Perth,
The 8th T20 World Cup cricket tournament is underway in Australia. The Super 12 round matches are currently underway. Former champions India-South Africa (Group 2) played in this series in Perth today (Sunday).
India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first. Due to the excellent bowling of the South African team, the Indian team players Rohit Sharma was bowled out for 15 runs, Rahul for 9 runs and Kohli for 12 runs.
On the one hand, despite the fall of wickets, the Indian team recovered from a huge slump due to Suryakumar’s action. As a result, the Indian team scored 133 runs for the loss of 9 wickets at the end of 20 overs. Nikiti, who bowled well for the South African team, took 4 wickets.
With a target of 134 runs to win, the South African team initially stumbled like the Indian team, but then the duo of Aden Markram and David Miller led the team to victory. South Africa won by 5 wickets with 2 balls to spare. The Indian team fought till the end and suffered their first defeat in this World Cup series.
Captain Rohit Sharma, who finished the match at this stage, said about the reason for the defeat of the Indian team:-
Earlier we expected the pitch to work in favor of fast bowling. That is why the South Africans struggled to reach even the easy target of 134. But Markram and Miller put together a match-winning partnership.
We had a hard time building. I don’t want to attribute the circumstances to the fact that we dropped our catches because of the extreme cold.
We have played in this environment before. The fact is that we are not exactly in the building. We have been building well in the last two matches. But we couldn’t capitalize on many opportunities today.
We couldn’t get some run outs. I especially missed the run out and we will learn from this defeat and try to play better in the next match.
This was said by Rohit Sharma.