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The Wanderers Stadium: A brilliant three-fer by left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh after twin centuries by Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma, who shared a 210-run partnership -- the highest for any wicket, helped India thrash South Africa by 135 runs in a record-breaking performance at The Wanderers Stadium here on Friday. With this India won the four-match series 3-1 and maintained their dominant run since the T20 World Cup, winning 24 out of the 26 T20Is they have played this year.

Arshdeep Singh claimed three for 20 to destroy the South Africa top-order after Samson had hammered an unbeaten 109 off 56 balls and Tilak Varma blazed to an unbeaten 120 from a mere 47 balls to become only the second Indian to score back-to-back centuries in T20Is and helped India post a mammoth 283/1 in 20 overs, the highest score ever in T20I match involving two full members.

With the ball darting around under the lights, Arshdeep used the conditions beautifully to claim three wickets in his first two overs, including two off successive balls in the third over. He cleaned up Reza Hendricks (0) with the third ball of his opening over and then sent back Aiden Markram (8) and Heinrich Klaasen (0) in his second over and through David Miller prevented a hat-trick, the damage was done.