India’s first match in the Super-8 round of ICC T20 World Cup 2026 is against South Africa. These two teams, which are strong contenders for the title, will face each other at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad from 7 pm on Sunday. While Team India had won all four of its group stage matches, South Africa has also traveled to the Super-8 while remaining unbeaten. Captain Aiden Markram is leading the Proteas team from the front.
Opening the innings, Markram scored the highest number of 178 runs for the team. The most special thing is his strike rate. Contrary to his style, Markram is scoring runs at a strike rate of 187.36. Despite being in such explosive form with the bat, the most talked about thing before the match against India is about his off-spin bowling. Indian batsmen have been seen struggling against off-spinners in this tournament, seeing which Markram is in focus.
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Ngidi can also become a problem along with Markram.
Markram has also been seen practicing a lot of bowling in the nets. There are 6 left-handed batsmen in the top-8 of the Indian team, against whom their off-spin can prove to be effective. Team India is also not unaware of this. She would also like to come with better preparation but at the same time she will also have to keep an eye on Lungi Ngidi, who is proving to be a threat to the batsmen with his slow balls.
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Where is Ngidi trapping the batsmen?
The India-South Africa match will be played on a black soil pitch, where the ball will bounce less. Lungi Ngidi will want to take advantage of this. He is the bowler who has taken the most wickets in this tournament for South Africa. He has taken 8 wickets in 3 matches. Ngidi has bowled 42 percent of the balls at slow pace, on which he has taken 4 wickets.
He is mostly bowling loopy full balls, which the batsmen are finding difficult to understand. This type of bowling can also prove costly but it is working for Ngidi at the moment. He has bowled 25 such balls, on which only 17 runs have been scored and 3 batsmen have been out. He would also like to trap Indian batsmen on slower ones in Ahmedabad.
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