2007 World T20 Rewind: On this day, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh guided India to easy win over South Africa
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2007 World T20 Rewind: On this day, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh guided India to easy win over South Africa

On today in 2007, star Indian opener Rohit Sharma notched up his maiden half-century earlier than RP Singh shone with the ball to assist his facet clinch a cushty 37-run win over South Africa in an International Cricket Council (ICC) World Twenty20 match at Kingsmead in Durban.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) took to its official Twitter deal with and knowledgeable its followers that Rohit pulled again his first fifty solely in his second T20I to assist the Men in Blue seal a simple win over the Proteas on the marquee occasion on today.

“Rohit Sharma: 50* (40), MS Dhoni: 45 (33), RP Singh: 4/13: #OnThisDay in 2007, India proved to be more than a match for South Africa in the T20WorldCup,” the world’s cricket governing physique wrote together with the highlights of the match.

India gained the toss and opted to bat first in the course of the 24th match of the ICC World T20 2007.

Openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag did not convert their good begins into huge scores and dismissed for 19 and 11 runs, respectively.

Subsequently, Dinesh Karthik too did not click on with the bat and departed for a duck earlier than Robin Uthappa additionally adopted him to pavilion after scoring simply 15 runs.

Rohit then hammeed a quick-fire 40-ball 50 runs apart from stitching a vital partnership of 85 runs with the then skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (45) to assist the Men in Blue submit 153 for 5 of their stipulated 20 overs.

For South Africa, Shaun Pollock completed with figures of two for 17, whereas Morne Morkel and Makahaya Ntini chipped in with a wicket every.

Cricket World Cup Rewind 2007: Rohit Sharma, RP Singh guided India to simple win over South Africa

On today in 2007, star Indian opener Rohit Sharma notched up his maiden half-century earlier than RP Singh shone with the ball to assist his facet clinch a cushty 37-run win over South Africa in an International Cricket Council (ICC) World Twenty20 match at Kingsmead in Durban.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) took to its official Twitter deal with and knowledgeable its followers that Rohit pulled again his first fifty solely in his second T20I to assist the Men in Blue seal win over the Proteas on the marquee occasion on today.

“Rohit Sharma: 50* (40), MS Dhoni: 45 (33), RP Singh: 4/13
: #OnThisDay in 2007, India proved to be more than a match for South Africa in the T20WorldCup,” the world’s cricket governing physique wrote together with the highlights of the match.

India gained the toss and opted to bat first in the course of the 24th match of the ICC World T20 2007.

Openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag did not convert their good begins into huge scores and dismissed for 19 and 11 runs, respectively.

Subsequently, Dinesh Karthik too did not click on with the bat and departed for a duck earlier than Robin Uthappa additionally adopted him to pavilion after scoring simply 15 runs.

Rohit then hammeed a quick-fire 40-ball 50 runs apart from stitching a vital partnership of 85 runs with the then skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (45) to assist the Men in Blue submit 153 for 5 of their stipulated 20 overs.

For South Africa, Shaun Pollock completed with figures of two for 17, whereas Morne Morkel and Makahaya Ntini chipped in with a wicket every.

In reply, RP Singh tore aside South Africa’s batting line-up with good figures of 4 for 13, whereas S Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh took two wickets every to assist India prohibit South Africa to a rating of 116/9.

Mark Boucher and Albie Morkel had been the highest scorers for the Proteas with 36 runs every.

Sharma was declared ‘Man of the Match’ for his spectacular present with the bat.

India went on to win the inaugural version of ICC World T20 in 2007 after beating their arch-rivals Pakistan by 5 runs within the remaining match at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on September 24.

 

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