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Axar Patel turned the match towards India by taking the catch of David Miller.
India defeated South Africa by 11 runs in the third T20. South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl at the SuperSport Park Stadium in Centurion. India scored 219 runs losing 6 wickets. Tilak Verma scored 107 runs and Abhishek Sharma scored 50 runs.
Against the target of 220 runs, South Africa scored 208 runs after losing 7 wickets. Marco Janson from the team scored fifty on 16 balls. He was out after scoring 54 runs, but could not lead the team to victory. Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets. India is now ahead 2-1 in the 4th T-20 series. The last match will be played tomorrow in Johannesburg.
live scorecard of the match
Playing-11 of both the teams
India: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ramandeep Singh, Axar Patel, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi and Arshdeep Singh.
South Africa: Aiden Markram (captain), Reeza Hendricks, Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, Henrik Klaasen (wk), David Miller, Andile Simelane, Marco Yanson, Gerald Coetzee, Lutho Sipamla and Keshav Maharaj.
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07:18 pm13 November 2024
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India leads 2-1 in the series
India has taken a 2-1 lead in the series by winning the third T20 match by 11 runs. The team won the first match by 61 runs. Whereas South Africa won the second T20 by 3 wickets. The last match will be played in Johannesburg on 15 November.
07:17 pm13 November 2024
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Arshdeep saved 25 runs in the last over
Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets.
South Africa needed 51 runs in 2 overs. Marco Janson scored 26 runs in the 19th over against Hardik Pandya here. Arshdeep Singh again defended 25 runs in the last over. He gave 13 runs in the over and made India win the match by 11 runs.
Arshdeep took 3 wickets. He sent Marco Jansson, Ryan Rickelton and Henrik Klaasen to the pavilion. Varun Chakraborty got 2 wickets from India.
07:15 pm13 November 2024
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Yanson out after scoring fifty
Marco Yanson scored 54 runs on 17 balls.
Marco Janson kept South Africa in the match after the fall of Clason’s wicket. He scored fifty in just 16 balls by hitting 4 fours and 5 sixes. He was out in the 20th over on the score of 54 runs. He was LBW by Arshdeep Singh. After Yanson’s wicket, India won the match by 11 runs.
06:59 pm13 November 2024
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Arshdeep sent Clason to the pavilion
Heinrich Klaasen scored 41 runs.
Arshdeep Singh sent Heinrich Klaasen to the pavilion on the fourth ball of the 18th over. Clausen was caught by Tilak Verma at extra covers position. Clason scored 41 runs in 22 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes.
06:47 PM13 November 2024
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Excellent catch by Akshar, Miller out
David Miller scored 18 runs.
In the 16th over, Akshar Patel took an excellent catch by jumping in the air at the deep mid-wicket boundary. His catch sent David Miller to the pavilion. Miller scored 18 runs on 18 balls. He hit 1 four and 1 six. Miller’s wicket went to Hardik Pandya.
06:38 PM13 November 2024
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Clausen hits hat-trick sixes against Chakraborty
Heinrich Klaasen scored 23 runs in Varun Chakraborty’s over.
In the 14th over of the innings, Heinrich Klaasen hit 3 consecutive sixes against Varun Chakraborty. Chakraborty bowled all three balls short pitch, all three were sent out of the ground by Clason.
Chakraborty again bowled a short pitch on the fourth ball of the over. Clausen hit it towards covers, but captain Suryakumar Yadav dropped a simple catch. Clausen hit a four on the next ball. 23 runs were scored from the over.
06:25 pm13 November 2024
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Markram out after hitting 2 sixes
Varun Chakraborty took 2 wickets.
In the 10th over, South African captain Aiden Markram hit 2 sixes against Chakraborty. He also got caught out on the last ball of the same over. Markram scored 29 runs on 18 balls.
06:23 pm13 November 2024
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Stubbs LBW after scoring 12 runs
Akshar Patel took 1 wicket for 29 runs in 4 overs.
Akshar Patel made Tristan Stubbs LBW in the 9th over of the innings. Stubbs was out trying to play a reverse sweep. He scored 12 runs by hitting 2 fours in 12 balls.
06:04 PM13 November 2024
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South Africa lost 2 wickets in powerplay
South Africa scored 55 runs in 6 overs of powerplay. The team also lost the wickets of both the openers. Ryan Rickelton was out after scoring 20 runs and Reeza Hendricks was out after scoring 21 runs. Varun Chakraborty and Arshdeep Singh got 1-1 wicket.
06:01 PM13 November 2024
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Reeza Hendrix out after scoring 21 runs
Reeza Hendricks hit 4 fours.
Varun Chakraborty took the wicket of Reeza Hendricks in the last over of the powerplay. Hendricks was stumped out after scoring 21 runs on 13 balls. He hit 4 fours in the innings.
05:50 PM13 November 2024
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Rickelton bowled after donating his life
Ryan Rickelton scored 20 runs on 15 balls.
Ryan Rickelton got a lease of life in the second over. Axar Patel dropped his catch at mid-off position. Rickelton was out in the very next over. He was bowled by Arshdeep Singh. Rickelton scored 20 runs on 15 balls, his innings included 2 fours and a six.
05:42 pm13 November 2024
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The game started after half an hour
The game could be resumed at 11:10 pm, half an hour after the game was stopped due to insects. South Africa continued its innings with a score of 7/0.
05:16 pm13 November 2024
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The game stopped after just one over
The game stopped for about half an hour.
South Africa had batted one over. After which a lot of rain insects came into the stadium, due to which the game had to be stopped at 10:43 pm. The umpires felt that the insects were causing trouble to the batsmen.
05:11 PM13 November 2024
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South Africa scored 7 runs in the first over
Ryan Rickelton and Reeza Hendricks came to open for the South African team chasing the target of 220 runs. Arshdeep Singh bowled the first over from India. 7 runs were scored in the over.
05:02 PM13 November 2024
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Tilak Verma’s centenary celebration
Tilak Verma scored 107 runs on 56 balls.
22-year-old Tilak became the second youngest Indian player to score a century in T-20 International.
Tilak Verma also scored the first century of his international career.
Tilak Verma hit 8 fours and 7 sixes.
04:50 PM13 November 2024
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India gave a target of 220 runs
After losing the toss and coming to bat first, Team India had a bad start. The team lost the wicket of Sanju Samson in the very first over. From here Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma made a century partnership. Abhishek was out after scoring 50 runs.
Tilak remained at one end, making partnerships of 58 runs with Rinku Singh and 28 runs with Ramandeep Singh. He remained not out after scoring 107 runs. In this innings he hit 8 fours and 7 sixes.
India scored 219 runs losing 6 wickets. Keshav Maharaj and Andile Simelane took 2-2 wickets for South Africa. Marco Jansson got one wicket, while one batsman was also run out.
04:45 pm13 November 2024
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Ramandeep Singh run out after scoring 15 runs
Ramandeep Singh hit a four and a six.
Ramandeep Singh, playing his debut match, was run out in the 20th over. He scored 15 runs by hitting 1 four and 1 six in 6 balls. He finally made a partnership of 28 runs in 13 balls with Tilak Verma.
04:40 PM13 November 2024
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Tilak scored his first century
Tilak Verma completed his century by hitting a four in the 19th over. He scored the first century of his international career on 51 balls. He made a century partnership with Abhishek Sharma and a fifty with Rinku Singh.
04:34 pm13 November 2024
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Rinku out after scoring 8 runs
Rinku Singh could not hit even a single four in the innings.
Andile Simelane bowled Rinku Singh in the 18th over. Rinku scored 8 runs on 13 balls. He could not hit even a single four in his innings.
04:17 PM13 November 2024
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Tilak scored fifty on 32 balls
Tilak Verma made a century partnership with Abhishek Sharma.
Tilak Verma completed his fifty by taking a single against Keshav Maharaj in the 13th over. This was the third fifty of his T20 career, he completed his half-century in 32 balls. Tilak also made a partnership of 107 runs with Abhishek Sharma for the second wicket.
04:08 PM13 November 2024
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Hardik is LBW
Hardik Pandya scored 18 runs.
Keshav Maharaj made Hardik Pandya LBW in the 13th over. Hardik scored 18 runs on 16 balls. Maharaj had earlier got Abhishek Sharma stumping out.
04:00 PM13 November 2024
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Surya out after scoring 1 run
Suryakumar Yadav has not been able to score a single fifty in the series.
India also lost the wicket of captain Suryakumar Yadav in the 10th over. He was caught at the covers boundary while attempting a six against Andile Simelane. Surya could score only 1 run on 4 balls. Simelane had sent him to the pavilion in the second T20 also.
03:52 PM13 November 2024
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Abhishek out after scoring fifty
In the 9th over, Abhishek Sharma completed his fifty in 24 balls by taking a single against Keshav Maharaj. In the same over, he also got stumped by Maharaj’s ball. Abhishek made a partnership of 107 runs with Tilak Verma. He hit 3 fours and 5 sixes in his innings of 50 runs.
03:33 PM13 November 2024
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India scored 70 runs in powerplay
Team India, who came to bat first after losing the toss, lost the wicket of Sanju Samson in the very first over. From here Tilak Verma and Abhishek Sharma scored runs quickly. Both of them made a fifty partnership in the 5th over. After the end of the powerplay, both took the score to 70 runs.
03:24 PM13 November 2024
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Tilak-Abhishek scored runs quickly
Tilak Verma scored 12 runs in the very first over.
After losing wickets in the very first over, Tilak Verma and Abhishek Sharma took over the innings from India. Both scored 12 runs in the first over and after 4 overs the score reached 42 runs. Both of them also made a fifty partnership in the 5th over and after the end of the over, the score reached 60 runs.
03:04 PM13 November 2024
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Samson could not open his account even in the third T20
Sanju Samson was bowled on the second ball of the match.
Sanju Samson, who scored a century in the first match of the series, could not even open his account in the second and third T20. He was bowled both times by Marco Yanson in the first over of the innings. Samson had scored 107 runs in the first match.
02:53 PM13 November 2024
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Hardik gave debut cap to Ramandeep
All-rounder Ramandeep Singh got a chance to debut in the third T20 against South Africa. Before the match, all-rounder Hardik Pandya gave him his debut cap. Ramandeep got the benefit of good performance for IPL and India-A. He was included in the playing-11 of the third T20 in place of Avesh Khan.
02:38 pm13 November 2024
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South Africa chose bowling
South African captain Aiden Markram also won the toss in the third match of the series in Centurion. This time also he chose bowling. The team included fast bowler Lutho Sipamala in the playing-11 in place of leg spinner Peter. Whereas India replaced Avesh Khan with Ramandeep Singh.
