Markram’s wonder (Photo: PTI)
South Africa vs West Indies: South Africa has won the first T20 match against West Indies. In this match, South Africa has taken the lead in the series by registering a big win by 9 wickets. If George Linde played an important role with the ball in South Africa’s victory, then with the bat, the performance that its captain Aiden Markram gave to West Indies in 80 minutes cannot be ignored. Markram continued his excellent form in the SA20 League in the first T20 against West Indies. The result was that once he came to the crease to open, he returned only after defeating South Africa.
Captain Markram led from the front
Aiden Markram, along with Pretorius, opened the innings for the South African team, which was chasing the target of 174 runs set by the West Indies. Both of them gave a strong start to the team. By the 8th over there was a partnership of 83 runs between them for the opening wicket. This pair broke due to Pretorius’s dismissal. In such a situation, Rickleton came to support Captain Markram, who was standing at the other end. West Indies bowlers could not break this pair again and they returned only after winning.
WI was defeated in 80 minutes
Ryan Rickleton played an unbeaten inning of 40 runs off 32 balls and provided good support to his captain Markram, who continued his excellent form in SA20 and scored an unbeaten 86 runs in just 47 balls during his innings of 80 minutes. Aiden Markram’s innings included 9 fours and 3 sixes. This is Aiden Markram’s third consecutive fifty plus score in the T20 format, which also includes a century. That is why we are also saying that his bat is not stopping.
Markram is in no mood to stop.
Before playing an unbeaten and explosive inning of 86 runs against West Indies on 27 January, he scored 108 runs on 58 balls against Paarl Royals in SA20 on 17 January. Before that, on January 13, he had also played an inning of 66 runs against Paarl Royals. Aiden Markram is part of the Durban Supergiants in the SA20.
Markram completed the victory, but Linde had started it.
South Africa’s victory was achieved by captain Markram leading from the front with the bat, which was started by George Linde with the ball. George Linde, who came to bat first in the match, targeted three big players of the West Indies in his spell of 4 overs, for which he was also chosen as the Player of the Match. George Linde took 3 wickets for 25 runs in 4 overs, which included the names of Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer and Jason Holder. The second T20 between South Africa and West Indies is now to be played in Centurion.