India has defeated South Africa by 61 runs in the first T20 match. In this match played in Durban, Team India batted first and scored 202 on the scoreboard, while in response, the entire team of host South Africa was all out after scoring 141 runs. Sanju Samson’s century, Ravi Bishnoi and Varun Chakraborty’s deadly bowling played the most important role in the victory of the Indian team. Samson scored 107 runs, while Bishnoi and Chakraborty took three wickets each.
After losing the toss, the Indian team was invited to bat first. Abhishek Sharma could not play a big innings, but Sanju Samson has created history by scoring a century in the second consecutive T20 match. He hit 7 fours and 10 sixes while scoring 107 runs in 50 balls. Tilak Verma played a stormy innings of 33 runs in 18 balls and made an important contribution in taking India’s score beyond 200. During the Indian innings, Patrick Kruger’s 11-ball over became the center of discussion.
South African team proved to be a failure
South African team, which came out to chase the target of 203 runs on their home ground, had a very bad start. Captain Aiden Markram was out after scoring just 8 runs and the host team had lost the wickets of all three top order batsmen by the score of 44. Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller made a partnership of 42 runs, but Varun Chakraborty gave a big blow to the African team by dismissing both of them in the same over. This day proved to be bad for Patrick Kruger because after poor bowling, he could score only one run in batting.
Indian bowlers wreaked havoc
The Indian team did not bat well in the last 5 overs, but the bowlers compensated for it. South Africa was seen struggling to make a big partnership from the very beginning. The host team lost 3 wickets by the score of 44 runs and by the time the score reached 93 runs, 7 batsmen of Africa had returned to the pavilion. The situation was such that South Africa had to score 125 runs in the last 10 overs, but due to the deadly bowling of Varun Chakraborty and Ravi Bishnoi in the middle overs, Team India was successful in putting the match in its favor. Both took three wickets each, apart from them Avesh Khan took two and Arshdeep Singh also took one wicket.
