Despite losing to India, South Africa achieved its goal and earned crores of rupees despite losing the series
Team India once again won the T20 series by defeating South Africa. The Indian team won the fourth and final match played in Johannesburg by 135 runs and won the 4-match series 3-1. South Africa's team was badly exposed in this match. First, its bowlers conceded 283 runs in 20 overs. While chasing, the batsmen flopped badly. Despite playing with full strength in this series, Aiden Markram's players fell in front of the new team captained by Suryakumar Yadav. However, despite this crushing defeat, the purpose of the South Africa Cricket Board was accomplished. It made a lot of money from this series.
After South Africa's defeat in Johannesburg, questions are being raised about their approach in T20 and their batting depth. Captain Aiden Markram is also being criticized a lot. But amidst all this, the South African Cricket Board has earned a lot. According to the report, it earned about 600 million rands i.e. about 238 crores from this 4-match T20 series. For South Africa, the biggest goal was to earn as much money as possible through this series, which has been accomplished.
In Johannesburg, South Africa's team was completely shattered by the Indian bowlers and batsmen. Captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and decided to bat first. After this, Sanju and Abhishek scored 73 runs in the powerplay itself. After this, Tilak Verma and Sanju Samson together added 210 runs in a partnership of just 14.1 overs, which is the biggest partnership in the history of this format.
Both of them scored centuries and thrashed the South African bowlers. In the entire innings, Team India hit a record 23 sixes and 17 fours. However, when South Africa came to bat, its batsmen succumbed to the deadly seam bowling of Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya. They lost 4 wickets in just 3 overs. In the 19th over, the entire team collapsed for just 148 runs.