Navi Mumbai, Feb. 5 -- The Men in Blue defeated South Africa by 30 runs in their solitary warm-up game on Wednesday before the T20 World Cup title defence starts off against the USA from Saturday.

Tilak Varma was one of the star performers of the night, scoring 45 runs in 19 balls with a splendid strike rate of 236.84 before being dismissed by Marco Jansen on the last ball of the 11th over.

He recently suffered a testicular injury and underwent successful surgery, and was recovering at BCCI's Centre of Excellence (CoE). His return has been great so far, scoring 34 of 28 balls against the USA in the first warm-up match for India A and a stunning innings of 45 of 19 balls at a blitzing strike rate of 236.84 vs the Proteas, with three four...