The 5-match T20 series between India and South Africa is starting from 8th November. With this series, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav will return to international cricket after about a month. Many new players have got a chance for this series, as many senior players are part of the Test team that will fly for the 5-match Border-Gavaskar series against Australia next week. Suryakumar has a chance to make a big record in this series against South Africa, where he can overtake Rohit Sharma.
Suryakumar Yadav will break this record of Hitman!
India's T20 captain Suryakumar is close to becoming the highest run-scorer in T20 International against South Africa by surpassing Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Suryakumar has so far scored 346 runs in only 7 T20 matches against South Africa. Rohit is currently the Indian batsman who has scored the most runs against South Africa in T20 International. He has 429 runs in his name in 18 matches.
david miller at the forefront
In such a situation, Suryakumar needs only 84 runs to overtake Rohit. Apart from this, Suryakumar will overtake veteran batsman Virat Kohli after scoring 49 runs in this series. David Miller of South Africa is the highest run scorer between the two countries. He has scored 452 runs in 21 matches against India so far.
Bhubaneswar on top
Talking about bowlers, Indian fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the highest wicket taker between the two countries with 14 wickets. Bhuvneshwar has been out of the national team for a long time. Experienced spinner R Ashwin is second in this list with 11 wickets. He has not played a single T20 International match since the 2022 T20 World Cup. The 4 matches of India-South Africa T20 series will be played on 8, 10, 13 and 15 November in Durban, Gkebaraha, Centurion and Johannesburg respectively.
Indian team for South Africa tour
Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vyaschak, Avesh Khan Yash Dayal.