The 29-year-old batter Tim David has made an impressive knock during the first T20I match against South Africa at Darwin.

His 83-run knock off 52 deliveries helped the side to post a decent target in the first match of the T20I leg of South Africa’s tour of Australia 2025.

Along with him, Josh Hazlewood and Ben Dwarshuis excelled in bowling department restricting Proteas for 161 runs and securing 17 run victory.

Batting first, Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head opened the innings where Head went on to get dismissed for 2 runs while Josh Inglis went out on golden duck by Rabada and George Linde respectively.

Meanwhile Mitchell Marsh scored 13 runs while Green posted 35 runs and got dismissed by Rabada and Lungi Ngidi respectively. Aussies went on to lose four wickets in the power play scoring 71 runs.

Despite Tim David took his stance, Owen and Maxwell got dismissed cheaply by Maphaka and Muthusamy.

However, Dwarshuis and Nathan Ellis went on to score 17 and 12 respectively as Australia scored 178 runs in their 20 over innings.

With Kwena Maphaka bagged four wickets, Rabada had two dismissals, with Lungi Ngidi, George Linde and Senuran Muthusamy had one dismissal each.

In the pursuit of chasing 179 run target, Aiden Markram and Ryan Rickelton opened the innings while Josh Hazlewood went on to open bowling attack.

With Markram, Lhuan-dre Pretorius and Dewald Brevis went on to lose their wickets in the powerplay for 12, 14 and 2 runs, South Africa scored 48 runs in their powerplay.

Despite, Rickelton went on to score 71 runs in 55 deliveries and Stubbs’ 37 runs, the other batters got dismissed cheaply. Finally, South Africa scored only 161 runs in their 20 over innings.

Josh Hazlewood, Ben Dwarshuis went on to pick three wickets each, Adam Zampa went on to bag two wickets and Glenn Maxwell bagged one wicket.

Tim David was named as the Player of the match. Speaking on the post match conference, “It was a pretty special win for the boys.”

“We went pretty hard but there are not going to be many occasions when that many of our batters miss out, someone in the next one will get the runs. It has been pretty obvious with the way we have been playing (going hard every ball),” he concluded.

Australia secured 1-0 lead in the series, both sides will clash once again in the second match of the series on August 12 at TIO Stadium.