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JOHANNESBURG : Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma hot centuries as India thrashed South Africa by 135 runs in the fourth and Final Twenty20 International here at the Wanderers on Friday.

Samson made 109 not out and Varma hit an unbeaten 120 in an Indian total of 283 for one,  which included 23 sixes - a record for a team in T20 Internationals between Test playing nations.

It was the second century of the series for both Samson and Varma, with players-of-the-series  Varma making a second successive hundred while Samson was coming off two ducks after opening the series with a hundred.

Samson hit nine sixes in his 50-ball innings, while Varma cleared the boundary on 10 occasions while facing 47 deliveries.

The World Students Society thanks AFP.