Centurion. India has taken an unassailable 2-1 lead in the series by defeating South Africa in the third T20 match. India scored 219 runs in this very exciting match. In response to this, the manner in which South Africa batted made even India’s huge score seem small. The African batsmen also cut loose and hit fours and sixes. The match seemed to be going out of the hands of Team India. Then the Indian cricketers performed brilliantly in moments of pressure and pulled the result in their favor. Let us know what was the biggest turning point of the match.
The third T20 match between India and South Africa was played at the Supersports Park Stadium in Centurion. India scored 219 runs for 6 wickets with the help of Tilak Verma’s excellent century. Tilak Verma scored 107 runs in 56 balls. Abhishek Sharma scored 50 runs in 25 balls. Ramandeep Singh, playing his debut match, played an innings of 15 runs in 6 balls. Sanju Samson could not open his account for the second consecutive match. This match was not memorable for the rest of the batsmen either.
African team gave a strong reply
In response, South Africa had at one time scored 134 runs for 4 wickets in 15 overs. Then he needed 86 runs in 5 overs to win. Heinrich Klaasen was unbeaten on 36 and David Miller was unbeaten on 11 runs. Therefore, the chances of the African team’s victory were still there. Hardik Pandya bowled the 16th over of South Africa’s innings. He gave 2 runs in the first three balls. After this David Miller hit a strong six. Miller told with this shot that now he is going to play openly. But the combination of Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel ruined Miller’s wishes.
Akshar Patel’s memorable catch
David Miller hit a strong pull on the fifth ball of this over of Pandya. The ball crossed the boundary quickly. But Akshar Patel took an almost impossible catch easily at the deep midwicket boundary. The ball was about to cross the boundary from a height of about 10 feet when Akshar Patel jumped about two and a half to three feet and brought the ball down. This catch of his has gone viral. There is no doubt that Miller’s dismissal was the biggest turning point of the match.
Fastest half century against India
South Africa kept the match exciting even after Miller’s dismissal. Heinrich Klaasen and Marco Jansen took their team very close to the target. But after dismissing Miller, the Indian team was convinced that now the African tail has come on the field, which can be scattered by creating pressure. That’s what happened. Arshdeep dismissed Klaasen (41) in the 18th over. After this, Gerald Coetzee and Andile Simlane came to support Marco Yansen. All these together took South Africa beyond 200, but could not reach the target. Yansen returned unbeaten after scoring 54 runs in 17 balls. This is the fastest half-century scored against India in T20 matches.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: November 14, 2024, 07:20 IST