IND vs SA LIVE: India vs South Africa Live Updates – On Thursday, June 9, India will take on South Africa for the first of the five-match T20I series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The pitch is likely to play an important part in this fixture, given its unpredictability. Follow IND vs SA live updates, India vs South Africa live updates on InsideSport.IN.
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Notably, the Arun Jaitley Stadium has hosted six T20I matches so far, but it will only be India’s third T20I game at this venue. The pitch is usually on the drier side here, and scoring runs is not particularly easy.
IND vs SA: Indian and South African batters set to face BIG CHALLENGE on dry track at Arun Jaitley Stadium, bowlers to have upper hand – Check IND vs SA 1st T20I Pitch Report
Previous results at Arun Jaitley Stadium (in T20I cricket):
Match 1 – England 142/7, Afghanistan 127/9 – England won by 15 runs
Match 2 – England 171/4, Sri Lanka 161/8 – England won by 10 runs
Match 3 – Sri Lanka 120/10, South Africa 122/2 – South Africa won by 8 wickets
Match 4 – New Zealand 153/8, England 159/3 – England won by 3 wickets
Match 5 – India 202/3, New Zealand 149/8 – India won by 53 runs
Match 6 – India 148/6, Bangladesh 154/3 – Bangladesh won by 7 wickets
Average First Innings Score – 156
Highest Run Chase – 159/3
IND vs SA: Indian and South African batters set to face BIG CHALLENGE on dry track at Arun Jaitley Stadium, bowlers to have upper hand – Check IND vs SA 1st T20I Pitch Report
As we can figure out from the given statistics, the batters will be in for a tough day at the office in this game. The average first innings total is 156 and teams batting first have crossed the 160-run mark only twice.
Hence, anything above 160 will be a challenging score to defend in this venue. Besides that, teams chasing and teams batting first have won equal number of matches, which shows that toss is not as big a factor in Delhi as it is in some other, coastal venues of India, like Mumbai.
In terms of the kind of bowlers who will be successful, it is difficult to predict. Among the top ten wicket-takers on this track, there are six spinners – but only a couple of them are in top six.
Having said that, we can expect spinners to extract turn on this track. India’s Yuzvendra Chahal and Axar Patel have done well on this ground, while Kuldeep Yadav can also be handy if the men in blue play three spinners. Meanwhile, the Proteas will be dependent on Tabraiz Shamsi and Keshav Maharaj to deliver the goods.
IND vs SA: Indian and South African batters set to face BIG CHALLENGE on dry track at Arun Jaitley Stadium, bowlers to have upper hand – Check IND vs SA 1st T20I Pitch Report
Highest Wicket-Takers at the Arun Jaitley Stadium (in T20I cricket):
| Rank | Player | Country | M | M | Maiden | Runs | Wickets | 4w | Best | Avg | S/R |
| 1 | C J Jordan* | England | 3 | 12.0 | 0 | 79 | 6 | 1 | 4/28 | 13.17 | 12.00 |
| 2 | D J Willey* | England | 3 | 10.0 | 0 | 66 | 5 | 0 | 2/23 | 13.20 | 12.00 |
| 3 | B A Stokes* | England | 3 | 11.0 | 0 | 73 | 4 | 0 | 3/26 | 18.25 | 16.50 |
| 4 | I S Sodhi* | New Zealand | 2 | 8.0 | 0 | 67 | 4 | 0 | 2/25 | 16.75 | 12.00 |
| 5 | Y S Chahal* | India | 2 | 8.0 | 0 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 2/26 | 16.67 | 16.00 |
| 6 | A M Phangiso | South Africa | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 2/26 | 13.00 | 12.00 |
| 7 | A R Patel* | India | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2/20 | 10.00 | 12.00 |
| 8 | A U Rashid* | England | 3 | 9.0 | 0 | 82 | 2 | 0 | 2/18 | 41.00 | 27.00 |
| 9 | Aminul Islam* | Bangladesh | 1 | 3.0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2/22 | 11.00 | 9.00 |
| 10 | F Behardien | South Africa | 1 | 3.0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2/15 | 7.50 | 9.00 |
IND vs SA LIVE: Indian and South African batters set to face BIG CHALLENGE on dry track at Arun Jaitley Stadium, bowlers to have upper hand – Check IND vs SA 1st T20I Pitch Report
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