IND vs SA / India beat South Africa by 8 wickets with Suriya and Rahul half-centuries

IND vs SA: Team India defeated South Africa by 8 wickets in the first match of the three-match T20I series. India restricted South Africa's innings to a score of 106 for eight in 20 overs on the back of a brilliant performance by the fast bowlers. Arshdeep Singh took three, Deepak Chahar and Harshal Patel took two wickets each. A breakthrough went to Axar Patel.

After this, the Indian team achieved the target by scoring 110 runs for 2 wickets in 16.4 overs. The African team initially gave 2 big setbacks to Team India. Captain Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion without opening the account. At the same time, only 3 runs came off 9 balls from Virat Kohli's bat. Rohit's wicket was taken by Rabada and Kohli's wicket was taken by Nortya.

Suryakumar Yadav and KL Rahul took over the Indian innings after two early wickets. Surya batted brilliantly and played a blistering innings of 50 runs in 33 balls. During this his strike rate was 151. At the same time, 51 runs also came off KL Rahul's bat. He faced 56 balls.

Maharaj scored the highest 41 runs

Keshav Maharaj faced 35 balls and scored 41 runs for South Africa. At the same time, 24 came out of Parnell's bat and Markram played an innings of 25 runs. At one time only 5 African batsmen were out for 9 runs. Axar Patel and Ashwin also bowled well. Only 24 runs came from both of them in 8 overs. Akshar also took a wicket.

• The first wicket came in the very first over. Deepak Chahar clean bowled African captain Temba Bavuma.
• Arshdeep Singh took three wickets in the second over.
• First he bowled Quinton de Kock on the second ball of the second over.
• After this, on the fifth ball of the over, he got Riley Russo caught behind the wicket by Pant.
• Arshdeep took the third wicket on the last ball of this over. He bowled David Miller on the inside ball.
• Deepak Chahar took the fifth wicket. He got Tristan Stubbs out caught by Arshdeep.
• Four South African batsmen Bavuma, Rousseau, Miller and Stubbs could not even open their account.
• Harshal Patel gave the sixth blow to South Africa. He dismissed Aidan Markram for 17 runs LBW.
• Axar Patel took Africa's seventh wicket. He got Parnell caught by Suryakumar Yadav at mid-wicket after scoring 24 runs.

Compared to the previous match against Australia, there were four changes in the Indian playing XI. Deepak Chahar got the chance in place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. At the same time, Rishabh Pant was made part of the playing XI in place of Hardik Pandya. Yuzvendra Chahal was also replaced by R. Ashwin and Arshdeep Singh.

Bumrah out of playing XI due to injury

Jasprit Bumrah complained of back pain during India's practice session on Tuesday. After which he was dropped from the first T20 match at the behest of the medical team. In view of the World Cup, the Indian team management does not want to take any big risk.

Playing XI of both the teams

India- Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, R. Ashwin and Arshdeep Singh.

South Africa: Quinton de Kock, Temba Bavuma (c), Riley Russo, Aidan Markram, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Wayne Parnell, Tabariz Shamsi, Kagiso Rabada, Enrique Nortya, Keshav Maharaj.