South Africa’s Corbin Bosch celebrates the wicket of Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav throughout their ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 Tremendous 8 Group 1 match, at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
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The one dimensional “assault in any respect value” template of Indian batting unit was totally uncovered because the hosts failed their first large take a look at towards South Africa, comprehensively shedding their opening Tremendous Eights recreation by 76 runs within the T20 World Cup right here on Sunday.
Whereas 4 victories on the trot within the group stage papered over the seen lacunae, the Indian batters completely faltered on a barely sluggish floor The defeat, India’s first for the reason that semi-final loss to England within the 2022 version, has left the group vast open and make their subsequent two video games towards Zimbabwe (February 26) and West Indies (March 1) actually must-win video games as a way to qualify for the final 4 stage.
Jasprit Bumrah’s (3/15 in 4 overs) superlative bowling efficiency was utterly undone by a clumsy batting present as India have been bowled out for a lowly 111 in 18.5 overs in pursuit of 188.
Marco Jansen (4/22), Keshav Maharaj (3/24) and Corbin Bosch (2/12) have been the wreckers-in-chief in what was a whole efficiency by the Proteas.
However David Miller’s 63 and helpful contributions from Dewald Brevis (45) and Tristan Stubbs (44 n.o.) also needs to get honourable point out particularly as they nullified Varun Chakravarthy (1/47 in 4 overs) with aplomb.
However anybody who noticed the Indian batters stutter towards the USA, Namibia and the Netherlands knew that it required only one good crew to drive them to alter gears, they usually discovered their bogey unit in South Africa.
On a black soil floor the place the ball was gripping, not one of the Indian batters acquired the measure of Proteas’ assault which fired collectively.
Skipper Aiden Markram made the job simpler by eradicating the harmful Ishan Kishan (0) with a supply that stopped on him and he performed the ugliest cross-batted hoick.
Tilak Varma’s (1) method in direction of batting in the entire tourney had been defective and he lasted solely two balls.
Tilak’s intention to offer Marco Jansen the cost ended disastrously and he additionally wasted a DRS for a nick that probably may have been heard so far as on the Sabarmati Ashram.
Abhishek Sharma (15) acquired his first World Cup runs however he’s utterly out of types and it took one pace-off knuckle ball from India’s nemesis Jansen to kind him out.
The debatable choice to incorporate Washington Sundar rather than common vice-captain Axar Patel turned out to be a whole harakiri because the over-rated white ball all-rounder neither set the stage on hearth with ball or bat. Suryakumar Yadav (18 off 22 balls) could not get the ball off sq. at instances and on a troublesome floor towards a very good assault, his efficiency as soon as once more left loads to be desired.
Suryakumar would not even like to take a look at his dismissal off Bosch, as he flicked a supply on leg-stump to mid-wicket.
At 51 for five, the match was pretty much as good as over however Hardik Pandya (18 off 17 balls) and Shivam Dube (42 off 37 balls) have been nonetheless there on the crease.
The duo added 35 runs however the bowling plans devised by South African coach Shukri Conrad was outstanding at that part.
Lungi Ngidi and Bosch bowled vast yorkers at variable tempo which the 2 large hitters could not negotiate properly.
Spinner Keshav Maharaj (3/24) adjusted his lengths and bowled at a slower tempo which made it immensely troublesome to get underneath the ball and generate energy. As soon as Pandya and Rinku have been dismissed, the 90,000-odd spectators slowly trudged out carrying the frustration of one other World Cup recreation defeat at this venue.
Earlier, David Miller rolled again the years with exhilarating strokes however Bumrah’s excellent preliminary and finish act had restricted South Africa to a manageable 187 for seven in 20 overs.
Miller, standing on the cusp of 37, struck 63 off 35 balls and acquired positive assist from younger Dewald Brevis (45 off 29 balls) after Bumrah (3/15 in 4 overs) and Arshdeep Singh (2/28 in 4 overs) had diminished the Proteas to twenty for 3 inside the primary 4 overs.
Bumrah, who acquired two wickets in his first two overs for simply seven runs, took yet another wicket making a gift of simply 8 extra runs throughout the seventeenth and nineteenth over that he despatched down however all went down the drain.
Printed on February 22, 2026
