The visitor team Australia gave surprised the home team, South Africa, in the first t20i match. Australia batted first after losing the toss and scored 196 runs with the loss of six wickets. The opener of the team DA Warner was the only Australian batsmen who had not played well. He smashed one boundary and out. AJ Finch (c) faced 27 balls and scored 42 runs. SPD Smith was the top runs-scorer with 45 runs off 32 deliveries.
MS Wade scored 18 runs, MR Marsh 19, AT Carey † 27, AC Agar 20 and MA Starc scored 7 runs. DW Steyn and T Shamsi both of them took two wickets each, AL Phehlukwayo and L Ngidi these two South African bowlers took one wicket each. South Africa team scored 89 all out in 14.3 overs. MA Starc took one wicket, PJ Cummins and A Zampa both took equal wickets, two wickets were taken by each bowler. He was AC Agar who clearly dominated South African batsmen by taking five wickets with a hat-trick.
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South Africa win the toss and elected to bat first.
South Africa team: 1 Quinton de Kock (capt, wk), 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Faf du Plessis, 4 Rassie van der Dussen, 5 Pite van Biljon, 6 David Miller, 7 Dwaine Pretorius, 8 Kagiso Rabada, 9 Anrich Nortje, 10 Tabraiz Shamsi, 11 Lungi Ngidi.
Australia team: 1 David Warner, 2 Aaron Finch (capt), 3 Steven Smith, 4 Matt Wade, 5 Mitchell Marsh, 6 Alex Carey (wk), 7 Ashton Agar, 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Kane Richardson.
Match Timings: 12:30 GMT | 14:30 Local
Umpires – Bongani Jele, Allahudien Paleker
TV Umpires – Adrian Holdstock
Match Referee – Andy Pycroft
Reserve Umpire – Brad White
Match number – T20I no. 1052
