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Sanju Samson slammed a second successive Twenty20 international century to set up a 61-run win for India in the first of four matches against the Proteas at Kingsmead in Durban on Friday. Opening batter Samson hit 10 sixes and seven fours in a spectacular innings of 107 off 50 balls in an Indian total of 202/8. It proved more than enough.
Leg-spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Ravi Bishnoi bowled in tandem and took three wickets apiece as South Africa crumbled to 141 all out. Samson vowed to "keep my feet on the ground" after "10 long years of international cricket" during which he has been unable to nail down a regular place in Indian white-ball teams. His only two previous international centuries have come in the past 12 months – 108 in a one-day international against South Africa last December and 111 in a T20I against Bangladesh in Hyderabad last.
.. AFP.
