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India Women vs South Africa Women, 3rd T20I Latest Updates: Four, six and out. Some high octane action from Tryon. Marizanne Kapp comes in at the fall of that wicket. South Africa are within touching distance of a win. A scrappy single and South Africa win. They win by 5 wickets to keep the 5-match series alive. South Africa have now beaten India for the first time in T20Is. Preview: Veteran all-rounder Rumeli Dhar made her comeback into the Indian women’s cricket team after six years as she was on Saturday named as replacement for injured veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami for the remaining three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) against South Africa away. [caption id=“attachment_4356065” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
File images of Dane van Niekerk and Harmanpreet Kaur. Reuters[/caption] Jhulan had suffered an injury to her heel ahead of the first T20I. On Friday, India registered a nine-wicket win in the second match and now lead the T20I series 2-0. Rumeli, 34, played her last match for India in the One-Day International (ODI)series against Australia in March 2012. She has represented India in 78 ODIs, 15 T20Is and four Tests. Squads: India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Mithali Raj, Veda Krishnamurthy, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Anuja Patil, Taniya Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Nuzhat Parveen (wicketkeeper), Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Rumeli Dhar. South Africa: Dane van Niekerk (c), Trisha Chetty (wk), Moseline Daniels, Nadine de Klerk, Nicole de Klerk, Mignon du Preez, Shabnam Ismail, Marizanne Kapp, Ayabonga Khaka, Odine Kirsten, Masabata Klaas, Lizelle Lee, Sune Luus, Chloe Tryon, Raisibe Ntozakhe. Venue: The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. With inputs from IANS
Highlights, India Women vs South Africa Women, 3rd T20I at Johannesburg, Full Cricket Score: Hosts win by 5 wickets, keep series alive
Four, six and out. Some high octane action from Tryon. Marizanne Kapp comes in at the fall of that wicket. South Africa are within touching distance of a win. A scrappy single and South Africa win. They win by 5 wickets to keep the 5-match series alive. South Africa have now beaten India for the first time in T20Is.
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That’s all we have in our live coverage of the 3rd T20I between India Women and South Africa Women. The hosts had to win this match to keep the series alive, having lost the first two matches and they did deliver. There will now be everything to play for in Centurion come Wednesday. Join us then.
Also stay around for our live coverage of the India vs South Africa Men’s T20I later this evening. The match starts at 6 pm IST and we will be live an hour early with all the pre-match analyses and toss. Till then, goodbye.
South Africa Women 134/5 after 19 overs
Four, six and out. Some high octane action from Tryon. Marizanne Kapp comes in at the fall of that wicket. South Africa are within touching distance of a win. A scrappy single and South Africa win. They win by 5 wickets to keep the 5-match series alive. South Africa have now beaten India for the first time in T20Is.
South Africa Women 121/4 after 18 overs
Pandey comes in to bowl. An edge off the first ball. Brilliant chase by Poonam Yadav, pulls the ball back just before it would have crossed the fence. Saves one run. Tryon takes a massive stride forward and places the ball well to the backward point boundary. Tryon is playing a top class innings. But the Indians are hanging in there. Ten runs off that over. SA need 13 runs off 12 balls.
South Africa Women 111/4 after 17 overs
Vastrakar comes into the attack. A quick single. South Africa inch closer. Two runs from that over and the wicket of Luus. Nadine de Klerk is the new batter in. SA need 23 runs off 18 balls.
South Africa Women 109/3 after 16 overs
Tryon comes down the pitch gets a four straight down long off. What a shot. SA need 25 runs off 24 balls. The game is theirs to lose now.
South Africa Women 91/3 after 15 overs
Chloe Tryon comes in to join Luus. Gayakwad bowling the 15th over. Luus gives the charge again but is beaten in flight. Meanwhile ‘Ganati Bappa Morya’ chants ring around the stadium. Luus gets a boundary off the last ball.
South Africa Women 84/3 after 14 overs
Yadav continues. Luus gets a boundary going. This stand is looking dangerous now. Du Preez caught in the deep off the last ball. Big wicket that.
South Africa Women 76/2 after 13 overs
Gayakwad comes back. Du Preez comes down the track and hits straight. It is high but doesn’t get the distance. Chance for Veda in the deep. But dropped. What a miss! Four runs from that over. SA need 58 runs to winnfrom 42 balls. Easy, you would feel.
South Africa Women 72/2 after 12 overs
Yadav continues. Giving the ball generous flight. Four runs off the first four balls. Du Preez advances down the track off the fifth ball, but can’t find the gap. Nearly a mix-up between the South Africans, But Luus safely back at the crease in the end. Four runs from that over.
South Africa Women 68/2 after 11 overs
Pandey back into the attack. Taken for runs by Luus. Two fours in the last two balls. 13 runs from that over.
South Africa Women 55/2 after 10 overs
Yadav continues. Three runs off the first three balls. The fourth ball has du Preez sweeping but there is no connection. An attacking shot off the next ball. The ball goes one bounce to long on. The last ball is a googly and the batter doesn’t pick it. Could have easily chopped it on to her stumps. Four runs off that over. South Africa shouldn’t be unduly worried at the halfway stage.
South Africa Women 51/2 after 9 overs
Patil continues. Luus collects a boundary. Then du Preez hits one forcefully to deep mid-wicket. Smriti Mandhana pulls out an incredible stop at the fence. She jumps up to catch the ball, but seeing that the momentum would carry her over the ropes, flicks the ball back into play. Saves a certain six. Eight runs from that over.
South Africa Women 43/2 after 8 overs
Poonam Yadav into the attack now. Another spinner. Had a fine World Cup, one might remember. She is giving it a real tweak. Du Preez comes down the track to smother the spin. Only three runs from that over.
South Africa Women 40/2 after 7 overs
Anuja Patil comes in with her right-arm off-break. Five runs from the over. The SA women rotate the strike well in that over.
South Africa Women 35/2 after 6 overs
Gayakwad intio the attack. Van Niekerk hits Gayakwad for a boundary off the third ball, but Gayakwad comes back to have the batter stumped. Mignon du Preez comes in. Six runs from that over.
South Africa Women 29/1 after 5 overs
Vastrakar continues. Van Niekerk going after her. Walks down the pitch and hits her to the straight fence twice in two balls, which impels the ‘keeper to come up to the stumps. Van Niekerk gets another boundary though. She is playing a captain’s innings!
South Africa Women 16/1 after 4 overs
Rajeshwari Gayakwad comes in with her left-arm orthodox spin. Van Niekerk tries a fac=ncy reverse sweep, but can’t connect. That was not too far away from her off-stump. A good over from Gayakwad. Only three runs from that over.
South Africa Women 13/1 after 3 overs
Van Niekerk hammers a boundary through extra cover. That was a superb shot. Vastrakar comes back well. Bowling a good line, with a bit of movement away. Gets the wicket of Lee as she hits her straight to Patil at long off. Sune Luus comes in. The batters had changed ends though as the ball was in the air. A single off the last ball for Van Niekerk.