It was India’s first game against a major team in a group. Both the team where even-steven as far as talent is concern, so it was all about playing your best game on that day and it was India who manage to rise to the occasion and beat South Africa quite convincingly.

India’s opener G.Gambhir was ruled out of match as he was not match fit for the game. He was replaced by D.Karthik was opening partner of M.Vijay. M.Vijay got out on the first ball he faced and Karthik too got out without contributing much. It was Suresh Raina’ s day when he decided to tear apart the South African bowling, he scored 101 in just 60 balls, well supported by Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni . India mange to force their total to 186/5.

In reply South African batsmen look under pressure from the start when got slow start with J.Kallis holding the fort at one end it was up to the other batsmen to play around him and keep up to the Required Run Rate. Kallis played an sought out innings of 73 runs of just 54 balls he got some support from AB Villiers. But once they got out the total proved to be too much for the next batsman and hence they lost by 14 runs.

MoM was S.Raina well deserve for his century knock first by an India in T20 format.