🏏India tour of South Africa:1st T20I at Kingsmead Durban Nov 8🏏 - Page 15

India captain: [on India's record here at Durban, if he knew about it] Is it? I did not know about that, I just got to know now. We have not changed our brand of cricket in the last 3-4 series, very happy with the win. The amount of hard work he has done in the last 10 years, doing the boring work, he is eating the fruits of that. He was in the 90s but still he was looking for a boundary, playing for the team and shows the character of the man and that's what we look for. That was the plan, we were looking for the crucial wickets of Klaasen and Miller and the way they (spinners) delivered, it was incredible. As I said already at the toss and the PC, boys have made my job easier, I don't need to carry any baggage, the boys are enjoying themselves on and off the field, which makes my job easier. The brand of cricket we play, even though we lose a few wickets, we want to play without fear, it's a T20 game and if you can score 200 in 17 overs, why not.

Aiden Markram | South Africa captain: [if the toss decision of his played a part in hindsight] Not so much about the toss. Both new-balls did a bit with the extra bounce, it was consistent in the two innings. Once the newish ball wore out, it played well. Sanju played incredibly well, put our bowlers under pressure, plans to negate him and better plans will help us going forward. Once he is striking like that, it's pretty hard to stop and you take your hat off to him. We had a couple of meetings with who were bowling the death overs, incredibly proud with the two (Coetzee and Jansen) and a really big positive for us tonight. From an individual point of view they will understand where they can get better and then meet as a batting and bowling group, you don't fix it in the nets, it's more about an approach and tactical point of view.

Suryakumar Yadav | India captain: [on India's record here at Durban, if he knew about it] Is it? I did not know about that, I just got to know now. We have not changed our brand of cricket in the last 3-4 series, very happy with the win. The amount of hard work he has done in the last 10 years, doing the boring work, he is eating the fruits of that. He was in the 90s but still he was looking for a boundary, playing for the team and shows the character of the man and that's what we look for. That was the plan, we were looking for the crucial wickets of Klaasen and Miller and the way they (spinners) delivered, it was incredible. As I said already at the toss and the PC, boys have made my job easier, I don't need to carry any baggage, the boys are enjoying themselves on and off the field, which makes my job easier. The brand of cricket we play, even though we lose a few wickets, we want to play without fear, it's a T20 game and if you can score 200 in 17 overs, why not.

"That ends things from this game. The second game is on the 10th of November at Gqeberha. We will be there to bring it to you. Do join us then. Until next time..."

Sanju Samson | Player of the Match: Really enjoyed my time in the middle. Playing it well, maximum utilisation of my current form you can say. [on what is going right for him] The intent, we have been talking about being aggressive and keeping the team ahead of yourselves. Once you play three-four balls you are looking for the boundary, I'm not thinking much, sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't, happy it worked out well today. It was very crucial, knowing home advantage South Africa has, they are a gun side and it was important to start the series well.

Aiden Markram | South Africa captain: [if the toss decision of his played a part in hindsight] Not so much about the toss. Both new-balls did a bit with the extra bounce, it was consistent in the two innings. Once the newish ball wore out, it played well. We wanted to get off to a better start and that is where we lost the game. Sanju played incredibly well, put our bowlers under pressure, plans to negate him and better plans will help us going forward. Once he is striking like that, it's pretty hard to stop and you take your hat off to him. We had a couple of meetings today with who were bowling the death overs, incredibly proud with the two (Coetzee and Jansen) and a really big positive for us tonight. [on plans for the next game] From an individual point of view they will understand where they can get better and then meet as a batting and bowling group, you don't fix it in the nets, it's more about the approach and tactical point of view.

Suryakumar Yadav | India captain: [on India's record here at Durban, if he knew about it] Is it? I did not know about that, I just got to know now. We have not changed our brand of cricket in the last 3-4 series, very happy with the win. The amount of hard work he has done in the last 10 years, doing the boring work, he is eating the fruits of that. He was in the 90s but still he was looking for a boundary, playing for the team and shows the character of the man and that's what we look for. That was the plan, we were looking for the crucial wickets of Klaasen and Miller and the way they (spinners) delivered, it was incredible. As I said already at the toss and the PC, boys have made my job easier, I don't need to carry any baggage, the boys are enjoying themselves on and off the field, which makes my job easier. The brand of cricket we play, even though we lose a few wickets, we want to play without fear, it's a T20 game and if you can score 200 in 17 overs, why not.

That ends things from this game. The second game is on the 10th of November at Gqeberha.

Wasn't able to watch the match live, par checked the scorecard abhi and Sanju

Originally posted by: SoniRita

fixed it Raji, thanks for correcting

For a second I thought I got the timings wrong myself. I checked few times in Cricinfo and Cricbuzz before posting that comment.

Even Cricbuzz corrected it. I have no hand in it though.

Cheers..