Sanju Samson’s powerful century, then Rinku-Hardik failed; South Africa was given a target of 203 runs

IND vs SA 1st T20: India has scored 202 runs against South Africa in the first T20 match. Thanks to Sanju Samson’s century, Team India managed to cross the score of 200 runs and now host South Africa will have to score 203 runs to win. Samson scored the most runs for the Indian team, who played an inning of 107 runs. Let us tell you that India has won 10 consecutive T20 matches and due to this huge score, it has laid the foundation of winning the 11th consecutive match.

South Africa won the toss and invited the Indian team to bat first. Abhishek Sharma again failed, who returned to the pavilion after scoring only 7 runs. Captain Suryakumar also got out after scoring 21 runs. Tilak Verma definitely impressed by playing an inning of 33 runs in 18 balls, but the biggest hero of the Indian innings was Sanju Samson, who completed his century in 47 balls and scored 107 runs in 50 balls. He hit 7 fours and 10 sixes in his innings.

Team India failed in the last 5 overs

At one time, the Indian team had scored 167 runs at the loss of 2 wickets and by the end of the 15th over, the team’s score was 167 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. Team India could score only 35 runs in the next 5 overs. Where India was once dreaming of a score of 230-235, the performance in the last 5 overs spoiled the entire game. The Indian team also lost 6 wickets in the last 5 overs. Hardik Pandya could score only 2 runs, while Rinku Singh also returned to the pavilion after scoring only 11 runs. Akshar Patel, who returned to the T20 team, also could not do anything special, scoring 7 runs in 7 balls.

Marco Jansen bowled the hardest for South Africa, taking one wicket for 24 runs in 4 overs. On the other hand, Gerald Coetzee definitely took 3 wickets, but also gave away 37 runs. Patrick Kruger became the center of discussion during this innings, who took the wicket of Suryakumar Yadav but was also embarrassed due to bowling 12 balls in an over. Apart from all this, Keshav Maharaj, Nakaba Peter and Andile Simelane took one wicket each.

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