South Africa also scored 210 runs

In response to the Indian team’s 240 runs, the South African team also batted strongly. Aiden Markram played an inning of 38 runs in 19 balls. Whereas Ryan Rickelton played a quick inning of 44 runs in 21 balls. However, he was dismissed by Varun Chakraborty. Apart from this, Jason Smith scored 45 runs and Tristan Stubbs scored 45 unbeaten runs on 21 balls. Abhishek Sharma took 2 wickets for Team India.

Team India scored 240 runs

Earlier, the Indian batsmen destroyed the South African bowling attack and scored a mountain of runs. In this match, the Indian team, who came to bat first, scored 240 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. The architects of this huge innings of India were Ishan Kishan and Tilak Verma, who completely pushed the Proteas team on the back foot with their power-hitting.

Ishaan Kishan’s explosive start

Ishan Kishan, who came to start the innings, made his intentions clear with the very second ball of the match. Taking full advantage of the opportunity he got in place of Sanju Samson, he played a devastating inning of 53 runs in just 20 balls. Ishaan hit 7 sixes in his innings, which included four consecutive boundaries (6, 6, 4, 6) hit by Anrich Nortje in the same over. Along with Abhishek Sharma (24 runs), he gave a good start to the team by making a partnership of 80 runs in just 34 balls for the first wicket.

Tilak and Surya’s magic

Even after Ishaan retired, the pace of runs did not slow down. Tilak Verma, who came in at number 3, continued his excellent form and took on the South African spinners and fast bowlers. Tilak scored 40 runs in just 16 balls, in which he hit 3 brilliant sixes. Captain Suryakumar Yadav also scored runs quickly by playing shots all around the field in his familiar style. Thanks to Hardik Pandya’s cameo in the last overs, India managed to reach the score of 240.