IND Vs SA, 3rd T20I Highlights: Tilak's Century, Arshdeep's Three-Fer Give India 2-1 Lead | PICTURES

India set a target of 203 for South Africa and beat them by 61 runs in the first T20I at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Wednesday (Nov 14).

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe), Batting first, India received an early blow as Sanju Samson departed for a duck, but his opening partner Abhishek Sharma helped with a fifty.

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe), Tilak Varma and Sharma steadied the innings, with the former scoring a stellar 107* off 56 to take India to 219/6.

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe), South Africa's Andile Simelane and Keshav Maharaj shared four wickets among themselves.

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe), In the second innings, Ryan Rickelton, Reeza Hendricks and skipper Markram handled the top-order batting with 20 or more runs each.

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe), Jansen and Klaasen were the top scorers with 54 (17) and 41 (22) respectively.

The rest of them couldn't cross the 20-run mark.

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe), Pacer Arshdeep Singh played a pivotal part in the SA batters' doom with his 3/37 (4).

He stopped Jansen's hard-hitting spree and SA ended at 208/7 (20).

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe).