India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Ideally, a bilateral series is decided in a way that a team gets some breathing room despite being a game down, but thanks to circumstances not in control, India cannot afford to rest easy. With rain washing down the first T20I in Durban and South Africa winning the next in Gqeberha, it\’s do-or-die for the Men in Blue as they compete in the series decider at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, where India have won three out of eight T20Is. Surprisingly, this series hasn\’t quite made the kind of noises that was expected – be it due to absence of big names or mostly due to the weather playing spoilsport, but tonight, with no rain in forecast, the game could make for a fascinating contest.
India did well in the previous game to reach 180/7, but wet conditions because of a brief spell of rain made it tough for their bowlers to defend a revised target of 152. Once Reeza Hendricks powered the Proteas to 78 in 6 overs, it was pretty much game over. Still, props to Mukesh Kumar and Mohammed Siraj to pick wickets and push the match into the penultimate over, but getting over the line was a bridge too far to cross. Nonetheless, with no room for complacency or error, India will be keen to bring out their A game without any outside factors playing a role to ensure that their unbeaten bilateral T20I series record in South Africa remains unblemished.
Will there be changes to the batting line-up is the question on everyone\’s mind. Well, ideally yes. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill may have gotten out for ducks in the previous game but if there\’s anything we have learned from the Rahul Dravid template of coaching is that players get a longer run. Ruturaj Gaikwad was reported ill by the BCCI and whether he has recovered from whatever that kept him down remains unanswered. Having said that, while the top order promises to remain unchanged, the same cannot be said about the middle order. With Shreyas Iyer and Ravi Bishnoi waiting, and the series on the line, the axe could fall on Kuldeep Yadav… and maybe, and we dare say it, Ravindra Jadeja. Iyer scored a half-century in his last T20I innings in Bengaluru; what was the reason behind his omission… we\’d never know, but you can\’t keep a player of his calibre out.
India may have lost the previous game but in Rinku Singh and captain Suryakumar Yadav, there was no shortage of positives. The India captain scored a brilliant half-century and was rewarded by the ICC by stretching his gap with the second best in the T20I rankings for batter. If SKY\’s innings was impactful, Rinku\’s legacy continues to grow. The batter showed terrific range in his batting, first playing the waiting game and then exploding and switching gears as per the need. His twin sixes off Aiden Markram, one of which shattered the glass of the media box, is another example as to why he needs to be in that flight to West Indies and the USA in six months\’ time for the T20 World Cup.
As for South Africa, there isn\’t much they need to worry about. Hendricks\’ is the wicket Indians would be after the most, along with Markram, both of whom chipped in with useful contributions and led the way for a five-wickets win through DLS. Also, for the first time on this tour, the stop clock rule will come into effect, which means neither team can afford to slack around.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:58 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: The pitch and conditions
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Pommie Mbangwa says that the pitch is just bone dry. A bit of grass on that, it\’s been very hot. \”There\’ll be lots of runs on this, it looks pretty good. Expect a whole lot of runs and many sixes,\” he says. 77 metres straight boundary, 59 metres and 69 square
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:48 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Deepak Chahar remains out
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Chahar has stayed back in India due to personal reasons which means that there will be no changes for the India in the pace department today. Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar and Arshdeep Singh it will be for India.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:30 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: SKY shows his class
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Suryakumar Yadav may have not been able to do much with the appearances he got in ODI cricket this year but he has not allowed that to affect his form in the format in which he is considered the best in the world. The Indian captain for this series is their highest run scorer this year in T20Is and has has 363 runs more than the next highest run-scorer Jaiswal
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:14 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Chances of Bishnoi being given a go
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: India chose to go with Kuldeep Yadav in the last match but there is no reason to think why they won\’t decide to get Bishnoi into the eleven today. The conditions are unlikely to be too helpful to either of the spinners though.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:00 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: India vs South Africa T20Is in bilaterals
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: The last time South Africa beat India in a bilateral T20I series was in 2015/16. Since then, the two sides have faced each other four times, with India winning two and the rest being drawn.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:53 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: The tour after this series…
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: This is the last T20I of this series and it will be followed by a three-match ODI series on December 17 at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, December 19 at St George\’s Park in Gqeberha and the final match in Paarl. After that the two sides face each other in two Test matches starting on December 26 in Centurion and January in Cape Town.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:41 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Can Jaiswal come good?
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: It remain to be seen whether India will give him another go today considering Ruturaj Gaikwad is fit. Jaiswal is capable of some extremely aggressive batting but we couldn\’t really see much of him in the second T20I. He has a strike rate of 161.57 from his 14 T20Is which is quite extraordinary.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:29 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Mohammed Siraj
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: All pacers struggled to find any consistency in the damp conditions in Gqeberha during the second T20I. All except, that is, Mohammed Siraj. Siraj went for 1/27 in three overs and while those might not look like impressive figures, one must remember that this was when South Africa were tonking the bowlers everywhere.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:21 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Tilak Varma on playing in South Africa
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Most of the players in this Indian squad are playing in South Africa for the first time and those who aren\’t have had scant experience of playing the country. It is a first in this country for Tilak Varma but preparing for new conditions is nothing new for him. \”For every series, I was preparing for the conditions. If you see, West Indies was a bit on the slower side, and if you see Ireland, (the pitches) were similar to South Africa wickets, it was a bit bouncy and seaming a bit. We were preparing according to the (conditions) and we are India. So, it has been a great experience and great learning.\”
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:03 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: New faces in store for South Africa
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Marco Jansen and Gerald Coetzee won\’t play in the third T20I. The pair are set to play first class cricket in preparation for the Test series against India later in this tour. It means that there will be a place in this squad now for either Nandre Burger and Ottniel Baartman, if not both.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:47 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: What the Indian squad could look like today
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: One can expect Shreyas Iyer to return to day, apart from Gaikwad opening the batting. You can go ahead and check out how we think India could line up today here.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:28 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Rinku getting better with each game
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Rinku Singh has shown that he is pretty much the perfect T20 batter at the moment. His finishing abilities once he comes in the death overs is something he has demonstrated time and again but in the second T20I he showed just how adept he is at constructing an innings. Rinku came in during the sixth over of the innings and hit a four off the first ball he faced. He went on stay unbeaten on 68 off 39 balls.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:18 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Reeza Hendricks
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: The opener showed just why there were so many people saying that he deserved to open for South Africa in the 2023 World Cup ahead of Temba Bavuma. South Africa eased through a chase of 152 in 15 overs largely thanks to the carnage he unleashed early on. He had scored 49 in 27 balls and surely the Indians would be hoping to get him out as quickly as possible.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:03 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Meanwhile, in Navi Mumbai
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: It has been a good day for the Indian women\’s team on Day 1 of their only Test match against England at the DY Patil Stadium. India won the toss and chose to bat, Sateesh Shubha was their highest scorer thus far with 69 in 76. Shubha, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia and Deepti Sharma all scored 60s, with the latter being unbeaten on 60 off 95. She has Pooja Vastrakar at the other end on four off 12. India are 410/7 at stumps on Day 1. Lauren Bell is England\’s highest wicket-taker thus far with two wickets while Kate Cross, Charlie Dean and Sophie Ecclestone taking one each.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:56 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: The weather!
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: The exclamation mark at the end of that title is to signify the fact that this phenomenon has played as significant a role in this series as either of the two sides have. It washed out the first T20I and curtailed the second. But thankfully, chances of rain is negligible today at the Wanderers.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:45 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Gaikwad for Gill?
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Ruturaj Gaikwad was ill during the second T20I but he is fine now. Considering this is the last T20I of the series, he might be given a go ahead of Shubman Gill today.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:22 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: South Africa full squad
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Reeza Hendricks, Matthew Breetzke, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Andile Phehlukwayo, Lizaad Williams, Tabraiz Shamsi, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Ottniel Baartman, Donovan Ferreira
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:20 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: India full squad
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Ravi Bishnoi, Ishan Kishan, Washington Sundar, Ruturaj Gaikwad
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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:00 PM
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: IND vs SA, Hello and welcome all!
India vs South Africa Live Score, 3rd T20: IND vs SA – The series has gone by within the blink of an eye but here we are… in Johannesburg for the decider. The two spells of rain have not done India any good. It washed out the first game of the series and made it tough for their bowlers to grip the ball in Gqeberha. As South Africa muscled their way to a five-wicket-win to take a 1-0 lead, India were pushed into a corner, where they need to find a way back. A defeat here for the Men in Blue will give South Africa the series, and while India cannot win it, they certainly can make sure that the trophy is shared.