Team India defeated South Africa by 30 runs in the fifth T20I at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday to win their last men's international cricket match of 2025. With the win, India won the five-match series 3-1, registering their eighth T20I series victory in a row. India last lost a T20I series in 2023.

Team India all-rounder Hardik Pandya on Friday created history by smashing the fastest-ever T20I fifty on Indian soil. The 32-year-old took 16 balls to score his half-century in the fifth T20I against South Africa in Ahmedabad. Overall, it is the second-fastest fifty by an Indian after Yuvraj Singh's 12-ball fifty against England in Durban in 2007.

The BCCI will announce Team India squad for the T20 World Cup 2026 on Saturday. The tournament will begin on February 7 and go on until March 8. Notably, India are the defending T20 World Cup champions. India's squad for T20I series against New Zealand will also be announced on Saturday.

Google and YouTube temporarily stopped working for thousands of users across India. According to data available on downdetector.in, 54% users reported server connection issues and 35% users reported issues with YouTube's website. For Google users, 80% faced issues with the website, while 14% faced issues with Google Search. Affected users are reporting seeing 502 error message.

Over 97 lakh voters have been deleted from Tamil Nadu's draft roll after the Special Intensive Revision while enumeration forms have been collected from 5.43 crore voters. The voters have been deleted over several reasons such as migration, death and duplication, among others. Over 73 lakh voters were removed from Gujarat's draft roll while 4.34 crore voters were found valid.