David Miller hit a wonderful century, but it wasn’t enough as India won by 16 runs in Guwahati to win the series 2-0. Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, and Suryakumar Yadav propelled India to a 237-run total. However, South Africa was unsuccessful despite Quinton De Kock’s 48-ball 69. India have never before defeated South Africa in a T20 series at home.
1: India defeated South Africa in a home T20 series for the first time.
India’s greatest T20 score versus South Africa and fourth-best overall was 237.
160: The last overs of the game saw a total of 160 runs scored. This sets a world record.
82: In the last four overs, India scored 82 runs.
106: David Miller’s second T20 century, which came in a losing effort, was the second-highest score. With 110, KL Rahul holds the record.
458: The match’s 40 overs saw a total of 458 runs scored.
15: Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul now have the highest partnerships with 50+ wickets in
They smashed the records of Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan in T20.
South Africa got off to a bad start once again as they chased a huge goal of 238. Temba Bavuma and Rilee Rossouw’s duck and Arshdeep Singh’s dismissal hurt their chances. South Africa was down to 47/3 in the seventh over thanks to Axar Patel’s wicket and some great strokes from Aiden Markram (33 off 19).
David Miller was invited to the crease after Markram’s dismissal. However, Quinton de Kock’s poor performance cost South Africa the game. De Kock made 21 out of 23 during the tenth over. Miller, though, was the one who attacked. Miller reached his half-century in 25 balls with a massive six off Arshdeep while pummeling Indian bowlers all over the field.
If Indian bowlers controlled the first 10 overs, South African bowlers controlled the last 10. In the final 10, De Kock and Miller scored 151/0. De Kock changed up his approach and hit back-to-back sixes for 18 runs in Axar’s over.
South Africa needed 95 runs in 30 balls after 15 overs. Miller blasted Harshal for two consecutive fours in the 16th over of the game, scoring 13 runs. In 39 balls, Quinton De Kock also reached his half-century. Quinton put forth a valiant effort, anchoring a crucially important strong relationship with Miller.
De Kock launched a spectacular six to begin the match’s 18th over, but he was limited in his options since Harshal bowled the spell with excellent line and length and prevented Proteas hitters from scoring runs in his over.
De Kock and Miller’s partnership pounded Arshdeep for 26 runs in the innings’ 19th over by hitting huge shots. Miller scored a quick century in only 46 balls in the last over of the game. Miller hit a tremendous six on the last ball of the game, but his team fell short of the finish line by 16 runs in the arduous run chase. The prodigious Proteas pair fell short in the enormous run chase, handing India the T20I series victory.
India, who had been given the opportunity to bat first, established a frightening total of 237/3 thanks to spectacular half-centuries from KL Rahul and Suraykumar Yadav. Rahul played a knock of 57 off 28 while Suraykumar hammered 61 runs in 22 balls. Virat Kohli scored an unbroken 49 runs off 28 balls, seeming to be in excellent form.
KL Rahul continued where he left off in the last game and stroked a well timed boundary on Kagiso Rabada’s first pitch of the innings to give India the early lead with four runs.
The Indian innings began to pick up steam when the captain of the team assisted himself with two boundaries in the next over delivered by Wayne Parnell. In the next over, Sharma glided down the track to bowler Lungi Ngidi to smack the first six of the innings.
As the Indian openers combined to hit six and two boundaries in the over, scoring 15 runs, Parnell returned for his second over of the game but was completely destroyed.
The Indian pair didn’t seem to be in the mood to unwind as they took good most of the fielding constraints by sometimes hitting boundaries. India scored 57 runs at the conclusion of the powerplay without losing a wicket. KL Rahul finished with 25 (11), while Rohit Sharma scored 29 (25) from the first six overs.
Before the Indian skipper was bowled by Keshav Maharaj in the tenth over of the inning, both opening batsmen kept up the attack, tearing away the South African bowlers and putting up a 96-run partnership.
After completing half of the allotted overs, India sat at 96/1 with KL Rahul hitting 48 off only 22 deliveries and Virat Kohli still waiting to make his debut after just facing one delivery.
In the eleventh over, Rahul smashed a crisp shot down the ground of Markram to reach his fifty-run milestone. The very next over, however, the batter was discovered in front of the stumps. Rahul was bowled by Maharaj for a well-made 57 off 28 balls, which contained five boundaries and four enormous sixes, giving him his second wicket of the game.
The dismissal of Rahul brought in the hot-shot Suryakumar Yadav, who didn’t need an invitation to start exploding from the get-go. Yadav made his intentions quite plain by sweeping his next ball for a four.
As they continued to score quickly, Kohli and Yadav made excellent use of the excellent foundation that the Indian openers had laid. As Suryakumar completely destroyed the pacer, smashing him for two sixes and two fours, scoring 22 runs off the over, Rabada was sent in to deliver the 15th over.
Suryakumar continued the chaos by hitting two more sixes in the 17th over to reach fifty off only 18 balls. Even Kohli, who had previously taken a backseat, joined the celebration and quickly scored three goals.
When Suryakumar was run out at the start of the 19th over, halting his explosive performance, the audience was seeing an utter farce of the South African bowling come to an abrupt stop. Suryakumar hit five boundaries and five sixes in his 61-ball innings, scoring at a rate of 91.
As he continued to hit boundaries, Kohli added two more to his total, scoring 10 runs off the 19th over. In the last over, Dinesh Karthik came to the crease, entering a circumstance that was ideal for the batsman. In the penultimate over, Karthik pounded two sixes and a four, stealing 18 runs and propelling India to a mammoth 237/3 total. As he finished with 49 off 28 balls, Kohli once again fell short of scoring 50 or more.
South Africa Scorecard:
| Batsmen | R | B | 4S | 6S | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temba Bavuma (C) | c Virat Kohli b Arshdeep Singh | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Quinton de Kock (WK) | Not out | 69 | 48 | 3 | 4 | 143.75 |
| Rilee Rossouw | c Dinesh Karthik b Arshdeep Singh | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Aiden Markram | b Axar Patel | 33 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 173.68 |
| David Miller | Not out | 106 | 47 | 8 | 7 | 225.53 |
| Extra | 13 (b 0, w 10, nb 3, lb 0) | |||||
| Total | 221/3 (20) | |||||
| Yet To Bat | Tristan Stubbs, Wayne Parnell, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi |
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deepak Chahar | 4 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 |
| Arshdeep Singh | 4 | 0 | 62 | 2 | 15.50 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 4 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 9.25 |
| Axar Patel | 4 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 13.25 |
| Harshal Patel | 4 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 11.25 |
| Fall Of Wickets | FOW | Over |
|---|---|---|
| Temba Bavuma | 1-1 | 1.2 |
| Rilee Rossouw | 2-1 | 1.4 |
| Aiden Markram | 3-47 | 6.2 |
India Scorecard:
| Batsmen | R | B | 4S | 6S | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KL Rahul | lbw b Keshav Maharaj | 57 | 28 | 5 | 4 | 203.57 |
| Rohit Sharma (C) | c Tristan Stubbs b Keshav Maharaj | 43 | 37 | 7 | 1 | 116.22 |
| Virat Kohli | Not out | 49 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 175.00 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | runout (Anrich Nortje / Temba Bavuma) | 61 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 277.27 |
| Dinesh Karthik | Not out | 17 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 242.86 |
| Extra | 10 (b 1, w 4, nb 2, lb 3) | |||||
| Total | 237/3 (20) | |||||
| Yet To Bat | Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, HV Patel, Arshdeep Singh, DL Chahar |
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kagiso Rabada | 4 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 14.25 |
| Wayne Parnell | 4 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 13.50 |
| Lungi Ngidi | 4 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 12.25 |
| Keshav Maharaj | 4 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 5.75 |
| Anrich Nortje | 3 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 13.67 |
| Aiden Markram | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9.00 |
| Fall Of Wickets | FOW | Over |
|---|---|---|
| Rohit Sharma | 1-96 | 9.5 |
| KL Rahul | 2-107 | 11.3 |
| SA Yadav | 3-209 | 18.1 |
South Africa Playing XI: Quinton de Kock(w), Temba Bavuma(c), Rilee Rossouw, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Wayne Parnell, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi
India Playing XI: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (w), Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Arshdeep Singh.