India, Aug. 10 -- Mitchell Marsh's Australia began the three-match T20I series against South Africa at home in some style as they registered an 18-run win in the first T20I on Sunday in Darwin. Tim David's 83-run knock mixed with Josh Hazlewood's three-wicket haul helped the hosts register a comfortable victory to go 1-0 up in the series. As a result of this win, Australia registered their ninth victory on the bounce in the shortest format.

This is Australia's longest winning streak in T20Is. However, Afghanistan and India are still ahead of them in the list of most consecutive victories in T20Is by a full member nation. Both India and Afghanistan had won 12 T20Is in a row. However, the biggest winning streak in T20Is belongs to Uganda a...