Delhi: The Indian cricket team won the first match of the four-match T20 series against South Africa by 61 runs. In this match played in Durban, India performed brilliantly and scored 202 runs for 8 wickets thanks to Sanju Samson's century. After this, Indian bowlers restricted South Africa to 141 runs in 17.5 overs. This was India's 22nd T20 International win in the year 2024.

Team India has achieved an excellent win percentage of 95.6% by registering its 22nd win in 2024. The record for winning the most T20 matches in a calendar year is held by Uganda, which won 29 matches in 2023 and recorded a win percentage of 87.9%. At the same time, India had created a record of 70% win percentage by winning 28 matches in 2022. This year's figures show great improvement in India's T20 form.

Great performance by Indian bowlers

In the first match played in Durban, Samson scored 107 runs in 50 balls in the opening, while captain Suryakumar Yadav added 21 runs in 17 balls and Tilak Verma added 33 runs in 18 balls. The Indian team scored 202 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. After this, Varun Chakraborty and Ravi Bishnoi played an important role in all out the hosts for 141 runs by taking 3 wickets each. Pacer Avesh Khan also got 2 wickets.

It is noteworthy that there are still three matches left in the series, of which the second match will be played on November 10 and the remaining two on November 13 and 15.