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Rohit Sharmas Ton Goes in Vain as JP Duminys Blistering 68 Stuns India
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Rohit Sharma's Ton Goes in Vain as JP Duminy's Blistering 68 Stuns India
October 02, 2015 23:06
South Africa put on a thrilling batting display to brush aside India by seven wickets in the first Twenty20 match in Dharamsala on Friday and grab the lead in the three-game series.
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South Africa put on a thrilling batting display to brush aside India by seven wickets in the first Twenty20 match in Dharamsala on Friday and grab the lead in the three-game series. (All AFP and BCCI pictures)
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In a high-scoring encounter played before a sell-out crowd of 23,000 at the picturesque venue, the tourists chased down India's challenging 199-5 with two deliveries to spare.
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India's innings after being sent in to bat revolved around a superb 106 off 66 balls by opener Rohit Sharma, ably supported by Virat Kohli's 27-ball 43.
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But the Proteas, helped by the Indian bowlers' inability to grip the ball in the evening dew, made light of the stiff target following a rip-roaring opening stand of 77 from 53 balls between Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers.
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Amla hit 36 off 24 balls and de Villiers contributed a typically aggressive 51 from 32 deliveries that included seven fours and a six.
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India claimed three wickets for 15 runs to reduce South Africa to 95-3, but JP Duminy and Farhaan Behardien stepped in to hit a match-winning partnership of 105 that came off just 55 balls.
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Left-handed Duminy returned unbeaten on a 34-ball 68 that was studded with seven sixes, three off them from successive deliveries by left-arm spinner Axar Patel. Behardien chipped in with 32 not out.
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Sreenath Aravind, a 31-year-old left-arm seamer from Karnataka, made a forgettable international debut as he was hammered for 44 runs in 3.4 overs, including a last-over six by Duminy.
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In India's innings, Rohit plundered 12 boundaries and five sixes in his maiden T20 century, displaying a spectacular array of strokes all round the ground.
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Rohit Sharma became the second Indian after Suresh Raina to score a hundred in T20Is.
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On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 146th birth anniversary, the BCCI has launched a specially minted toss coin with the images of both Gandhiji and Nelson Mandela for the Freedom Series. The toss coin in gold features an impression of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela as 'Heads' and the Freedom Series as 'Tails'
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The second match will be played in Cuttack on Monday and the third in Kolkata next Thursday.
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