India beat South Africa as warm up for T20 World Cup defence pounds forward

India’s preparations for their T20 World Cup defence look daunting arsenic South Africa swept speech successful 3-1 bid win.

India won the Twenty20 bid against South Africa 3-1 aft taking the past lucifer of the bid by 30 runs successful Ahmedabad.

Second fifties successful the five-match bid by Tilak Varma and Hardik Pandya powered India to 231-5 astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium connected Friday. South Africa’s pursuit collapsed from 120-1 to 201-8.

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Jasprit Bumrah triggered South Africa’s downfall erstwhile helium caught and bowled Quinton de Kock connected 65 disconnected a yorker and finished with an outstanding 2-17 from 4 overs.

Leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy was plundered for 23 runs successful 1 implicit by de Kock and Dewald Brevis but had the past laughter with 4-53.

Sanju Samson, covering for an injured Shubman Gill, utilized his archetypal T20 since October to unfastened with Abhishek Sharma and smash 63 runs wrong six overs and 97 aft nine.

Samson’s and Abhishek’s 11-runs-per-over motorboat was extended by Varma and Pandya, who combined for 105 successful 7.2 overs until they some fell successful the past over.

Varma deed a 30-ball 50 with his seventh boundary, and Pandya got to 50 successful 16 balls acknowledgment to his 5th six, implicit heavy midwicket.

Pandya was yet caught astatine heavy midwicket for 63 disconnected 25 and walked disconnected to a lasting ovation, followed 2 balls aboriginal by Varma, who ran himself retired disconnected the penultimate shot for 73 disconnected 42.