India defeated the visiting team by 8 wickets in the first match of the T20 International series being played against South Africa.

After winning the match, India captain Rohit Sharma said that it was tough on this wicket. But sending the players of the visiting team early to the pavilion proved beneficial. After defeating South Africa, Rohit Sharma praised these two players very much.

Get to learn from such matches

Team India captain Rohit Sharma said during the post-match presentation, 'There is a lot to learn from such matches. We knew it would help the bowlers and the pitch remained moist throughout the match. It was difficult to shoot due to the lack of sunshine and both the teams were in the match but we took wickets which was the turning point of the match.

Gave them the credit of victory

In his conversation, the captain of the host team, Rohit Sharma further praised his team's bowlers Arshdeep Singh and Deepak Chahar. Where Rohit Sharma Indore boys gave us a lot of advantage, on this pitch we were not going to achieve the target of 107 runs easily.

We had lost 2 wickets but in the end, the partnership between Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav was very important. With the better batting of these two, we reached victory.

The captain told what was the turning point of the match

After defeating South Africa by 8 wickets in the first T20 match, Indian team captain Rohit Sharma said that "the wicket was tricky. You learn a lot by playing this type of game. You understand what the team needs to do in tough situations. Nice to play this kind of game.

We knew that seeing the grass on the pitch would give something to the bowlers, but we didn't expect it to help for the entire 20 overs. It was still damp. Both the teams were in a match and the team which performed better won the match. We started well, got 5 wickets in a short span of time and that was the turning point.

The captain of the visiting team told the batsmen guilty of defeat

South Africa captain Temba Bavuma blamed the batsmen for the loss, saying, "As a unit, we failed to bat, we could not bat according to the conditions, while their batsmen did it." Our bowlers tried but the batsmen could not score runs.