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Indian team after two great wins against Pakistan and Netherlands in the T20 WC 2022 will be facing mighty challenge of facing Proteas team on 30th October in Perth at 4:30 PM IST. Talking about the game, India will be high on confidence after their stupendous performance in this T20 WC and they would also like to take confidence from the fact that recently India won a three-match T20I bilateral series against South Africa 2-1.
Going forward in this tournament, India would rely heavily on Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav to score runs at a brisk rate which has been their key to success so far.
South Africa on the other hand, started off this tournament with a No Result despite a strong performance with the bat against Zimbabwe. In the next game they defeated Bangladesh by a very big margin of 104 runs as Rilee Rossouw smashed the first century of T20 WC 2022. Quinton de Kock has been in stupendous form with bat and his aggressive knock would play a key role for this side to win games. It will be very interesting to see how Indian batters will play the pace attack of Rabada and Nortje in this match as bouncy conditions in Perth would make it even more challenging.
Numbers and stats from IND vs SA game:
Head-to-Head numbers for India vs South Africa match in men's T20 WC game:
Matches - 5
India - 4
South Africa - 1
2 - Rilee Rossouw has smashed two centuries in his last two T20I innings. He smashed 109 vs ZIM in the last game in Sydney & 100* vs IND in 3rd bilateral T20I match in Indore. He has smashed 340 runs from 7 innings in T20Is in 2022 despite scoring back-to-back ducks in first two bilateral T20I matches against India
2 - Quinton de Kock need 2 more sixes to complete 200 sixes for South Africa in men's international cricket overall. David Miller needs 2 more sixes to complete 100 sixes for South Africa in men's T20I.
Most sixes for South Africa in men's international cricket:
AB de Villiers - 324
Jacques Kallis - 253
Quinton de Kock - 198
David Miller - 197
Most sixes for South Africa in men's T20I:
David Miller - 98
Quinton de Kock - 77
JP Duminy - 71
7 - Suryakumar Yadav has won 7 Man of the match awards in T20Is overall.
Most MoM award for India in T20Is:
Virat Kohli - 14 (111 matches)
Rohit Sharma - 12 (144 matches)
Suryakumar Yadav - 7 (36 matches)
Yuvraj Singh - 7 (58 matches)
Yuzvendra Chahal - 5 (69 matches)
Suryakumar Yadav in 2022 has been in terrific form. He has won 5 MoM awards in T20Is this year alone. Suryakumar Yadav has smashed 867 T20I runs from 25 innings in 2022 at a phenomenal strike rate of 184.86.
11 - Virat Kohli needs 11 more runs to become the 2nd batsman after Mahela Jayawardene to smash 1000 runs in men's T20 WC history.
Most runs in men's T20 World Cup:
Mahela Jayawardene - 1016
Virat Kohli - 989
Chris Gayle - 965
Rohit Sharma - 904
Tillakaratne Dilshan - 897
11 - Rohit Sharma has been dismissed by Kagiso Rabada 11 times in international cricket.
Bowlers to dismiss Rohit Sharma most times in international cricket:
Tim Southee - 11
Kagiso Rabada - 11
Angelo Mathews - 10
Rohit Sharma vs Kagiso Rabada in T20Is:
Inns - 7
Runs - 40
Balls - 38
Outs - 2
13 - India have won 13 men's T20Is against South Africa overall.
Most men's T20I game won against South Africa:
Australia: 14 (22 matches)
India: 13 (23 matches) - 1 NR
England: 12 (25 matches) - 1 NR
36 - Rohit Sharma will become most capped player in T20 WC history. He will be playing his 36th match in T20 WC history and will go past Tillakaratne Dilshan overall.
53 - Hardik Pandya needs 53 more runs to complete 3000 runs in international cricket.
