India vs South Africa, 1st T20I: India rout South Africa on a spiteful track

The first match of the three-match T20 series between India and South Africa was played in Trivandrum. Team India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. This decision was very good for him. Half of South Africa’s team went to the pavilion within 10 runs. South Africa scored 106 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Arshdeep Singh and Deepak Chahar did not give the South African batsmen any chance to stay at the crease. Batting in response, the Indian team won the match by scoring 110 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 16.4 overs. Jasprit Bumrah was not playing in this match and despite this the Indian team bowled tremendously. With the win, India have now taken a 1-0 lead in the series.

In this match with African batsmen, it was a matter of tu chal main aaya. Temba Bavuma (0), Quinton de Kock (1), Riley Russo (0), David Miller (0), Tristan Stubbs (0) looked helpless in front of the Indian bowlers. Wayne Parnell and Adam Markram tried to advance the innings but Markram too got out after scoring 25 runs. South African crossed the 50 mark in the 12th over with great difficulty.

From here South Africa faltered and crossed the score of 100. There was a time that South Africa would not be able to play even the full 20 overs, but in the end Keshav Maharaj scored 41 runs in 35 balls to take South Africa to a respectable score. For India, Arshdeep Singh took 3, Deepak Chahar and Harshal Patel took 2-2 and Axar Patel took 1 wicket.

Indian team got off to a bad start

Chasing a small target, the Indian team had suffered two major setbacks early on. Captain Rohit Sharma was dismissed for 0 and Virat Kohli scored 3 runs. After this, KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav took the innings forward. Both batted carefully and took the team’s score forward. Both remained on the ground and later batted vigorously. Both easily gave India victory with 20 balls to spare. Suryakumar Yadav hit his fifty in 33 balls. At the same time, KL Rahul also played an innings of 51 runs in 56 balls. There was an unbeaten partnership of 93 runs between the two. Kagiso Rabada and Norkhia took 1-1 wickets for South Africa.