IND vs SA: The first T-20 match between India and South Africa is being played at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. In this match, the Indian cricket team, which came to bat first after losing the toss, may not have got a good start, but the team has put a fightable score on the board, the credit for which goes to all-rounder cricketer Hardik Pandya. Pandya played an unbeaten inning of 59 runs and took India to this score. Let us know how many runs target Team India gave to South Africa in Cuttack.

Team India scored 175/6 runs

Team India could not get a good start in the first T20I match being played with South Africa at Cuttack ground. Team India lost 2 important wickets in the power play and scored only 40 runs. Shubhman Gill 4, Suryakumar Yadav out on 11 runs. After this, Abhishek Sharma also returned to the pavilion after scoring 17 runs.

After this, Tilak Verma was out after playing a slow innings of 26 runs in 32 balls. At the same time, Akshar Patel returned to the pavilion after scoring 23 runs. Shivam Dubey was out after scoring 11 runs on 9 balls. The only batsman from India who scored a fifty was Hardik Pandya, thanks to whom India scored 175/6 runs in 20 overs.

Hardik Pandya played a stormy innings

Hardik Pandya did the work of handling the faltering innings of the Indian cricket team in Cuttack. Hardik took the South African bowlers to task with his hard hitting. He returned unbeaten after scoring 59 runs in 28 balls in the rain of sixes and fours. During this, 6 fours and 4 sixes came from Hardik’s bat. At the same time, his strike rate was 210.71. During this time, Hardik also touched the figure of 100 T-20 sixes.