IND vs SA: India played the first match of the home series against South Africa in Delhi. It was the first game of the five-match India tour of South Africa. The game was at Arun Jaitley Stadium on 9th June. Both the countries have prepared their best team for this series. Prominent players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Bumrah are absent for the entire series. KL Rahul was named captain and was also ruled out after suffering an injury, and Rishabh Pant became the stand-in captain.Â
The game began at 7:00 pm IST where the toss was won by South Africa, and their captain chose to bowl first. India got to bat first, dooming their match. Since the ground has a bowling friendly pitch, batting first was not preferred.
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1st Inning:
IND vs SA: India Match Highlights, 1st T20I

Ishan Kishan and Ruturaj Gaikwad opened for India and did quite well. Kishan scored seventy-six runs, the highest in the game with eleven-four and three-sixes. Gaikwad also played well and made twenty-three runs.
Shreyas Iyer entered third and got thirty-six runs for India.
Rishabh Pant, the newly appointed captain, made twenty-nine runs before returning to the stands.
Hardik Pandya scored thirty-six runs with two-fours and three-sixes.
Dinesh Karthik ended the match with just one run.
India ended the match, giving the target of 211 runs.Â
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IND vs SA: South Africa Match Highlights, 1st T20I

Keshav Maharaj took the first wicket of the game of Ishan Kishan with the catch of Tristan Stubbs.
Wayne Parnell got Ruturaj Gaikwad caught out from Temba Bavuma.
Dwaine Pretorius bowled out Shreyas Iyer in the sixteenth over.
Anrich Nortje took the wicket of Rishabh Pant via catch out from Rassie van der Dussen.
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2nd Innings:
IND vs SA: South Africa Match Highlights, 1st T20I

Quinton de Kock and captain Temba Bavuma opened for South Africa and made twenty-two and ten runs. It wasn’t a smashing start to the second innings, but the subsequent players made the thrashing.
Dwaine Pretorius made twenty-nine runs in just thirteen runs.
Russie van der Dussen scored seventy-five runs, smashing seven-fours and five-sixes in just forty-six balls.
David Miller scored sixty-four runs in just thirty-one balls.
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IND vs SA: India Match Highlights, 1st T20I

Axar Patel took the first wicket for India with an incredible catch from Ishan Kishan.
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar got Temba Bavuma out via a catch from Rishabh Pant.
Harshaw Patel took the wicket of Dwaine Pretorious.
South Africa defeated India in the first match of the T20I in Delhi. The next game will be played on the 12th of June Sunday at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, Odisha.
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