After winning the T20I series with Australia, India continued to dominate South Africa in the first game of the T20I series.<\/p>\n
India took a lead in the series by 1-0 after defeating South Africa by 8 wickets.<\/p>\n
It was just not the batters who completely took control of the match but also the bowlers who restricted Temba Bavuma and his boys for a very low-scoring total.<\/p>\n
The South Africans scored just 106 losing 8 wickets in the first 20 overs. India\u2019s younger seamer Arshdeep Sing who was recently in controversy for his bowling and dropping of a really important catch made a promising comeback with three huge wickets.<\/p>\n
Arshdeep departed the dangerous Quinton De Kock (1) \u00a0followed by both David Miller and Tristan Stubbs for a duck. Whereas Harshal Patel and Deepak Chahar took two wickets each.<\/p>\n
The batters didn\u2019t have much hassle ahead of them. \u00a0India lost its skipper Rohit Sharma for a duck and Virat Kohli (3) just after the power play reducing India to 17\/2.<\/p>\n
However, South Africa\u2019s hope we\u2019re crushed when SuryaKumar Yadav (50*) and KL Rahul (51) took matters into their hand and completely dominated the match.<\/p>\n
Sky played an accelerating inning by scoring 50 in just 33 balls with an impressive strike rate of 151.51 whereas, KL Rahul played a supportive innings adding another fifty in his bank of runs.<\/p>\n
India won their first T20 game with 3 overs left to bowled and eight wickets in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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