India and South Africa will be loggerheads in the first of five-match T20I series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Thursday.
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India and South Africa will be loggerheads in the first of five-match T20I series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Thursday. This will be the first-time since 2019 that the two sides will be facing off in a bi-lateral T20I series 2019. The last series ended in a 1-1 draw. The venue for the second match will move to the Barabati Stadium, Cuttack which will be played on June 12 while the final three matches will be hosted in Vizag and Rajkot on the 12th, 14th respectively with the last matched scheduled on 17th in Bengaluru.
India and South Africa has faced each other in the Twenty20 International (T20I) format for a bi-lateral series quite often in the recent past. India and South Africa have played each other in 15 T20Is so far. India have won 9 matches and the Proteas have emerged victorious in 6 matches so far. Rising fast bowlers Umran Malik and Arshdeep Singh who impressed with their respective performances in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 have been named in the India squad, for the T20I series, which will be be led by KL Rahul while star batters Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma have been rested from the series.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 has allowed Cricket South Africa (CSA) to determine their players better and pick up a strong squad for the five-Twenty20 International (T20I) series against India, starting from June 9. Mumbai Indians youngster Tristan Stubbs has received his maiden Proteas call-up ahead of the highly anticipated contest while Temba Bavuma’s Proteas T20 squad will make a return to international cricket for the first time since the ICC T20 World Cup in late 2021.
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India and South Africa have faced-off each other multiple times at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi which was previously known as the Feroz Shah Kotla. However, their meeting on Thursday, will be the first ever in T20I since 2019. Let us have a look at some of the important stats and T20I records between both the teams at the Arun Jaitely Stadium.
India: Played – 2; Won – 1 (Beat New Zealand in 2017) and Lost – 1 (Suffered loss to Bangladesh in 2019)
South Africa: Played – 1; Won – 1 (Beat Sri Lanka in 2016)
Most Runs: Shikhar Dhawan (India) – 121 runs in 2 innings | Hashim Amla (South Africa) – 56 runs in 1 inning
Highest Individual Score: 80 off 55 by Rohit Sharma & 80 off 52 by Shikhar Dhawan (India) | Hashim Amla (South Africa) – 56 off 52
Most Wickets: Yuzvendra Chahal (India) – 3 wickets in 2 innings | Aaron Phangiso, Kyle Abbott and Farhaan Behardien (South Africa) – 2 wickets in 1 inning
