After the brilliant performance of the Indian bowlers in the match, the batsmen also showed excellent performance and achieved the target of 118 runs in 15.5 overs with 7 wickets remaining.
Team India’s record
With this victory, India has taken a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. Before this win, both India and Australia had 19 wins each against South Africa. Now with its 20th win, India has overtaken 2021 T20 World Cup champion Australia.
Teams with most wins in T20 against South Africa:
- India (20 wins, 34 matches)
- Australia (19 wins, 28 matches)
- West Indies (14 wins, 26 matches)
- Pakistan (14 wins, 27 matches)
- England (13 wins, 28 matches)
Team India’s easy victory
Abhishek Sharma started the Indian innings. He gave a good start to the team by scoring 35 runs in 18 balls. However, it took some time for the rest of the batsmen to score runs and the run rate slowed down a bit in the middle overs. But, due to the excellent work done by the bowlers beforehand and the target being small, India won easily. Shubhman Gill scored 28 runs, while Tilak Verma, who came at number three, played an unbeaten inning of 25 runs on 34 balls. Captain Suryakumar Yadav’s bat once again remained silent and he scored only 12 runs in 11 balls. Shivam Dubey finished the match by playing a quick unbeaten inning of 10 runs on 4 balls.
Amazing work of bowlers
Indian bowlers maintained their complete dominance in the match. All the bowlers together performed brilliantly. Arshdeep Singh and Varun Chakraborty were the heroes of this match. Both the bowlers bowled economically and took two wickets each. Arshdeep Singh gave just 13 runs in his four overs and dismissed important batsmen like Reeza Hendricks and Aiden Markram. At the same time, Varun Chakraborty bowled tightly in the middle overs and took two wickets for 11 runs in four overs. Harshit Rana and Kuldeep Yadav also took two wickets each, while Shivam Dubey and Hardik Pandya took one wicket each.