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The 1st T20I Match of the South Africa tour of India, 2022 played yesterday at Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram. In which India wins against South Africa by 8 wickets.
India won the toss and invited South Africa to bat first, South Africa batted first, and started the inning very badly, Keshav Maharaj played a very brilliant inning of 41 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 5 boundaries in 35 balls, and Aiden Markram scored 25 runs in 24 balls, Wayne Parnell scored 24 runs in 37 balls, apart from this, no any batsman could play well and stay in the crease, Kagiso Rabada remains unbeaten for 7 runs, and Anrich Nortje also remains unbeaten for 2 runs, Quinton de Kock dismissed just for 1 run, four batsmen Temba Bavuma, Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, and Tristan Stubbs dismissed without scoring, in this way, South Africa scored just 106 runs after losing 8 wickets in stipulated 20 overs, and set an easy target of 107 runs in front of India.
Indian bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets just for 32 runs, Deepak Chahar took 2 wickets just for 24 runs, Harshal Patel took 2 wickets for 26 runs, and Axar Patel got 1 wicket.
India chased the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in the fourth ball of the 17th over and won the match by 8 wickets. India also started the inning not very well, but the ending was very brilliant, KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma came to start the inning, the first wicket gone very quickly just for 9 runs in 2.2 over, Rohit Sharma dismissed without scoring, next batsman Virat Kohli came to bat and he also dismissed very quickly dismissed just for 3 runs as the second wicket in the first ball of the 7th over, the team score was just 17 runs, followed by Suryakumar Yadav came to bat handled the inning and took the match to the victory with KL Rahul, KL Rahul played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 51 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 2 boundaries in just 56 balls with Suryakumar Yadav, and Suryakumar Yadav also played a very brilliant quick half-century and victory inning of 50 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 5 boundaries in just 33 balls. In this way, India chased the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in 16.4 overs and won the match very easily by 8 wickets.
South African bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje got 1-1 wicket.
Indian bowler Arshdeep Singh was selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling and took 3 wickets just for 32 runs in his spell.
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