South Africa women's cricket team defeated India by 12 runs in the first T20 International match played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday (5 July). This is South Africa's first win on this tour and the team has taken a 1-0 lead in the series.

set out to chase the target Indian Team The team had a good start. Smriti Mandhana and Shefali shared a 56-run partnership for the first wicket. Mandhana scored 46 runs (6 fours and 2 sixes) in 30 balls. After this, captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemima Rodrigues added 90 runs, but could not take the team across the threshold of victory.

Rodrigues scored an unbeaten 53 runs (7 fours and 1 six) in 30 balls and Harmanpreet scored 35 runs (5 fours) in 29 balls. Despite this, the Indian team could only score 177 runs after losing 4 wickets.

Nadine de Klerk, Chloe Tryon, Ayabonga Khaka and Nonkululeko Mlaba took one wicket each.

After being invited to bat first, South Africa scored 189 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. In which Tazmin Brits scored 81 runs (10 fours and 3 sixes) in 56 balls and Marizanne Kapp played a stormy innings of 57 runs (8 fours and 1 six) in 33 balls. Captain Laura Wolvaardt scored 33 runs in 22 balls.

For India, Radha Yadav and Pooja Vastrakar took 2 wickets each.