India’s seamers Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan have helped skittle South Africa for 116 earlier than debutant Sai Sudharsan scored an unbeaten 55 as India romped to an eight-wicket victory within the first one-Day International at The Wanderers.
South Africa received the toss on Sunday and elected to bat however the resolution proved disastrous as they had been bowled out for his or her lowest complete on residence soil within the 50-over format, narrowly surpassing the earlier worst mark of 118 – additionally in opposition to India – in Pretoria in 2018.
Singh picked up 5-37 runs in his 10 overs and Khan took 4-27 in eight as they bowled a wicket-to-wicket line that had seven of the South African batters both bowled or dismissed lbw.
Allrounder Andile Phehlukwayo supplied some resistance for the hosts with 33 from 49 balls earlier than he turned Singh’s fifth and remaining sufferer.
“The plan was to keep it simple,” Singh stated after his first ODI in additional than a yr.
“I hadn’t opened my account in one-day internationals having played three games before this, so to get a five-for is really special.
“The wicket was serving to, so we tried to take care of the fundamentals and use the correct lengths.
“Before the game we thought there wouldn’t be much movement, so we were surprised, but there was a nice breeze and some purchase off the wicket, so the plan was to hit the wickets and look for lbws.”
Khan eliminated the center and decrease order for his career-best bowling figures in ODIs.
India had been constructive of their chase and reached their goal in 16.4 overs with precisely 200 balls to spare.
Debutant left-handed opener Sudharsan scored a chic 55 not out in 43 balls, together with 9 fours.
He was supported by Shreyas Iyer, who was caught with victory in sight having scored 52 from 45 balls.
The second recreation within the three-match collection will likely be performed in Gqeberha on Tuesday.
Both groups are lacking a number of of their common gamers, who’re both injured or rested for the two-match Test collection that follows.
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