India Beat South Africa in 1st T 20 of series, 2010

South Africa was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 International series in India in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 2 and 4. The 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India on 5th April 2010. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.
India won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 1st T 20 international match: Mark Boucher (wk), Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis (c), Charl Langeveldt,AB de Villiers, Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Dale Steyn, Loots Bosman, Alviro Petersen, Wayne Parnell
And India team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st T 20  international Match: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (c & wk),Ashish Nehra, Suresh Raina, S Sreesanth, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar,Yusuf Pathan, Virat Kohli

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 172 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of Ab de Villiers who made 55 runs in  55 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls and J kallis who made 40 runs in 40 balls with 1 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.
India was needed to score 173 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.
India batted well and was able to chase the target of 173 runs in 19.1 over’s at the loss of  5 wickets and won the game by 5 wickets in hand with top contributions from S Raina who made 70 runs in 50 balls with 10 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 140 runs in 100 balls.
India won the match by 5 wickets in hand and series stands at 1-0 in favour of India with 2 more games to play.
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