Sports : In the third and final match of the series, South Africa defeated India by 49 runs. Team India was all out for 178 runs in 18.3 overs. In the third match, Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first. Which was heavy on him because South Africa made a big score of 228 runs after this. Which Team India failed to achieve .
Before the start of the Mission T20 World Cup, the Indian team has captured 2-1 in the T20 series against South Africa. Team India had already won the series but their eyes were on a clean sweep in Indore, although South Africa showed great performance in the last match and defeated India by 49 runs.
Team India, playing without Virat Kohli and KL Rahul, found it difficult to tamper with the batting order here. Batting first, South Africa scored 227 runs, giving India a target of 228 runs. But Team India got buried under the pressure of this big score and could not make a comeback in the match.
Was the change in batting heavy?
Due to the absence of Virat-Rahul, Team India made changes in its playing-11, but here the batting order had to be changed as well. Rishabh Pant came to the opening with Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer came to bat at number-3 and Dinesh Karthik came to bat at number four. And Suryakumar Yadav, who was in the form, came very late.
However, Rahul Dravid himself told that this was the last T20 match, so all the changes that could be made was this opportunity. Many players had got very less chances, in such a situation it was very important to give them more chances.
For Team India, the experiment in Indore turned out to be heavy, because Rohit Sharma could not open the account. Rishabh Pant got a good start, but he could not make a big score. Dinesh Karthik played a blistering innings of 46 runs, although he could not go beyond it.
India won the series 2-1
India scored only 178 runs in this match and lost the match by 49 runs. Team India may have lost the match, but they won the T20 series by 2-1. Team India had earlier also defeated Australia 2-1 and has now defeated Africa. Team India will now leave for the T20 World Cup.
• Thiruvananthapuram T20: India won by 8 wickets
• Guwahati T20: India won by 16 runs
• Indore T20: India lost by 49 runs
home series against south africa
• October 2015, South Africa beat Indian team 2-0
• September 2019, the two-match T20I series was tied at 1-1
• June 2022, the five-match T20I series was tied at 2-2
• October 2022, India won the three-match series 2-1
