Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa, 1st T20I, Dharamsala

Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa, 1st T20I: India take on South Africa in first T20I in Dharamsala on Friday. (Source: Reuters)

India and South Africa begin their 72-day-long series with the first T20I in Dharamsala on Friday. While India will look to begin their campaign on a winning note, the Proteas will also look to asset their supremacy as the team with best overseas record in recent years. Catch all the live cricket score and live cricket match updates from the India vs South Africa T20I here.

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A beauty contest

Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa: Harbhajan Singh indulges in a selfie in Dharamsala. (Source: PTI )

Besides fighting for the cricketing bragging rights, South Africa and India are also involved in an unofficial tussle over which country is home to the prettiest ground. Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma concede it it Dharamshala.The Saffers think otherwise, though the first thing they did after arriving at the venue was to have their pictures clicked with the picturesque Dhauladar ranges in the background.

Amidst mountains, India seek self-discovery

At a media conference here a couple of days ago, Suresh Raina and a local journalist were locked in a friendly banter, with neither belligerent ready to conceding an inch in the argument. What happened was that the scribe, while setting up the premise of his question that would never be allowed to finish, claimed that South Africa had more individual match winners than India.

Ravichandran Ashwin—The leg-spinner!

Live Cricket Score, India vs South, T20I: When Ravichandran Ashwin walked out under lights with a support staff member in tow, it looked like he was aiming to get used to bowling with dew around.

Ravichandran Ashwin has done it again. Just when you thought he was through with radical experiments, having finally cracked it that there is no substitute to sticking to the basics of off-spin bowling — which are control, flight, dip and turn — he went ahead and bowled leg spin during an extended session on match eve on Thursday.

‘You have to see strength of the team to pick the best combination’

Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa, 1st T20I: MS Dhoni said the current T20 series against the Proteas will hardly have any impact on their World Twenty20 preparations. (Source: PTI)

MSIndia’s limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday said that the search is still on for a potent cricketer, who can fit into the role of a seam bowling all-rounder that will help getting the team combination right.

Dhoni spoke in the context of team’s bowling combination which hinges on whether they have a quality seamer all-rounder.