The players and fans of the Indian cricket team had to face defeat by 7 wickets in the first match of the 5-match series against South Africa on Thursday. In this match, the batsmen of the Indian team displayed excellent batting and set a huge target of 212 runs in front of South Africa.
Looking at this target, it was looking very easy for the Indian team to win this match but the intentions of the South African batsmen were different. Along with this, he also got the support of luck in today’s match. Pretorius and de Kock got South Africa off to a good start.
After this, David Miller and Van der Dussen, who came to bat later, gave an easy victory to South Africa while batting brilliantly. Van der got lucky too today. He had a slow start and when he made 29 off 30 balls, his catch was dropped by Shreyas Iyer.
This opportunity became the game-changing moment of today’s match and after that, he scored 45 runs in 15 balls. Also, due to this defeat, the Indian cricket team also missed the big record of registering 13 consecutive wins in T20.
The fans were disappointed by this match and the fans also raised questions about the captaincy of Rishabh Pant.
