IND vs SA: India's 11th consecutive win in T20Is, beat South Africa by 61 runs at home

IND vs SA 1st T20 Match Report: India beat South Africa by 61 runs in the first T20 match. In this match played in Durban, Team India batted first and scored 202 runs on the scoreboard, while in reply, the entire team of hosts South Africa was all out for 141 runs. Sanju Samson's century, Ravi Bishnoi and Varun Chakravarthy's lethal bowling played the most important role in the Indian team's victory. Samson scored 107 runs while Bishnoi and Chakravarthy took three wickets each

The Indian team was invited to bat first after losing the toss. Abhishek Sharma could not play a big innings, but Sanju Samson has made history by scoring a century in the second consecutive T20 match. He scored 107 off 50 balls and hit 7 fours and 10 sixes. Tilak Verma played a stormy innings of 33 off 18 balls and made an important contribution in taking India's score beyond 200. Patrick Kruger's 11-ball over became the center of discussion during the Indian innings

The South African team proved to be a failure
The South African team, chasing a target of 203 runs at their home ground, had a very poor start. Captain Aiden Markram was dismissed for just 8 runs and the hosts lost the wickets of all three top order batsmen by the score of 44. Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller shared a 42-run partnership, but Varun Chakravarthy gave a big blow to the African team by dismissing both of them in the same over. The day proved to be bad for Patrick Kruger as he could score only one run in batting after bad bowling

The Indian bowlers behaved in a rude manner
The Indian team did not bat well in the last 5 overs, but the bowlers made up for it. South Africa seemed to be struggling to build a big partnership from the start. By the time the score was 44 runs, the hosts had lost 3 wickets and by the time the score of 93 runs reached, 7 African batsmen 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 Chakravarthy and Ravi Bishnoi in the middle overs, Team India managed to win the match. Both of them took three wickets each, apart from this, Avesh Khan also took two and Arshdeep Singh also took one wicket

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