Sanju Samson set a record by scoring a century in the second consecutive T20 match.Image Credit Source: PTI
World T20 champions Team India have had great success in yet another series by maintaining their dominance. The result of the match between India and South Africa, who met for the first time since the World Cup final, was the same as on June 29. In the first T20 match of the series played in Durban, team India defeated South Africa by a huge margin of 61 runs to take a 1-0 lead. Opener Sanju Samson (107) was the star of Team India’s victory as they scored a record century. While the spin pair of Varun Chakraborty (3/25) and Ravi Bishnoi (3/28) together destroyed half the team.
In the first match of the four-match series played in Durban on Friday, November 8, the Indian team maintained its complete dominance from batting to bowling. However, apart from losing the toss, the team’s start was not looking good as they lost the wicket of Abhishek Sharma while batting first, but Sanju Samson took charge and unilaterally attacked the South African bowlers. Samson expressed his confidence in batting. sixes and took the ball across the boundary arbitrarily.
Sanju, who came in as an opener, scored the second century of his career in just 47 balls. The special thing is that his first century came in the last T20 and thus he became the first Indian batsman to score centuries in two consecutive T20 matches. Sanju hit 10 sixes and 7 fours in his innings of 107 runs in just 50 balls. During this time, he also received good support from Captain Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma. No other batsman could make a significant contribution. Team India scored 202 runs after losing 8 wickets. Pacer Gerald Coetzee took 3 wickets for South Africa.
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