The Indian stars heroic performances helps the team to seal the series. Have a look and find out the heroes of the match.
Thanks to explosive innings from Hardik Pandya and Tilak Varma, followed by a lethal bowling performance from Varun Chakravarthy, India has clinched the T20 series. In the fifth T20 match played on Friday, India defeated South Africa by 30 runs. With this victory, India secured the series 3-1. This is India’s eighth consecutive bilateral series win.
India set South Africa a target of 232 runs for victory, but the South African team could only manage 201 runs for the loss of eight wickets in their 20 overs. Varun Chakravarthy took four wickets, while Jasprit Bumrah claimed two.
Hardik Pandya became the second fastest Indian batsman to score a half-century in T20 cricket, and his century partnership with Tilak Varma (73) helped India post 231 for five in the fifth and final T20 match against South Africa. Pandya scored his seventh T20 half-century in just 16 balls. This is the second fastest fifty by an Indian batsman after Yuvraj Singh’s 12-ball half-century. Yuvraj achieved this feat against England at Kingsmead in 2007 when he hit six sixes in an over.
Hardik Pandya and Tilak Varma’s 105-run partnership:
Hardik Pandya scored 63 runs off 25 balls, including five fours and five sixes. He shared a 105-run partnership with Tilak Varma for the fourth wicket, which came off 44 balls. Tilak contributed 73 runs off 42 balls, hitting ten fours and one six.
Disappointment from Suryakumar Yadav once again:
Hardik Pandya played an remarkable innings at his home ground, while the skipper Suryakumar Yadav failed to impress one more time as he scored 5 runs only. However, Pandya and Varma’s played an steady knock by rotating the strike.
Sanju Samson’s great performance in his comeback match:
Earlier, star Indian players Abhishek Sharma (34) and Sanju Samson (37) had propelled India to 63 runs in just the sixth over. Samson, playing in place of the injured vice-captain Shubman Gill, made full use of the opportunity and strengthened his claim for a place in the squad for next year’s T20 World Cup, a team that the selection committee will be discussing in a meeting on Saturday. Samson was eventually dismissed by George Linde, caught off a delivery pitching on leg stump. Samson had started his innings with a six off Marco Jansen and also hit two impressive strokes against Ottniel Baartman.
The umpire and cameraman got injured:
Samson also got a life before being dismissed when Donovan Ferreira dropped a return catch, and the ball hit umpire Rohan Pandit near his knee. Later, a six hit by Pandya injured a member of the broadcasting team, who sustained an injury to his left arm, and the ball then bounced into the hands of a spectator ten rows behind.
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