Pandya (2) and Rinku Singh (11) could not contribute much. And India was successful in scoring 202 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs of quota. Gerald Coetzee took three wickets, while Marco Jason, Keshav Maharaj, Peter and Patrick Gruger took one wicket each.
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before this South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl first, The final XIs of both the countries that played in the match are as follows:
India: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakraborty, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan
South Africa: Ryan Rickelton (wk), Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Patrick Kruger, Marco Jansen, Andile Simelane, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Nakabayomji Peter
South Africa vs India, 1st T20I Live Cricket Score, Commentary
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