With 23 sixes in the Indian innings, Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma both hit their tons.
Notably, India achieved their highest-ever overseas T20I total. Additionally, this is their second-highest total overall in the format.
These are the important records that India has established.
India add 73 runs in Powerplay
Indian openers Samson and Abhishek Sharma emerged with a positive goal. They went after the Proteas bowlers all along.
The team added a whirlwind of limits as India scored 73 in the Powerplay, presently the second-most elevated complete in this stage in India-SA T20Is.
Lutho Sipamla excused a Abhishek on the Powerplay’s last ball for a 18-ball 36 (4s-2, 6s-4).
India’s most noteworthy at any point stand in T20Is
India’s other’s innings was about the Samson-Varma show.
They pursued the Proteas bowling assault and struck a sum of 19 sixes between them.
Samson hammered a 56-ball 109* (6 fours and 9 sixes), while Varma wrapped up with a 47-ball 120* (9 fours and 10 sixes).
Samson and Varma added 201* runs, India’s most elevated association for any wicket in the organization.
India’s record-breaking complete in T20Is
As referenced, India have enrolled their most noteworthy at any point all out away from home in T20Is.
Their past most noteworthy such all out was 244/4 that came in 2016 against the West Indies in Lauderhill.
Prominently, India have likewise enlisted their second-most noteworthy complete in general in T20Is. Their most elevated T20I complete came last month against Bangladesh – a record-breaking 297/6 in Hyderabad.
Most sixes in a T20I innings
India hammered 23 sixes in Johannesburg, the most in a T20I innings between two Full-Part sides. The past most were 22 by India (against Bangladesh in Hyderabad in 2024) and 22 by West Indies (against SA in Centurion in 2023).