Who Said What? What did Suryakumar Yadav, Aiden Markram & David Miller say after INDvSA match?

India suffered a 76-run defeat to South Africa in their first Super8 clash of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, February 22.

Shifting our focus to the details of the game, South Africa batted first after winning the toss, posting a dominating total of 187/7 in 20 overs. Middle-order batters Dewald Brevis (45), David Miller (63), and Tristan Stubbs (44*) shone as Jasprit Bumrah pocketed a three-wicket haul.

In the chase, Indian batters failed to live upto the expectations as they got bundled out for 111 runs in 18.5 overs, losing the game by 76 runs. All-rounder Shivam Dube was the lone warrior with 42 runs in 37 balls. Marco Jansen scalped four wickets while Keshav Maharaj pocketed three scalps.

On that note, let’s take a look at who said what after the INDvSA match.

Aiden Markram | South African skipper: 

Great performance. Very different type of wicket to what we’ve had here, so great to see the boys assess that pretty early and adapt their skills to execute their plans. We’re really pumped for the bowling group. They’ve been working hard, started the comp a bit tough, but the way they rocked up tonight was a great effort. I think first and foremost was the partnership. 

(Miller and Brevis) The guys were great, put that together for us, steadied the ship and kept us in the game. Conversations towards the back end were that the ball was travelling tonight, felt almost a bit spongy, so it was about finding space where we could run hard, drop the ego and take as much as we could at the back end. They bowled well up front and at the death as well, but I thought our batting through the middle was probably the difference. Good effort in the field. We put two down but not for lack of effort. 

Against UAE we probably weren’t as connected as we’d like, but that presence and connectedness was much better today. We’re going to make mistakes, we don’t mind that as a group, so we’ll brush those aside. We feel like Lungi is a threat whenever he bowls and that he can take wickets for us in that middle phase. It depends on conditions - if we don’t feel like it will do much with the new ball, we’d rather hold him back, but if there’s something in it he gets something out of the wicket. We’ll assess it on game days and give him that role. He’s happy to do anything, a proper team man, and he just keeps delivering. I think it’s the same for both teams having played each other recently 

(Talking about their next game vs West Indies). They’re a dangerous T20 side playing good cricket, so we’ll enjoy this tonight, park it, and get our minds sharp for that West Indies clash. It’s a big game for us and we don’t want to take confidence or good vibes for granted. Important to rock up on the 28th and take it on full steam ahead.

Suryakumar Yadav | Indian skipper:

I feel we were always in the game when we started. I think we bowled really well in the beginning, 21 for 3, and the way they batted after that from 7 to 15, I think they batted really well, and then we came back again in the game later on. Overall, if we see, we bowled really well, but we could have batted a little better. My thing is sometimes you’ve got to think, if you’re chasing 180-185, you can’t win the game in the powerplay, but you might lose the game in the powerplay. We lost too many wickets in the powerplay and then we couldn’t have small, small partnerships which we wanted for chasing 180-185, but that’s part of the game. We learn from it, we’ll sit back and then come back stronger. 

I think everyone knows their combination (Bumrah-Arshdeep) has been very lethal. Both of them have played together. If you see today also, both of them bowled eight overs, picked around five wickets and gave around 45-50 runs. If I’m not wrong, I’m not good with numbers. But they bowled really well in partnership and that’s what we want from them. Both are experienced and it’s good to have both of them in our side. Hopefully bat well, bowl well and field well 

(Talking about the plans for the next game vs Zimbabwe). That’s it. We’ll try and keep it simple, play the same brand of cricket which we want to play and nothing changes. I think we’ll come back strong.

David Miller | Player of the Match: 

I think you’re always behind the eight ball there and it’s just about making sure you stick to your strengths. You don’t want to go into your shell. You want to play good cricket shots but be nice and selective. Getting in that powerplay there with the fielders all in the ring, it was quite nice to get a couple over the fielders. And then Brevis was batting really well all the way through. Stubbs too, I think it was just about extending that partnership as much as we could. We’re all boundary strikers, but it’s about making sure you rotate the strike well. 

I think with the nature of this ground, you actually want to look straight. It’s smaller straight than square, so you want to shape up to be hitting straight and then react accordingly. It wasn’t spinning too much in the first innings, so just looking to be nice and aggressive to the spinners and chip it away where you can. 

They (India) are a serious setup, some really world-class bowlers there. It’s something we spoke about a lot. We’ve played against them a lot as well, so it’s about matching the intensity, if not raising it against their bowlers and putting them under pressure. They are good bowlers, but they do bowl bad balls, so it’s about making sure you’re in a position to capitalise.

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