After the heated exchange, Surya Kumar Yadav played the role of mediator
When Marco Jansen and Sanju Samson got into a mid-pitch argument during the South Africa vs. India T20I series opener at Kingsmead in Durban, tensions erupted. When Samson attempted to grab the ball after the second delivery of the fifteenth over, the incident broke out. The South African bowling all-rounder Jansen became enraged by Samson’s behavior and approached him.
Gerald Coetzee, another fast-bowling partner, soon joined Jansen, and the two got into a verbal spat with the Indian wicketkeeper. India captain Suryakumar Yadav hurried to the field and acted as a mediator after realizing that things would soon get very heated.
The whole incident was defused and prevented from becoming worse thanks to Suryakumar’s intervention. After three deliveries when the game resumed, Jansen holed out to Hardik Pandya, who was patrolling at the backward point.
India exhibits supremacy in Kingsmead
India, the current T20 global champions, demonstrated their supremacy in the first T20I. The Men in Blue were sent in to bat first and ended up scoring 202 runs at a cost of eight wickets. Sanju Samson’s willow, which stood out from the other hitters on display, contributed more than half of those runs.
After South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw, England’s Phil Salt, and France’s Gustav McKeon, Samson became only the fourth player in international cricket history to hit consecutive hundreds in men’s Twenty20 Internationals. Samson hit seven fours and ten sixes in his 107-run knock. He destroyed the South African attack while batting with a strike rate of 214.00.
Additionally, the Indian bowling attack reacted well, preventing the South African hitters from ever taking the game by storm. Varun Chakravarthy was the best bowler for India, finishing with scores of 3/25.
In addition to taking three wickets, leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi provided Chakravarthy with excellent assistance.
