India VS South Africa 3rd T20: Tilak Verma’s Thunderous Century
India VS South Africa 3rd T20, Tilak Verma’s Century Sets South Africa a Target of 220
India makes 219 as Tilak Verma’s scorching hundred drives T20 score against South Africa. India played an exciting third T20 international match at Super Sport Park, Centurion. They set a challenging target of 220 for South Africa. Tilak Verma powered the innings with his maiden T20 century in 51 balls. After South Africa won the toss and chose to field, India’s early overs were exciting. They showed resilience and a remarkable performance that thrilled fans.
Sanju Samson started India’s innings badly, getting bowled without scoring any run by Macro Johnson. But with the game gaining momentum from word go with an explosive 107 runs partnership which the Tilak Verma and Abhishek Sharma handed over to India in starting the innings on rock-hard. Together they scored 70 runs in powerplay. Abhishek, within 24 balls into his innings, achieved his half-century, but stumped the next ball of Keshav Maharaj.
Skipper Suryakumar Yadav came next over, scoring only 1 run. He had slowed the Indian momentum a bit. Hardik Pandya was going aggressive but was dismissed by Maharaj for 18. However, Verma did not lose his momentum and started hitting Keshav Maharaj and Gerald Kotze in successive overs. He hit his first T20 century in the 19th over. He finished the 20th over with 107 runs off 56 balls with 6 sixes and 8 fours.
Ramandeep Singh, playing his first game in this match, smashed a six off the very first ball of his international T20 career. He scored 15 runs off 6 balls before getting run out. India finished its innings at 219/6, the highest T20 score for India in South Africa. Now it is the turn of the bowlers to defend a big total. Their task is to defend the score to get ahead in the series.
This explosive inning of Tilak Verma sets up an exciting second half. It’s an intimidating chase for South Africa.
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