Varma engages in a middle-ground battle.
After KL Rahul left, Varma joined as India’s position was 101/3. SA then used some excellent bowling to suffocate India.
Varma struggled to find the spaces and was unable to spin the attack.
Still, he held his ground and gained some momentum. In the 42nd over, Keshav Maharaj eventually got rid of him.
Varma hit five fours and a six out of 77 balls faced.
Varma’s sixth fifty in List A cricket
In his fourth match, Varma scored 52 to record his first-ever ODI fifty. At 22.67, he now has 68 runs.
Interestingly, the southpaw has 1,304 runs at an average of over 52 in List A cricket.
In addition to holding five hundreds, he registered his sixth fifty in the format. In the meantime, the child has exceeded 100 fours (101). There are 49 sixes in his possession.
How did his innings develop?
Varma scored nine runs from his first 38 balls (SR: 23.68), according to a Cricbuzz. After then, his innings continued as he struck at 110.25 and scored 43 runs off of the following 39 balls.
second-highest partnership against SA for the fourth wicket or less
For the fourth wicket, Samson and Varma scored 116 runs together. Notably, in ODI matches between South Africa and India, this is the second-highest stand for the fourth wicket or less. In Chennai in 2015, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina set a record with 127 runs.