Live cricket score: India vs South Africa 2018, 1st T20I, Johannesburg - India beat South Africa by 28 runs

1.6: J Unadkat to JJ Smuts, FOUR! Third boundary of the over, the best of the lot. Overpitched outside off, Smuts clears his front leg and drives it through the gap between mid off and covers for a boundary. 14 runs off this over.

1.5: J Unadkat to JJ Smuts, FOUR! Mistimed but has enough. This is bowled on a length on the stumps, Smuts looks to go over the bowler's head. Does so but off the outer half. Has enough on it to clear mid on and go to the fence.

1.4: J Unadkat to R Hendricks, Flicked away off the pads through square leg for one.

1.3: J Unadkat to R Hendricks, Almost edged! Length ball angling away, Hendricks looks to drive on the up but misses.

1.3: J Unadkat to R Hendricks, WIDE! Ouch! Hope Unadkat is alright. He slips and falls as he delivers this one, thereby losing control of the ball. Ends up spraying the delivery well outside the tramline. It goes on a couple of bounces to the keeper. The others check on him and he is good to continue.

1.2: J Unadkat to R Hendricks, FOUR! Shot! Length ball angling away, Reeza stands tall and punches it through covers. The fielder there puts in the dive but is unable to make contact with the ball. The ball races away to the fence.

1.1: J Unadkat to R Hendricks, Fuller on the stumps, pushed back to the bowler.

Jaydev Unadkat to steam in from the other end. No slips for him, though a ring stands in guard on the off side.

0.6: B Kumar to JJ Smuts, How could that miss the stumps as well as the edge? This is hurled on a length around middle. The ball nips away just a touch after pitching. Smuts stays back and looks to whip it away to the on side but ends up missing it completely. The ball passes just over the stumps. Kumar cannot believe it. Decent start for India.

0.5: B Kumar to JJ Smuts, Full and swinging away just a touch, Smuts looks to go downtown but misses.

0.4: B Kumar to JJ Smuts, This one is punched off the back foot towards covers.

0.3: B Kumar to R Hendricks, Edged! On a length outside off, Hendricks gets squared up a touch. Gets it off the outside edge towards third man for a single. Off the mark in not a great fashion.

0.2: B Kumar to JJ Smuts, Fuller on the stumps, turned through mid-wicket for a single.

0.1: B Kumar to JJ Smuts, FOUR! South Africa and Smuts are off in a flash! Hurled on a length outside off, Jon-Jon stands back and punches it through point. Pandey dives to his right from backward point but can do nothing to prevent the ball from racing away to the fence.

Welcome back. 204 will be the figure the Proteas will be after. Jon-Jon Smuts and Reeza Hendricks are the openers for South Africa. Bhuvneshwar Kumar will start with the ball first up. One slip in place.

Is the score chaseable? There are no pointers that suggest otherwise. Some change of pace should aid the Indian seamers. Can India defend this? Will South Africa chase what's in front of them successfully? Join us in a while as we find out just that.

India got off to a flier, in spite of losing Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina inside the Powerplay. Both of them scored freely before unwanted shots consumed them. Shikhar Dhawan, though, had different plans. His cuts, pulls, flicks and drives, all came off the middle of the bat and he looked set to notch up a triple figure score before a shot that he'd look at later, consumed him. Virat Kohli looked good for the brief time he was in the middle. But Manish Pandey then played a sensible role in the middle and held the innings together to aid India breach the 200 mark. Of course, the drops from the South African fielders helped India's cause as well.

Excellent comeback from South Africa. They have just conceded 46 in the last five overs. Till the 15th over, India has threatened to get much more than what they have got. But the home side pacers decided to prevent the later damage. After going for 31 off his first two overs, Dane Paterson recovered well to concede just 17 off his last two, getting his yorkers with supreme accuracy. He remained wicketless but the same cannot be said about the debutant Junior Dala. The youngster bowled with a spring in his steps and got a couple of scalps to his name. Tabraiz Shamsi would be cherishing the evening for having got the big scalp of Virat Kohli.

19.6: D Paterson to H Pandya, Excellent over from Paterson. He has just conceded 9 off this one. Yorkers fired in with pinpoint accuracy. Pandya only manages to dig it out through backward square leg for a single. 204 IS SOUTH AFRICA'S TARGET!

19.5: D Paterson to M Pandey, Fuller outside off, driven straight to long off for one.

19.4: D Paterson to M Pandey, SAFE! Full on the stumps, Pandey can only squeeze it towards long on. Takes on the fielder's arms as he returns for the second. Klaasen takes the throw and disturbs the stumps. Looks very excited and the appeal is taken upstairs. One look by the third umpire is enough to press the green light. Two runs added to the tally.

Pandey seems to be a goner. At least that's what Klaasen's reaction suggests. The run out appeal is taken upstairs.

19.3: D Paterson to H Pandya, Full on off, smashed back to the bowler. Paterson fails to stop it cleanly and the ball rolls to the off side. A run taken.

19.2: D Paterson to H Pandya, Excellent running. Yorker on the stumps, Pandya digs it out towards long on and always wants two. Gets it easily. The throw to the keeper was a good one, right on top of the stumps.

19.2: D Paterson to H Pandya, WIDE! Slower ball on a shorter length. Pandya stands tall and looks to flat-bat it straight but misses. Wide signaled for height.

19.1: D Paterson to M Pandey, On a length around off, pulled to deep mid-wicket for one.

18.6: C Morris to M Pandey, Manish drives it to long on for one.

18.5: C Morris to H Pandya, Full outside off, driven through covers for one.

18.4: C Morris to H Pandya, FOUR! Back-to-back boundaries from Pandya. Mr. Sher, our colleague here, just asked as to why Pandya wasn't sent ahead of Dhoni today. This delivery adds weight to that question. Very low full toss on the pads, Pandya clips it past short fine leg and gets a boundary.

18.3: C Morris to H Pandya, FOUR! Short in length, Pandya stands tall and pulls it in front of square on the leg side for a boundary. The transfer of weight on the back foot was wonderful.

18.2: C Morris to H Pandya, Very full outside off, Pandya fails to squeeze it out.

18.2: C Morris to H Pandya, WIDE! This is hurled down the leg side, Hardik fails to flick.

Hardik Pandya is next in.

18.1: C Morris to MS Dhoni, OUT! Castled! Morris gets the better of his ex-Chennai skipper. Dhoni walks across to flick this one through the on side to target the short boundary. Seeing this Morris spears in a full toss on leg. MS fails to get bat to that as the ball dips and the ball hits the leg stump very low. That's all that Chris and South Africa require.

17.6: D Paterson to MS Dhoni, Hurled on the pads, Dhoni flicks it towards fine leg. He runs the first one hard but doesn't get an opportunity for the second.

17.5: D Paterson to M Pandey, Yorker on off, Pandey squeezes it out to the off side and gets to the other end.

17.4: D Paterson to M Pandey, Full and outside off, Pandey makes room to play it through the off side but misses.

17.3: D Paterson to MS Dhoni, Short in length, pulled to fine leg for one.

17.2: D Paterson to MS Dhoni, FOUR! I'm loving it! There is a mini banter going on next to me regarding MS's usefulness to the T20 side and with every shot the man in question plays, the bantering sides have points against each other. This is bowled full on off, Dhoni charges down and blasts it straight back past the bowler for a boundary. The pro-Dhoni group gets a point of argument to silence the opposing one, saying look at this bullet-like shot and that should be enough. On having another look, it is seen that it was the cutter.

17.1: D Paterson to M Pandey, On a length outside off, Manish stays back and glides it to third man for a single.

Dane Patterson is back on.

16.6: C Morris to MS Dhoni, FOUR! Remember World T20, 2016? It was the time when Dhoni and Kohli were both masters of playing this shot. Full outside off, Dhoni stays back and slices it just past backward point for a boundary. There was a man running to his right from third man but he had no chance of getting anywhere near.

16.5: C Morris to M Pandey, Fuller on middle, driven down to long on for one.

16.5: C Morris to M Pandey, WIDE! Sprayed down the leg side, MP misses the flick.

16.4: C Morris to MS Dhoni, On a length around middle and leg, flicked off the pads for one.

16.3: C Morris to M Pandey, DROPPED! Another chance goes down. Tabraiz Shamsi is the man who is at fault. This is hurled full on leg, Pandey gets across and looks to get it over short fine leg. Doesn't get the elevation and hits it towards short fine leg. Shamsi gets low to his right and gets both his hands to that but fails to hang on. A run taken. Pandey is a good end-overs batter and hence this could prove costly for the Proteas.

16.2: C Morris to MS Dhoni, Length ball slanting in, Dhoni pats it to the on side and gets to the other end.