India Won the T20I Series by 3-1: India defeated South Africa by 135 runs in the fourth T20 match. With this, the Indian team won the series 3-1. In this match played in Johannesburg, after winning the toss and batting first, the Indian team scored 283 runs for the loss of one wicket in 20 overs, thanks to the centuries of Sanju Samson and Tilak Verma. In reply, South Africa could only score 148 runs for the loss of 10 wickets in 18.2 overs.

SA vs IND 4th T20I Playing-11s

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Earlier in this match after winning the toss and batting first, the Indian team had a great start. There was a 73-run partnership for the first wicket between Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma, which was broken by Lutho Sipamla. He targeted Abhishek in the sixth over and got him caught by Klassen. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 36 runs at a strike rate of 200.

After this Tilak Verma took over the charge. He shared a 210* run partnership for the second wicket with wicketkeeper batsman Sanju. Due to the centuries of both, India's score crossed 280. Sanju scored 109 runs in 56 balls with the help of six fours and nine sixes while Tilak Verma faced 47 balls and scored 120 runs. During this, his strike rate was 255.31. Nine fours and 10 sixes came off his bat. In this match, Sanju scored the third century of his T20 international career and Tilak scored the second century. Both scored two centuries each in this series.

On the other hand came for chasing of such a big target of 284 runs South Africa's team had a very bad start and lost four wickets in the powerplay itself. For the host team, Tristan Stubbs and David Miller tried to handle the team by playing a well-planned innings, but after the dismissal of these two batsmen, South Africa's team could not make a comeback and succumbed to the huge score. Stubbs scored the highest 43 runs for South Africa, while Miller played an innings of 36 runs. Marco Jansen remained unbeaten after scoring 29 runs with the help of two fours and three sixes in 12 balls. At the same time, seven batsmen could not even touch the double-digit mark.

For India, Arshdeep took three wickets, while Varun Chakraborty and Axar Patel got two wickets each. Hardik Pandya, Ramandeep Singh and Ravi Bishnoi took one wicket each.

Player of the Match: Tilak Varma (IND) 120* (47).

Player of the Series: Tilak Varma.

“Actually I wanted to tell one funny thing, last year when I played here I got out first ball. This innings was very crucial for the team and the series. Just want to hold my shape and followed my basics as to what I did in the last game, I was calm. It's an unbelievable feeling, I couldn't express it right now, I never imagined that too two 100s in South Africa in challenging conditions. Thanks to our captain Surya for this. As I said last match, I was injured in the last few games, I believe in God and my process, that's why I celebrated like that to God,” Tilak says at the presentation ceremony.

India Recorded Its Third Biggest Victory
This is South Africa's biggest defeat in terms of runs. Earlier, Australia defeated them by 111 runs in 2023. At the same time, this is India's biggest victory in terms of runs. Last year, the Indian team defeated New Zealand by 168 runs at their home. Earlier in 2018, they defeated Ireland by 143 runs. Now the team has registered its third biggest victory in T20 by defeating them by 135 runs.