Captain Suryakumar Yadav's century followed by wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav's five-wicket haul helped India beat South Africa by 106 runs in the third and final T20 cricket match on Thursday to clinch the Series 1. Made it equal to 1. The Indian team, sent to bat first, scored 201 runs for 7 wickets. Suryakumar scored 100 runs in 56 balls with the help of 7 fours and 8 sixes, which is his fourth T20 century. Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 60 runs in 41 balls. Both of them made a partnership of 112 runs for the third wicket. In response, South Africa's team scored 13. Was out for 95 runs in 5 overs.
Let us tell you that Kuldeep (Kuldeep Yadav Five Wicket Hall vs SA) took five wickets for 17 runs in 2.5 overs, which included 3 wickets taken in the 14th over. Ravindra Jadeja got two wickets while fast bowlers Mukesh Kumar and Arshdeep Singh got one wicket each. For South Africa, David Miller scored the highest score of 35 while captain Aiden Markram scored 25 runs. Apart from him, only Donovan Ferreira (12) could reach double digits.
Shubman Gill and Jaiswal started the innings and added 29 runs in 14 balls but left arm spinner Keshav Maharaj did not allow this partnership to progress further. He sent Gill and Tilak Verma to the pavilion by taking two wickets in 2 balls. After the powerplay, India's score was 62 runs for two wickets. Only 25 runs were scored in the next four overs and after ten overs the score was 87 runs for two wickets. After this both of them took an aggressive attitude.
Suryakumar played shots all around the field to the South African bowlers. He thrashed fast bowler Andile Phelukwayo the most. He scored 22 runs in the 13th over of Felukwayo, which included 3 sixes and a four. He completed his half-century with a six. Jaiswal also hit Lizard Williams for 6 at midwicket. He was caught by Reeza Hendricks while trying to play a high shot to wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi at long off.
Suryakumar also completed his century by taking two runs off Williams' ball. Soon after, he returned after being caught by Matthew Brieske on the boundary off Williams' ball. The first match of the series in Durban was washed out due to rain while South Africa won the second match in Gqberha by five wickets. Now both the teams will play a one-day series, the first match of which is going to be played against Wanderers on 17th December.
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