South Africa Beat Bangladesh in 1st T 20 of series,2015

South Africa was scheduled to play a 2 Match T 20 International Series in Bangladesh in 2015. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series. The 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 5th July, 2015.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st T 20 international Match: Jean Paul Duminy, AB de Villiers, Wayne Parnell, Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, Aaron Phangiso, Faf du Plessis (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), David Wiese, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada

And Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st T 20 international Match: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Nasir Hossain, Sohag Gazi, Sabbir Rahman, Soumya Sarkar, Arafat Sunny, Liton Das, Mustafizur Rahman

South Africa batted very well and aggressively and was able to post total of only 148 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of South Africa Star batsman and Skipper F D Plesis who made unbeaten 79 runs in 61 balls with 8 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 129 runs in 100 balls and Rilew R who made unbeaten 31 runs in 21 balls with 2 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 148 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 149 runs in 20 over’s to win this match and to take 1-0 lead in the series of 2 T 20 matches.

Bangladesh batted poorly and they were not able to chase this total and was bowled out for only 96 runs in 18.5 over’s and  top scored by Bangladesh star All rounder S A Hasan who made 26 runs in 30 balls with 1 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 52 runs and leads the series 1-0.

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