India vs South Africa cricket match

BCCI

South Africa 227 for 3( Rossouw 100 *, de Kock 68, Umesh 1- 34) beat India 178( Karthik 46, Pretorius 3- 26, Maharaj 2- 34) by 49 runs

Rilee Rossouw smashed his demoiselle T20I century as South Africa posted their fourth-loftiest aggregate in the format, and India maundered and atrophied with full freedom in a massive chase of 228. That liberty was owed as important to their lately- espoused parlous approach with the club, as maybe the fact that the series had formerly been sealed two days back. As a result, India atrophied to their first defeat in the last 17 chases in T20Is at home.

Rossouw cracked 100 *- a score he reached off 48 balls- and added 90 free- flowing runs for the alternate gate with Quinton de Kock. That cooperation came off just eight overs, and included seven fours and six sixes, utmost of which were hit in the bow between deep midwicket and fine leg. De Kock hit 68 from 43 deliveries, setting the tone for the mountain of a score by fluttering Mohammed Siraj for four and six in the alternate over.

In turn, India went hard too despite losing Rohit Sharma for a duck to the alternate ball of the innings; they had lost four lattices after only seven overs, yet had posted 78 with exactly as numerous fours and sixes as Rossouw and de Kock smashed during their stage. But in the end, the total proved far too big and out of their reach.

Rossouw and de Kock's redemption
After failing to score a single run in the first two matches of the series, Rossouw got going only on the fourth ball he faced in Indore. Then too he started with three blotches, before making up fleetly; by the end of the ninth over, he was on 30 out 15 balls, going after each of Siraj, Umesh Yadav and R Ashwin.

He darted, pulled, swiped and bucked to his relish, with neither the fuller lengths nor the shorter bones
bothering him. A lot of luck went Rossouw's way too first, when on 24, he slog- swept Ashwin, only for the ball to pop out of Siraj's hands for six over fine leg.

At the other end, de Kock made up for taking his time in the alternate T20I in Guwahati, the innings of 69 from 48 balls the difference between the sides also. He contended to his fifty off 33 balls, pulling Umesh over fine leg. The first ten overs had raised 96, as the cooperation kept contending on.

Rossouw rode his fortune again. On the final ball of the 11th over, the short boundary came into play when the ball flew off the top half of the club, and just beyond deep point. Just four balls latterly, India reviewed a implicit leg- before chance out Ashwin, but indeed that returned not out.

The cooperation ended when de Kock was run- out at the morning of the 13th over. India had held back their left- arm incentive Axar Patel until 13 overs with two left- hand batters going gung- ho at the crinkle, and Rossouw just proved India's fears right by scuffling Axar's third ball for six to reach his fifty off 27 balls.

Rossouw also pulled Harshal Patel in the 15th over, with the ball just going over a springing Umesh at fine leg. In the coming over, he indeed crossed long- on and deep midwicket as Deepak Chahar tried a yorker. The last three overs brought 50 runs for South Africa, including Tristan Stubbs' gem of 23 and David Miller's final- over rush.

Miller crashed three sixes off Chahar, as the callers hit 24 off the final over. Their total boosted up to 227.

India swing constantly
In the chase, at 4 for 2 after the first ten balls- having lost Rohit and Shreyas Iyer cheaply- the hosts decided to experiment by promoting the finisher Dinesh Karthik toNo. 4.

He declared his intentions first ball by pulling Wayne Parnell for four to deep midwicket. Next over, Rishabh Pant- who had opened alongside Rohit- hit Kagiso Rabada for four. The early boundaries gave India stopgap, and the full house at the Holkar Stadium commodity to cheer after the home bowlers were transported around before.

With only 25 on the board after four overs, Pant went 4, 6, 4, 6 off Lungi Ngidi, before Stubbs' brilliant catch at cover- point transferred him back for 27 off 14 balls. India were three down after five overs, with another 183 to get at a needed run rate of over 12.

That is when Karthik brought his finishing chops into play, attacking Parnell for 6, 4, 6 in the final over of the powerplay. As if that wasn't enough, he deposited Keshav Maharaj for successive sixes next over. But in an attempt to be too creative, he was sailed while trying to reverse scoop the incentive to balls latterly.

An innings of 46 from 21 deliveries came to an end, as with that slid India's expedients. They had brought in only one batter in Iyer despite both Rahul and Kohli being rested. As a result, their allrounders were slotted for as early asNo. 6, with Axar followed by the likes of Harshal, Ashwin and Chahar.

In the eighth over, Suryakumar swung a six of his own in typical style- shuffling across to a good- length ball, and slung the ball over short fine leg- but when Stubbs seized another fantastic catch just two balls latterly, India were 86 for 5 after eight overs.

Lower- order batters Harshal, Chahar and Umesh entertained with 17, 31 and 20 * independently, but India folded with nine balls left. South Africa got a consolation palm to end the series scoreline at 2- 1.