IND and SA: Two legendary teams will face off in T20I cricket. The Indian team will begin their tour of South Africa today, November 8. The two will play a 4-match T20I series. The first game of this series will be played in Durban and the competition between the two teams is very fierce. Led by Suryakumar Yadav, the Indian team will start the new season with a win. During this period, Rohit Sharma’s big shot will be targeting captain Suryakumar Yadav.
In fact, India captain Suryakumar Yadav will have a chance to surpass Rohit Sharma as India’s highest scorer in T20Is against South Africa. The 34-year-old Suriya has scored 346 runs in the 7 games he has played so far, while Rohit Sharma has scored 429 runs in 18 T20I games. Suryakumar needs 84 runs to leave Rohit behind. The overall record for most runs in India-South Africa T20I cricket is held by David Miller, who has scored a total of 452 runs in 21 games so far.
Suriya aims to break record
Not only that, if Surya succeeds in scoring 156 points in these 4 T20I series, he will break England’s Johnny Bairstow’s record and become the highest scorer in T20I against South Africa. Bairstow scored 501 runs in 16 T20 games. Since making his T20I debut in March 2021, Surya has hit 144 sixes in 74 matches for India. If he manages to hit 6 sixes in the T20I series against South Africa, he will become the third batsman in the world to hit 150 sixes in a T20I series. Rohit Sharma currently ranks first in terms of six-hitting in T20Is, while New Zealand’s Martin Guptill ranks second. Rohit hit 205 sixes in cricket’s shortest format. Guptill, meanwhile, has 173 sixes to his name. Suryakumar has the third highest figure.
The line-ups of both teams are as follows:-
Team India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (goalkeeper), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (goalkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vishak, Avesh Khan , Yash Dayal.
South Africa team: Aiden Markram (captain), Otniel Baartman, Gerald Coetzee, Donovan Ferreira, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Patrick Kruger, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Mihalali Mapongwana, Nqaba Peter, Ryan Rickelton, Andile Simelane, Lutho Sipam (3rd 1st and 3rd) Game 4), Tristan Stubbs.
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