India vs South Africa 1st T20I Highlights: IND thrash SA by 61 runs
- India vs South Africa 1st T20I Highlights: Sanju Samson's century followed up by Varun Chakravarthy and Ravi Bishnoi's virtuoso spells held IND cruise.
India vs South Africa 1st T20I Highlights: Sanju Samson's century, followed by some clinical bowling led by spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Ravi Bishnoi, helped India beat South Africa by 61 runs in the first T20I in Durban. Samson's 107 off 50 balls helped India to a score of 202/8 batting first. Chakravarthy and Bishnoi then stifled the South African middle order and they were eventually all out for just 141 runs in 17.5 overs. Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan and Chakravarthy all struck in the powerplay. David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen were in the middle at the end of that period but Chakravarthy and Bishnoi ensured that they could hardly score at their regular rate. Both batters fell to Chakravarthy in the 12th over after which Bishnoi got two wickets as well in the 13th over, thus all but ending any chances South Africa had of chasing the target down. While Gerald Coetzee provided some late entertainment to the crowd, Avesh Khan finished it off by cleaning up Keshav Maharaj. ...Read More
Sanju Samson earlier became the first Indian batter to score centuries in two consecutive T20I matches. Samson raced to his century in just 47 balls and his innings included seven fours and a whopping 10 sixes. It was a bit of a procession of wickets after he was dismissed by Nqabayomzi Peter in the 16th over and India finished their innings on 202/8. Samson had earlier got his half-century in just 27 balls as he and Suryakumar Yadav gave the visitors an explosive start. Suryakumar then fell at the end of an extraordinarily long over filled with extras from Patrick Kruger after which Tilak stood with Samson as he raised his century. South Africa captain Aiden Markram earlier won the toss and chose to bowl first at Kingsmeade.
In what could be a high-octane rematch of the 2024 T20 World Cup final, South Africa are preparing to host India at Kingsmead in Durban as the two teams begin their four-match T20I series to kick off South Africa’s big home summer. Although there are plenty of personnel changes between that tense and famous World Cup final and the teams that will be put out onto the field on Friday, there will still be the air of this being something of a revenge series for the Proteas following the heartbreak at Barbados.
The hosts will be captained still by Aiden Markram, but will be looking to replace Quinton de Kock who has ruled himself out of the series. While de Kock isn’t officially retired from the T20I format, CSA will be looking at alternatives for their talismanic left-handed opener.
Beyond the questions of how a Reeze Hendricks-Ryan Rickleton opening duo might look, South Africa’s middle order will remain their strength. Aiden Markram at number three will be followed by a terrifying 4-5-6 in the form of Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, and David Miller. The trio threatened to win the World Cup final for South Africa, and in home conditions, are capable of setting fire to even the most high-quality bowling lineups. Proficient against both spin and pace, India’s largest concern will be how to dismiss the trio before they can cause too much damage in the death overs.
South Africa also are expected to hand a debut for Durban native Andile Simelane, an all-rounder who could extend the batting order, which was the concern for the Proteas and their ultimate Achilles heel in Barbados. On the bowling front, they will be without Kagiso Rabada, who they have rested for upcoming Tests, as well as Anrich Nortje. A combination of Gerald Coetzee, Ottneil Baartman, and Marco Jansen will likely be the frontline pacers, while Keshav Maharaj will be their spinner at Kingsmead.
Meanwhile, the visiting India team will be captained by Suryakumar Yadav, and will have a range of their own changes throughout the lineup. A powerful and destructive opening partnership of Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma will be tasked with getting the powerplay off to a powerful start, comfortable with the pace and bounce that will be on offer throughout the series.
Tilak Varma is expected to get a start, likely at number three, after a few months away from the team while other players got their chance. Tilak will want to use this opportunity to stake his claim as one for India’s white-ball future. Meanwhile captain Suryakumar will keep his preferred number four position in the middle order. Hardik Pandya seems to have hammered home the number five with his ability to contribute on two fronts, and allows for Rinku Singh to bat at number six as an out-and-out finisher for this Indian team. There is plenty of power on offer in this Indian lineup, but in a transitional phase, they will want to start seeing consistency from the likes of Abhishek and Samson.
In the bowling department, Axar Patel will likely be the spinning all-rounder at number seven, offering batting depth and control, but will be wary of being taken apart as he was in Barbados by Klaasen. India will likely have an all-rounder of their own debuting — will it be the batting-first Ramandeep Singh, who also provides a dynamic presence in the field, or the more typical number eight in Vijaykumar Vyshak? Vyshak’s offers slightly more with ball which might see him get the nod initially, but expect both players as well as Yash Dayal to get their debuts on this tour.
Finally, Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan are two players who are expected to start for India, and their death bowling will be under scrutiny against South Africa’s powerful batting.
Whatever the combinations, power-hitting and plenty of highlights will be on offer as these two teams pit their titans against each other in the first match of what promises to be a hotly-contested series in South Africa.
Highlights from India vs South Africa 1st T20I:
- South Africa were all out for 141 in 17.5 overs and India won the match by 61 runs
- Klaasen and Miller both fell to Chakravarthy in the 12th over after which Bishnoi took two wickets in the 13th
- Ravi Bishnoi and Varun Chakravarthy stifled Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller for runs after the powerplay
- South Africa lost three wickets in the powerplay
- India got to a score of 202/8 in 20 overs
- Sanju Samson scored a second consecutive T20I century in 47 balls
- Sanju Samson raced to a half-century in 27 balls
- Aiden Markram won the toss and South Africa are bowling first
- India and South Africa meet for the first time since the T20 World Cup final
- South Africa have lost 0-3 to West Indies and drawn 1-1 to Ireland
- India have gone on a 10-match winning streak in T20Is after a shock loss to Zimbabwe right after the T20 World Cup final
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- Nov 09, 2024 12:11 am IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: India beat South Africa by 61 runs
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Avesh Khan finishes it off. India's winning streak continues in rather emphatic fashion, just as it did in the previous match. Avesh with a very full delivery, almost a yorker, on off stump. Maharaj heaves at it and misses it. The wickets take a tumble. Before that, Coetzee's entertaing cameo came to an end in the previous over when he was run out after a mix-up with Maharaj. South Africa are all out for 141 runs in 17.5 overs. India thus take a 1-0 lead in the four-match T20I series. Sanju Samson, unsurprisingly, is the player of the match. The second T20I will be at St George's Park in Gqeberha on November 10.
- Nov 09, 2024 12:02 am IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Back to back sixes from Coetzee!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Gerald Coetzee with the night's entertainment for the home crowd. Pandya bowls his third over in the 16th, three runs off his first four balls and then Coetzee picks the bones out of a shortish delivery outside off, sends it into the crowd past long on. The next ball is hit even higher and longer, over deep square leg for another six. Coetzee misses his heave last ball, he is on 22 off 10. South Africa need 74 to win off 24.
- Nov 08, 2024 11:51 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: South Africa drag themselves past 100
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Marco Jansen and Gerald Coetzee in the middle. They both can bat but it's a tad bit difficult to see them scoring 102 runs off the remaining 36 balls. That is what South Africa need. They have been completely outplayed today. Meanwhile, Axar Patel just bowled his first over, in the 14th over! Eight runs off it and he could've got his first wicket as well off the last ball but Coetzee's miscued shot doesn't quite carry to Rinku Singh tearing in from long on.
South Africa 101/7 in 14 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:47 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Two wickets in an over again!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: South Africa falling in a heap now. Simelane has no idea about that googly, rocks back and misses it entirely. The ball hits the pads, India appeal and the umpire raises his finger.
- Nov 08, 2024 11:45 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Now Bishnoi strikes
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Bishnoi had been integral in building pressure on Klaasen and Miller and so he gets the wicket he deserves. It is flighted full and wide and lures Kruger into the drive. He ends up slicing it to backward point.
Kruger c Pandya b Ravi Bishnoi 1 (2)
South Africa 87/6 in 12.1 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:41 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: GONE! Miller in the same over!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: This is the last over of Chakravarthy's spell and it is safe to say that he has won the match for India in it. On the shorter side, Miller miscues his attempted big hit and it goes straight to the fielder at deep square leg. It was short and on the pads, Miller would have sent that out of the park on most days, but not today.
Miller c Avesh Khan b Varun 18 (22)
South Africa 87/5 in 12 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:40 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Klaasen's struggle ends
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Six and out for Klaasen. He had sent the second ball of that 12th over soaring over deep midwicket for a six. But he couldn't do more as he goes for another next ball, ends up holing out at long on.
Klaasen c Axar b Varun 25 (22)
South Africa 86/4 in 11.3 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:35 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Chakravarthy and Bishnoi stifle SA
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Just 2 runs in the 10th over and one run in the 11th. A nightmare period for Miller and Klaasen. Miller is on 17 off 20 at the end of the 11th over from Bishnoi, Klaasen on 19 off 20. Their strike rates in disarray thanks to these overs from Chakravarthy and Bishnoi. Chakravarthy to bowl out in the 12th over.
South Africa 79/2 in 11 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:24 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: 10 runs in the 8th over
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Chakravarthy returns for the eighth over after Pandya bowls the first one after the powerplay. Klaasen gets off strike first ball. Samson asks Chakravarthy to bowl at the stumps but he doesn't, Miller punishes him by sending it flying over dep midwicket. Three more singles in that over, Miller is on 13 off nine, Klaasen on 12 off 13.
South Africa, 68/3 in 8 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:18 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Powerplay ends, South Africa 49/3 in 6 overs
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: A good powerplay for India because of the three wickets that fell. Miller punished Chakravarthy for going short and wide fourth ball by sending it to the boundary for a four. Miller ends the over on four off four, Klaasen on two off six.
South Africa 49/3 in 6 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:12 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Rickleton goes! Wicket No.3 in the powerplay
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Varun Chakravarthy strikes with just his second ball of the match! Gives it some flight on length on middle and leg. Rickleton rocks back and tries to hit it over long on, it goes off the bottom of the bat and Tilak Varma takes the catch at that fielding position. South Africa have lost three wickets in the powerplay and out comes David Miller to join Klaasen. It is these two who had got South Africa close to victory in that T20 World Cup final against India before it all went wrong.
Rickelton c Tilak Varma b Varun 21 (11)
South Africa 44/3 in 5.2 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 11:01 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: OUT! Avesh gets Stubbs
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE Score: Stubbs has got off to a slow start and the pressure does the job. He tries to go over mid-off, ends up hitting it straight into the hands of Suryakumar Yadav there. It was a back of a length delivery outside off.
Tristan Stubbs c Yadav b Avesh Khan 11 (11)
South Africa 30/2 in 3.3 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 10:55 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Back to back fours and 9 runs in the 2nd over
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Rickleton pierces the offside second ball of that over bowled by Avesh Khan after getting on top of the bounce quite nicely. Then Avesh goes full, Rickleton saw it coming 10 years ago and produces a gorgeous cover drive for another four. He gets off strike after which Avesh keep Tristan Stubbs pinned with a couple of absolute peaches.
South Africa 19/1 in 2 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 10:40 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: OUT! 4, 4, and gone for Aiden Markram!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: EDGED AND GONE! Markram done by the movement in the air, the ball straightening up after pitching on a good length. Markram tries to hit through the line, outside edge and Samson takes the catch. Markram had hit an exquisite cover drive previous ball for a four and had hit the ball before that to the boundary as well.
Markram c Samson b Arshdeep Singh 8 (4)
South Africa 8/1 in 0.4 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 10:37 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Here we go again!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Allright, Arshdeep Singh starts the Indian attack. He will be bowling to South Africa captain Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickleton at the other end.
South Africa need 203 to win
- Nov 08, 2024 10:36 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Now for the chase…
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: The Indians walked out less than five minutes after the end of the innings and they have been standing out there in a huddle ever since. They look a relaxed bunch. India could score just 35 runs in the last five overs and lost five wickets. Now while they still reached 202, which is a big score, wonder if that late slowdown will cost them considering South Africa have significant firepower.
- Nov 08, 2024 10:20 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India 202/8 in 20 overs
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: A flurry of wickets in the end and India restricted to 202. We say restricted because it did look like they will score well over 220 when Samson was going big guns. Rinku fell in the 19th over to Coetzee after which Jansen dismissed Axar Patel off the first ball of the last over. Ravi Bishnoi was then run out off the last ball.
- Nov 08, 2024 10:04 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: WICKET! Pandya is the next man to go
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India are going for everything and so wickets can fall quite rapidly. Coetze bowls it short and wide outside off fifth ball of the 17th, Pandya takes it on but miscues the shot. Jansen takes the catch at deep point.
Pandya c Jansen b Coetzee 2 (6)
India 181/5 in 16.5 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:55 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: GONE! Samson's epic knock is over
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Samson had hit a six over long on the previous ball from Peter. Then Peter seems to surprise Samson somewhat with the bounce fourth ball of the 16th over, it has been hit into the breeze and Stubbs takes the catc at deep midwicket. A truly extraordinary innings has come to an end.
Samson c Stubbs b Peter 107 (50)
India 175/4 in 15.4 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:51 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: OUT! That's it for Tilak Varma
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: A length ball from Maharaj, Tilak wants to smash it out of the continent of Africa but loses shape. Jansen does well to take the catch at the deep square leg boundary.
Tilak Varma c Jansen b Maharaj 33 (18)
India 167/3 in 14.4 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:44 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: CENTURY AGAIN FOR SANJU SAMSON!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: He has got there in just 47 balls. What a patch of form this man is in, it's his second consecutive ton in T20Is.
- Nov 08, 2024 09:42 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: 18 runs in the 13th! Samson into the 90s!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: It's a carnage in Durban. There was threat of rain, well, it is raining boundaries allright. Tilak gets off strike first ball of the 13th bowled by Simelane. Then Samson goes 4, 4, 6, the last of those shots being just the most gorgeous lofted cover drive. A wide next ball and then two singles. Samson is on 92 off 44, Varma is on 16 off 11.
India 142/2 in 13 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:34 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Samson racing along
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Well he is just unstoppable at the moment. A six and a four off the 11th over by Maharaj and then a four a six off the 12th by Peter. He has moved to 77 off 40, Tilak on 14 off nine. Is it going to be a second consecutive T20I century for him?
India 124/2 in 12 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:29 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: 10 overs gone, India on 99
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Tilak Varma finishes off that 10th over emphatically. Andile Simelane is the bowler, bowls the last ball marginally short outside off. Tilak rocks back and and smashes it with the wind offside and into the stands. Tilak is on seven off four balls, Samson is on 59 off 33 balls.
India 99/2 in 10 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:18 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: OUT! A WICKET AT THE END OF A NEVER-ENDING OVER!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: How about that, Patrick Kruger seemed to have lost the plot in that over but at the end of it all, he gets the top dog! Suryakumar Yadav goes! This was the 11th time Kruger was running in for that over, having bowled a no ball third ball and then bowled a wide, a no ball and then two consecutive wides all for the fourth ball of the over. Both batters got a pair of singles after that and then Suryakumar truies to hit the last ball with the wind leg side but can't clear the fielder yet.
Suryakumar Yadav c Simelane b Kruger 21 (17)
India 90/2 in 9 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:08 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: BACK-TO-BACK SIXES! And Samson reaches fifty again
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Samson raises his half-century in just 27 balls. He really is in a lovely purple patch at the moment. Nqabayomzi Peter bowls the eighth over, goes short on middle and leg second ball and Samson blasts it over deep midwicket for a six. He goes with the same shot again next ball and that is six as well and this brings up Samson's fifty in just 27 balls. That travels despite being hit against the wind. Two singles after that in the over and Samson is on 51 off 28 balls, Suryakumar on 17 off 12.
A bit of a drinks break, or a timeout, after that over and VVS Laxman is among those who walk on to the field.
India 75/1 in 8 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 09:02 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: End of powerplay! India 56/1 in 6 overs
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India's average score in powerplays in the last 10 matches or so has ben around 57/2 and so this is almost exactly on point there. Samson has moved to 35 off 20, SKY is on 14 off eight. A very good start for India. Keshav Maharaj to bowl the first over after the powerplay now.
- Nov 08, 2024 08:57 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: 15 runs in the 5th over!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Jansen returns for the fifth over, Samson anticipates the back of a length delivery first ball and clears his front leg early to send it over mid-wicket for a four. The next ball is slightly fuller, Samson goes through the line and sends the ball soaring over long on for a six. He gets off strike next ball and then SKY opens his bat face and guides the ball past deep backward point for a four. SKY is on 14 off eight at the end of that over, Samson on 28 off 14.
India 49/1 in 5 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 08:50 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: OUT! That's it for Abhishek
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Gerald Coetzee roars with delight as he gets the breakthrough for South Africa. Full outside off for the first ball of the fourth, Abhishek tries to hit it over mid-off but miscues it. Aiden Markram makes no mistake with the catch.
Abhishek Sharma c Markram b Coetzee 7 (8)
India 24/1 in 3.1 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 08:45 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: 10 runs in the 2nd over
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Aiden Markram bowls from the other end and so spin straightaway from SA. Abhishek greets him by advancing down the pitch and smashing him past extra cover for a four. He gets off strike next ball and then Samson smashes the fourth ball past mid off for another four. Both Samson and Abishek on six runs off six balls at the end of that over.
India 12/0 in 2 overs
- Nov 08, 2024 08:42 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Just 2 runs in the first over
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: A good start for Marco Jansen. Samson off strike first ball, Abhishek with an almighty heave next ball but it nips away and he only slices the around his blade. The next ball is a dot despite him getting bat to it and then a single for him as well.
- Nov 08, 2024 08:36 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: HERE WE GO THEN!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma have walked out to open for India. Anrich Nortje to start the South African attack. All eright this series is a go!
- Nov 08, 2024 08:27 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Time for the national anthems…
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: …with a little glitch! The Indian national anthem is first and it stopped about midway through. The crowd and players started applauding when the anthem started playing again and this time, it was completed.
- Nov 08, 2024 08:20 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: South Africa XI
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Ryan Rickelton(w), Aiden Markram(c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Patrick Kruger, Marco Jansen, Andile Simelane, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Nqabayomzi Peter
- Nov 08, 2024 08:13 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: No debuts for India
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India have gone in with the same XI that pulverised Bangladesh.
Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan
- Nov 08, 2024 08:03 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: TOSS TIME!
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Aiden Markram has won the toss and South Africa will be bowling first.
- Nov 08, 2024 08:02 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: The captains are out there
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Suryakumar Yadav is out there with Aiden Markram, Pommi Mbangwa is the announcer. Here we go then!
- Nov 08, 2024 07:54 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India's winning run since the T20 World Cup final
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: This is the second time India are coming to the continent of Africa since they won the T20 World Cup final. The last time they did so, they suffered the only defeat that has been inflicted on them thus far since they became world champions in this format.
- Nov 08, 2024 07:50 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India's NZ debacle
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: It is not like it is only the South Africans who come into this match with bad memories. It has to be noted, though, that none of the Indian players in Durban today were in that Test squad that lost 0-3 to New Zealand. It was a bolt from the blue. Just before that, India made a statement win in Kanpur that seemed to show that they are utterly invincible at home. And yet, in three extraordinary Test matches, the Indian winning machine broke down and collapsed spectacularly. This T20 series is being played by a different team with a different captain and even a different coach. But surely, surely there has been a knock-on effect of some kind from that series loss to New Zealand.
- Nov 08, 2024 07:38 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: The 2024 T20 World Cup final…
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: ... was the last time these two sides met on a cricket field, of course. India had absolutely no business winning that match, especially after Heinrich Klaasen blasted 24 runs off the 15th over bowled by Axar Patel. South Africa were chasing a target of 177 and their score was 147/4 in 15 overs by then with Klaasen and David Miller at the crease. 30 runs to win in 30 balls. It should've been a walk in the park for any professional T20 batter, let alone hitters of that Klaasen and Miller's calibre. However, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya then put on an incredible chokehold.
- Nov 08, 2024 07:27 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Ramandeep Singh to make debut?
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Ramandeep Singh could be getting his maiden international cap today. The all-rounder has been retained by KKR this season. Ramandeep has scored 544 runs at a strike rate of 170.00 in 57 matches.
- Nov 08, 2024 07:06 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Tour schedule
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: The first T20I today is to be hosted by Kingsmeade in Durban. The second will be played on November 10 in Gqeberha. The tour then moves to Centurion for the third T20I on November 13 and it comes to an end with the fourth T20I in Johannesburg.
- Nov 08, 2024 07:01 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India's injured trio
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Riyan Parag is out with what the BCCI described as a “chronic right shoulder injury”. Shivam Dube and Mayank Yadav are also nursing problems, but theirs haven’t been detailed.
- Nov 08, 2024 06:40 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: India almost scale Mount 300
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: That is what happened the last time that this side played. India batted first in the third T20I against Bangladesh in Hyderabad and well, nothing else mattered. Sanju Samson blasted 111 runs in 47 balls while Suryakumar smashed 75 in 35. The pair put up a partnership of 173 runs in a scarcely believable 70 balls. The carnage continued after they were dismissed though, with Hardik Pandya and Riyan Parag putting up a 70 runs in 26 balls for the fourth wicket. It looked like 300 was very much on the cards but in the end, India's innings ended at 297/6. Bangladesh made a respectable 164/7 in reply and even then, they lost by 133 runs.
- Nov 08, 2024 06:31 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Suryakumar Yadav supremacy
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: Over 150 players have scored more than 1000 runs in T20Is. Not one of them have a career strike rate higher than Suryakumar Yadav's 169.48. His current average of 42.40 is the third highest among batters with more than 2000 T20I runs, with only Mohammad Rizwan (48.72) and Virat Kohli (48.69) ranking higher. It has to be noted, though, that Rizwan's strike rate is 126.45 while Kohli retired with a strike rate of 137.04.
- Nov 08, 2024 06:20 pm IST
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: South Africa's T20 World Cup stars return
India vs South Africa 1st T20I LIVE score: This is the first time that South Africa will be able to field seven of the 11 players who played in the T20 World Cup final. The only ones who aren't there are Kagiso Rabada, who has been rested, the retired Quinton de Kock, and Tabraiz Shamsi and Anrich Nortje, who haven't been selected.
- Nov 08, 2024 06:08 pm IST
India vs South Africa LIVE: No Gautam Gambhir in India's dugout today
India vs South Africa LIVE: Or indeed, for the entire series. This is because Gambhir will be travelling to Australia before the end of this series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. NCA head VVS Laxman is filling in for him, as he did on a few occasions for Gambhir's predecessor, Rahul Dravid.
- Nov 08, 2024 06:06 pm IST
India vs South Africa LIVE: Rain threat over the first T20I
India vs South Africa LIVE: There is 40 percent chance of rain during the match today. Durban does have a tendency to washout night T20 games. The two sides were scheduled to play a T20I here last year as well but that was abandoned without a ball bowled due to the weather.
- Nov 08, 2024 05:54 pm IST
India vs South Africa LIVE: Aiden Markram in a rut
India vs South Africa LIVE: Markram has a career strike rate of 144.62 and an average of 32.17. This is despite the fact that this year, he has scored just 201 runs in 14 T20Is at an average of 16.75 and a strike rate of 118.23. He has scored more than 25 runs in an innings just once all year.
- Nov 08, 2024 05:33 pm IST
India vs South Africa LIVE: South Africa's topsy-turvy run since T20 World Cup final
India vs South Africa LIVE: Aiden Markram had admitted in the days since the T20 World Cup final that it was difficult for a number of players to move on from that match. Well, the results also reflect this fact. In T20Is, they have lost 3-0 to West Indies and drew 1-1 against Ireland. However, one can expect them to be quite a different proposition in this series, being the home side and facing the team that put them in this misery.