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India vs South Africa, 3rd T20I in Cape Town, latest update: Bhuvneshwar bowls the final over. Jonker can only collect a single off the first ball, smacking it towards sweeper cover. Behardien uppercuts a short, wide ball over short third man for a four. Single collected off the third ball, with an under-pressure Bhuvneshwar conceding a wide off the fourth. Jonker squeezes a full toss down the ground for a couple of runs. Two off the fifth delivery, with Jonker squeezing a full delivery towards square-leg for a double. Full toss off the last ball, with Jonker getting a leading edge to get caught by Rohit at extra cover. India win by 7 runs to win the three-T20I series 2-1. That’s two trophies to India out of three in this tour. Preview: India and South Africa will battle it out in the series-deciding third and final Twenty20 International (T20I) at the Newlands Stadium here on Saturday. In the first game, a brilliant all-round show helped visitors beat hosts South Africa by 28 runs at Johannesburg. In the second game, South Africa, who lost the One-Day International (ODI) series 1-5, kept the T20I series alive by registering a six-wicket victory at Centurion. The second match was a show of respective batting resolves by both sides, especially of their middle-order batsmen. While Manish Pandey (79 not out off 48) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (52 not out off 28) responded for India, the hosts had to thank Heinrich Klaasen (69 off 30) and Jean-Paul Duminy (64 not out off 40) as they overhauled the visitors’ total of 189/4 with six wickets and 1.2 overs to spare. [caption id=“attachment_4365473” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
India stand-in captain Rohit Sharma and South Africa captain JP Duminy. AFP[/caption] Klassen and Duminy were particularly harsh on leg-spinner Yuzvender Chahal (0/64) and left-arm medium pacer Jaydev Unadkat (2/42) in the second match. These two will be eager to bounce back with improved performances in the third match as captain Virat Kohli trusts them. Kohli will depend on seamers Bhuvneshwar Kumar, if he is not rested, to provide the early breakthroughs. It is though not clear whether Kohli prefers to rest Bhuvneshwar, the way the team rested fellow pacer Jasprit Bumrah in the second match. Bhuvneshwar has played a lot in the tour which comes to end with the match on Saturday. The place of pacer Shardul Thakur is not guaranteed as the Mumbai right-armer has not impressed much in the two matches. The match may see the return of chinaman spinner Kuldeep Yadav. In the batting department, alongside skipper Kohli, batsmen Rohit Sharma, Dhawan, Dhoni, Hardik Pandya and Pandey will look to make the most of their capabilities this time also. Batsman Suresh Raina, who made a comeback in the T20Is will act as a vital cog in the middle-order and will look to proving his mettle after scoring 46 runs in two games. The home camp will be high on confidence after ending their three-match losing streak across ODIs and the first T20I. They must have been relieved the way they dealt with Chahal, who tormented them in the ODIs. While Reeza Hendricks punished the Indian spinners in the opener, Klassen and captain Duminy did the job in the second game. Farhaan Behardien and David Miller have not lived up to the expectations yet and the match gives them another chance to make impact and impress the selectors ahead of the busy schedule. The bowling department, featuring Andile Phehlukwayo, Junior Dala, Dane Paterson and Chris Morris along with chinaman Tabraiz Shamsi will have to come up with something special in order to get rid of the flamboyant Indian batsmen. Squads: India squad: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Jaydev Unadkat, Shardul Thakur. South Africa squad: Jean-Paul Duminy (captain), Farhaan Behardien, Junior Dala, AB de Villiers, Reeza Hendricks, Christiaan Jonker, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), David Miller, Chris Morris, Dane Paterson, Aaron Phangiso, Andile Phehlukwayo, Tabraiz Shamsi, Jon-Jon Smuts. With inputs from IANS
Highlights, India vs South Africa 2018, 3rd T20I at Cape Town, Full cricket score: Visitors win by 7 runs, clinch series 2-1
Bhuvneshwar bowls the final over. Jonker can only collect a single off the first ball, smacking it towards sweeper cover. Behardien uppercuts a short, wide ball over short third man for a four. Single collected off the third ball, with an under-pressure Bhuvneshwar conceding a wide off the fourth. Jonker squeezes a full toss down the ground for a couple of runs. Two off the fifth delivery, with Jonker squeezing a full delivery towards square-leg for a double. Full toss off the last ball, with Jonker getting a leading edge to get caught by Rohit at extra cover.
India win by 7 runs to win the three-T20I series 2-1. That’s two trophies to India out of three in this tour.
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That’s it from us at Firstpost as we come to the end of the marathon tour of South Africa. It was a great learning curve for the Indians, as they fell short in the first two matches of the three-Test series despite putting in a great effort, before bouncing back in style to not only win the Wanderer’s Test, but bag the ODI and T20I series 5-1 and 2-1 respectively!
Was fitting for the series to end in such a thrilling manner, with debutant Christiaan Jonker nearly guiding the Proteas home in a late burst, while falling short of what would’ve been a dream half-century on debut by just one run.
On that note, it is time for me, Amit, to sign off as we mark the end of our coverage for this tour. We certainly look forward to catching our breaths in the break that follows before the ‘Men in Blue’ return to action in the T20I Tri-Series in Sri Lanka.
For now, I bid you good night on behalf of my colleague Devdutt, as well as our statistician Umang Pabari and freelance cricket writer Chetan Narula, who provided us with valuable inputs from ground zero.
Most runs by a captain on an away tour across formats:
937 – Graeme Smith in England, 2003 (16 innings)
871 – Virat Kohli in South Africa, 2017/18 (14 innings)*
785 – Allan Border in England, 1985 (14 innings)
769 – Alastair Cook in India, 2012/13 (13 innings)
767 – Andrew Strauss in West Indies, 2008/09 (15 innings)
Man of the Series winners in India’s last three T20I series:
Jasprit Bumrah v New Zealand, 2017
Jaydev Unadkat v Sri Lanka, 2017
Bhuvneshwar Kumar v South Africa, 2018
All pacers!
Suresh Raina is the Man of the Match. He scored 43 runs and took a wicket.
Raina: You need to show intent in the first 6 overs. Credit to Kohli and Shastri for giving me the freedom. (On his first-ball six) When you get the ball in your area, you hit it. What we’ve done in the last one and a half months, no team has done in years. Credit goes to the support staff, who gave us a lot of confidence to express ourselves.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the Man of the Series!
“First of all thanks to IPL which makes every bowler a thinking bowler. You’ve to think each and every ballIt’s very important to not give away too much in the first six overs. I always try to keep it simple, knuckle ball and bouncer comes into play. Enjoyed the whole tour, especially Test matches,” says Bhuvi!
India in bilateral T20I series of three or more matches:
v Australia, 2015/16 (3-0)
v Sri Lanka, 2015/16 (2-1)
v Zimbabwe, 2016 (2-1)
v England, 2016/17 (2-1)
v New Zealand, 2017/18 (2-1)
v Sri Lanka, 2017/18 (2-1)
v South Africa, 2017/18
The victorious camp!
After 20 overs,South Africa 165/6 ( Farhaan Behardien 15 , )
Bhuvneshwar bowls the final over. Jonker can only collect a single off the first ball, smacking it towards sweeper cover. Behardien uppercuts a short, wide ball over short third man for a four. Single collected off the third ball, with an under-pressure Bhuvneshwar conceding a wide off the fourth. Jonker squeezes a full toss down the ground for a couple of runs. Two off the fifth delivery, with Jonker squeezing a full delivery towards square-leg for a double. Full toss off the last ball, with Jonker getting a leading edge to get caught by Rohit at extra cover.
India win by 7 runs to win the three-T20I series 2-1. That’s two trophies to India out of three in this tour.
OUT! Jonker is the last man to fall, getting a leading edge towards extra cover, as India win by 7 runs to win the three-T20I series 2-1! Jonker doesn’t quite connect to a full toss from Bhuvi (wouldn’t have matter much even if he had middled it), as the stand-in captain fittingly takes the safe catch to seal off a thrilling win. SA 165/6
Jonker c Rohit b Bhuvneshwar 49(24)
After 19 overs,South Africa 154/5 ( Christiaan Jonker 44 , Farhaan Behardien 10)
Behardien smacks a full toss along the leg stump towards the backward square-leg fence off the first ball. Two balls later, we have Jonker smashing the ball over the long on fence for his second six. Two quick doubles collected off the next two deliveries, with the 150 coming up for the Proteas. Single collected off the last ball. 16 off Bumrah’s final over. South Africa still have a slim chance.
After 18 overs,South Africa 138/5 ( Christiaan Jonker 33 , Farhaan Behardien 5)
Huge over for the Proteas, although one wonders if it arrived a tad to late for them. 18 collected off it, with Jonker smashing a six and three fours off it to race away to 33. Whether he guides the Proteas home today or not, he certainly would’ve impressed the national selectors on international debut.
After 17 overs,South Africa 120/5 ( Christiaan Jonker 15 , Farhaan Behardien 5)
Bumrah starts his third over off with a wide, with Morris getting off the mark with a thick edge that sends the ball running away to the third man fence. Morris however, is castled off the third delivery, getting his middle stump uprooted. Behardien gets off the mark with a single off the first ball that he faces, before smacking the ball down the ground for a four two balls later.
BOWLED EM! Bumrah’s made an absolute mess of the middle stump as Morris misses the ball completely while looking to slog one towards the leg side. SA 114/5
Morris b Bumrah 4(3)
After 16 overs,South Africa 110/4 ( Christiaan Jonker 14 , Chris Morris 0)
Thakur returns to the attack, with Duminy and Jonker exchanging singles off the first two deliveries before the captain decides to change his bat. Gets a boundary off the third delivery, which brings up his 11th T20I fifty. Goes for a double off the penultimate ball, before perishing off the last delivery, getting caught by Rohit near extra-cover. Eight runs and a wicket off it.
OUT! Duminy perishes off the last ball of the 16th over, and that nearly puts all South African hopes to an end, as the SA captain lobs the ball up in the air towards extra-cover, where his Indian counterpart Rohit takes a safe catch. SA 109/4
Duminy c Rohit b Thakur 55(41)
Most 50-plus scores for South Africa in T20Is:
11 – JP DUMINY*
10 – AB de Villiers
8 – Faf du Plessis