T20: David Miller washed out, South Africa created history by beating India

Cricket

oi-Rahul Singh

New Delhi.
The Indian cricket team suffered an embarrassing defeat in the first match of the five-match T20 series against South Africa. Batting first, India had set a huge target of 212 runs, but due to poor bowling of the bowlers, the African team won the match by 7 wickets. With this, South Africa has created history. He has chased the highest score so far. Earlier, South Africa had achieved the target of 206 runs against the Windies in 2007.

There was havoc for David Miller, who scored an unbeaten 64 in just 31 balls, which included 4 fours and 5 sixes. On the other hand, Rassi van der Dussen scored an unbeaten 75 off 48 balls, which included 7 fours and 5 sixes. Both also completed a century partnership of 131 not out. Apart from them, Dwayne Pretorius (29), wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock (22) and captain Temba Bavuma (10) contributed to the win. This time the Indian bowlers were seen longing for the wicket. Only 3 bowlers were able to take wickets. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel and Axar Patel took one wicket each.

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Earlier, Indian batsmen made 211 runs against the visiting team for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. Ruturaj Gaikwad got a chance to open with Ishaan Kishan. Both shared 57 runs in 38 balls for the first wicket. Kishan scored 23 runs in 15 balls. Shreyas Iyer, who came at number three, also played big shots with Pant. The partnership of 80 runs for the second wicket between the two. During this, Kishan also completed the third half-century of his career. However, he was dismissed for 76 runs in 48 balls in the last ball of the 13th over with 11 fours and 3 sixes.

Rishabh Pant scored 29 runs in 16 balls, which included 2 fours and as many sixes. At the same time, Iyer could score 36 runs in 27 balls with the help of 1 four and 3 sixes. In the end, the havoc of Hardik Pandya was seen, who played an unbeaten 31 runs in 12 balls with 2 fours and 3 sixes and contributed significantly in taking the team’s score past 200. Dinesh Karthik remained unbeaten on 1 run in 2 balls. Keshav Maharaj was heavily beaten in the bowling from South Africa, who gave 43 runs in 3 overs. He also had one wicket to his name. While Enrique Norkhia, Wayne Parnell and Pretorius got 1-1 wickets.