The decisive ODI between India and South Africa is being played today at the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam. Both the teams were tied at 1-1, so this match has become to decide the series winner. The match started with Indian captain KL Rahul winning the toss and choosing to bowl, which gave the team an opportunity to take an early lead.
South Africa had a very bad start
South Africa’s innings had a very bad start. In the very first over, Arshdeep Singh sent Ryan Rickelton to the pavilion without opening the account. This initial setback was a big blow for the visiting team, but after this, Quinton de Kock and Temba Bavuma took the team out of trouble with intelligent batting. Together they made an important partnership of 112 runs. Bavuma scored 48 runs with the help of 5 fours and Ravindra Jadeja got him caught by Virat Kohli and sent him to the pavilion.
Even after Bavuma’s dismissal, the South African innings did not stop. Matthew Britzke and De Kock maintained the run pace by adding 54 runs for the third wicket. But at this very juncture, Indian fast bowler Prasidh Krishna changed the course of the match with his deadly balls. In the same over, he first dismissed Britzke LBW for 24 runs and then dismissed Aiden Markram for only 1 run on the last ball of the over. This double strike broke the back of the African innings.
Famous Krishna broke the back of Africa
The famous Krishna did not stop here. Later, he also took the big wicket of South Africa’s most aggressive batsman Quinton de Kock. De Kock looked in great form in this match and played a explosive inning of 106 runs in 89 balls, which included 8 fours and 6 sixes. This was the 23rd ODI century of his career and the seventh three-figure score against India.
As soon as De Kock was out, the pace of the innings started slowing down. After this Kuldeep Yadav also showed his talent. He gave another big blow to South Africa by dismissing Dewald Brevis for 29 runs and Marco Janssen for 17 runs in the same over.
In this important match, India made a change in its playing eleven, where Tilak Verma was included in the team in place of Washington Sundar. For South Africa, Nandre Berger and Tony De Jorzi remained out due to injury and in their place Otniel Bartman and Ryan Rickelton got a place in the playing eleven.
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