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

South Africa 1 India 0

So that's that then. The Delhi crowd got to witness some of what happened a lot in the last two months (David Miller) and some of what didn't at all (Rassie van der Dussen) as the series kick-starts with a successful chase of India's 211/4. Their partnership, worth 131 runs, turned out to be the second best for the fourth wicket in this format.

Rishabh Pant's international captaincy debut came in his own home ground - with unforgiving dimensions. India struggled at the death as a target of 56 from 24 came down to just 4 off 6 in the end, courtesy TWO overs worth 22 runs each.

India's bowling just didn't work tonight and they have work to do in the next couple of days before playing in another unforgiving venue - the Barabati stadium in Cuttack.

South Africa broke records enroute the successful chase - including their biggest one, and their against this opponent. What they also did was to snap India's 12-game winning streak in the format, denying Pant's side a slice of history.

Since Miller has been the finishing flavour of the last two months in IPL colours and has cooly transmitted that to South Africa, we'll