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India fielding like SA of 90s, SA batting like India of 90s: Twitter hails Men in Blue's dominant bowling performance

An all-round bowling and fielding performance saw defending champions India destroy South Africa in the 1st innings

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 A disciplined bowling performance complemented by fantastic fielding effort saw defending champions India skittle out South Africa for a paltry 191 in a do-or-die match of the ICC Champions Trophy. The Proteas lived up to their 'perennial chokers' tag with another embarrassing batting collapse after openers Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock put on 76 runs. World's No 1 team lost their last eight wickets for 51 runs after being comfortably placed at 116 for one at one stage to be bundled out in 44.3 overs. 

Two run-outs of skipper AB de Villiers (16) and David Miller (1) within a space of six deliveries started the slide from which South Africa could never recover with almost all the Indian bowlers becoming successful in choking up the runs.
India bowled an astounding 141 dot balls which is equivalent to 23.3 maiden overs out of the 44.3 overs that South Africa batted.
India took control of the match in the second Powerplay (between overs 11-40) in which South Africa managed only 143 runs losing six wickets in the process.

Here's how Twitter reacted to India's dominance 

 

Not just a Twilight fan, Trump called this years ago. 

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With inputs from PTI

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