Who won the 3rd T20 match? With Tilak Varmas century Indian team defeated South Africa by this many runs
Who won the 3rd T20 match? With Tilak Varmas century Indian team defeated South Africa by this many runs
By Prem Kumar Nov 14, 2024, 09:50 IST
South Africa vs India, 3rd T20I : Batting explosively in the third T20 match against South Africa, Tilak Varma completed his century in 51 balls. This is Tilak Varma's first century in T20 cricket. In his century innings, Tilak Varma also hit 8 fours and 6 sixes.

Tilak Varma completed his fifty in just 32 balls

Earlier, Tilak Varma had completed his fifty in just 32 balls. 22-year-old Tilak Verma has also become the youngest player to score a century for India in T20 International. Tilak Verma did this feat at the age of 22 years and 5 days. Tilak completed his century by hitting a four on the 5th ball of the 19th over against Andile Simpala.

Tilak Verma came to bat at number three in the innings for Team India. After losing the toss in the match, Team India's start was not very good, but Tilak Verma never let the run rate of the Indian team stop with his strong batting.

Tilak Varma played an innings of 107 runs for 

Team India while remaining unbeaten till the end. In this innings, Tilak faced 56 balls and hit 8 fours and 7 sixes. Due to his strong innings, Team India has been able to score a huge score of 219 runs. This is also the highest score of Team India against South Africa in T20 cricket. In this way, South Africa now needs 220 runs to win the match. In the third T20 match against India, host South Africa captain Aiden Markram decided to bowl first after winning the toss.

 Abhishek Sharma hit a stormy fifty in 24 balls

When Marco Jansen bowled Sanju Samson on the second ball of the over, it seemed that Team India would be in trouble, but after this Tilak Verma along with Abhishek Sharma wreaked havoc. During this, Abhishek Sharma, who has been struggling for some time, made the condition of South African bowlers worse by hitting a stormy fifty in 24 balls. However, Abhishek Sharma's innings could not go beyond 50 runs, but Tilak Verma took charge after this and took the team's score beyond 200 runs by remaining unbeaten till the end.