After losing two back to back games in the five matches series, India has a registered victory in the third T20 match of the series. Team India showcased an all round performance to beat South Africa by 48 runs. Just like other two games, South Africa won the toss and elected to field first in Visakhapatnam. But the opening pair of team India provided a sensational start and the bowling unit join the party to register a comfortable victory. So without making any further delay let’s get into the article to check out the complete details of the match between India versus South Africa in the 3rd match of the series.
Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan blasted in the middle as they smashed 57 and 54 respectively in a short time and that helped India to secure a strong foundation. But the middle order was not able to capitalize the foundation, as Shreyas Iyer went back to the pavilion after scoring 14 while Rishabh Pant disappointed the fans as he went back to the pavilion for 6 and Dinesh Kartik was dismissed for just 6.
Having said that, Hardik Pandya smashed 31 and remained unbeaten and team India finished their innings at 179/5.
The bowling unit of team India started to dominate in the game from the early stage of the South African as they went back Temba Bavuma for just 8 and his partner Reeza Hendricks was dismissed for 23.
Dwaine Pretorius added 20 in his account while Heinrich Klaasen managed to score 29 in his account and Wayne Parnell smashed 22 and the remaining batsmen of South Africa went to back very cheaply and India registered 48 runs victory in the game and keep their hopes alive in this series.
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