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IND Vs SA 3rd T20 Match Report Today: Rituraj Gaikwad (Ruturaj Gaikwad) and Ishan Kishan’s excellent innings helped India beat South Africa by 48 runs in the third T20 match to save their hopes in the series.
Due to the excellent innings of Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan, India defeated South Africa in the third T20 match to save their hopes in the series. India won the third match by 48 runs to make the 5-match series 2-1. Batting first, India gave a target of 180 runs to the visiting team, in response to which the South African team could only score 131 runs. Not only this, Rishabh Pant has become the captain to lead India to the first win in the absence of Rohit Sharma this year. India played a total of 19 matches this year. In which India won all 11 matches under the captaincy of Rohit. At the same time, in his absence, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul could not get India to win.
Great partnership between Gaikwad and Ishaan
Earlier, electing to bat after losing the toss, the Indian team scored 179 runs for 5 wickets in the stipulated over. Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan got India off to a strong start with a scintillating 97-run partnership. Gakaywad scored the first international half-century of his career. He scored 57 runs in 35 balls and Ishan scored 54 runs in 35 balls. Shreyas Iyer and captain Rishabh Pant flopped once again in the third match. Iyer scored 14 runs and Pant made 6 runs. The Indian innings at one point faltered after the opening pair returned to the pavilion. In such a situation, Hardik Pandya took over one end and played an unbeaten innings of 31 runs. Dinesh Karthik, who returned to the team after a long wait, could only score 6 runs in this match.
Patel and Chahal wreak havoc
The start of South Africa, chasing the target, was not special. The Indian bowlers also rectified their mistake of the last two matches and did not give any chance to the South African batsmen to settle at the crease. Yuzvendra Chahal and Harshal Patel bowled amazingly, Chahal took 3 wickets for 18 runs. While Patel took 4 wickets for 25 runs. Indian bowlers tied the visiting team in the third T20 match. Only Heinrich Klaasen could withstand the Indian attack for a while. Klaasen scored the highest 29 runs for South Africa. At the same time, the visiting captain returned to the pavilion on 8 runs. Reeza Hendricks scored 23 and Pretorius scored 20.
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