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India has defeated South Africa by 17 runs in the first ODI match. A total of 681 runs were scored in both the innings of this match played in Ranchi, while Virat Kohli scored the 83rd century of his international career and 52nd century of his ODI career. Team India had scored 349 runs while playing first. In response, the South African team remained 17 runs away from the target. Kuldeep Yadav took the most wickets for India, who took four wickets.
681 runs were scored in the match, India won
When the South African team came to chase the target of 350 runs, Harshit Rana dismissed Ryan Rickleton and Quinton de Kock without opening the account in his first spell. Africa suffered the biggest blow when captain Aiden Markram was dismissed by Arshdeep Singh on the score of 7. By the score of 11, Africa had lost the wickets of all three top order batsmen. Tony De Jorzi and Dewald Brewis did get the start, but they were out after scoring 39 runs and 37 runs respectively.
Marco Jansen and Matthew Britzke made South Africa’s comeback in the match, who made a very important partnership of 97 runs for the sixth wicket. Yansen was out after playing a stormy innings of 70 runs in 39 balls. Kuldeep Yadav had turned the tide of the match in India’s favor by dismissing Jansen and Matthew Britzko in the same over. Britzke scored 72 runs.
Corbin Bosch had made the match exciting in the last overs. South Africa scored 20 runs in the 48th and 49th overs combined. The situation was such that Prasidh Krishna had to save 17 runs in the last over. The batsman set in front was Corbin Bosch, but he got out while trying to play a big shot. Bosch scored 67 runs.
Kohli-Rohit-Rahul’s bat
When the Indian team came to bat first, Yashasvi Jaiswal was out cheaply after scoring 18 runs. But Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli together took the innings forward and made a partnership of 136 runs. Meanwhile, Rohit scored the 60th half-century of his ODI career. Rohit was out after scoring 57 runs.
On the other hand, Virat Kohli converted his fifty into a century. He completed his century in 102 balls. In the match, he played an inning of 135 runs in 120 balls, during which Kohli hit 11 fours and 7 sixes. This was the 52nd century of his ODI career. KL Rahul, who was captaining the Indian team in this series, also made an important contribution in taking the team’s score to 349 by contributing 60 runs.