India vs South Africa 3rd T20i: India Wins A Close Match.

India vs South Africa’s 3rd match was played on 13th November, in the current ongoing T20i series and before the 3rd match of the series it was leveled at 1-1 in a 4-match series. The 3rd T20i match was played in Supersport Park, Centurion on 13th November at 8:30 pm. Both the captains Surya Kumar Yadav captain of the Indian team and Aiden Markram captain of the South Africa team were out for the toss where Aiden Markram won the toss and decided to bowl first and put India to bat first in the 3rd T20i match. During the toss both captains said they had 1-1 changes in their team for India it was Ramandeep Singh who made his international debut by replacing Avesh Khan and for South Africa it was Lutho Sipamla who replaced Nqabayomzi Peter. Both the India openers Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson were ready to start the innings, India did not get the start they had wanted as they lost an early wicket in the form of Sanju Samson who got out on a duck, but after that Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma had a good partnership which has promoted up the order in this match in place of the captain Surya Kumar Yadav Abhishek Sharma made 50 runs off 25 balls and Tilak Verma made 107 runs of 57 balls which helped team India to reach a total of 219-6 in their quota of 20 overs. Later on, when South Africa came to bat they needed 220 runs to win the match, South Africa didn’t have a very good start they had an ideal start but they lost 2 of their wickets during the Powerplay. South Africa was always behind in the game as they kept on giving wickets at regular intervals, but at the end when there was no hope left and South Africa needed 51 off 12 balls Marco Jansen played an incredible knock and scored 54 runs off 17 balls with 4-4s and 5-6s. He took the match so close in the end but with India’s exceptional bowling with Arshdeep Singh picking 3 wickets Varun Chakravarthy taking 2 wickets and 1-1 each for Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel, South Africa was only able to score 208-7 with that India win the match by 11 runs and gain the lead in the series with 2-1. Tilak Verma was given the Player of the Match for his incredible hundred.