India has defeated South Africa by 30 runs in the fifth T20 match. With this, Team India has won the five-match series 3-1. In this match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Team India, playing first, had scored a huge score of 231 runs. In response, the South African team could reach only 201 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. Hardik Pandya scored a half-century in 16 balls in the match, while Varun Chakraborty was the most successful bowler for India, taking 4 wickets.
In this match, South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl, which proved costly. In the absence of Shubman Gill, Sanju Samson opened with Abhishek Sharma. Samson got the opportunity to play his first match in the entire series against South Africa, in which he capitalized on the opportunity and scored 37 runs in 22 balls. Abhishek Sharma also scored 34 runs.
Bowlers create ruckus after Hardik-Tilak
Hardik Pandya played an inning of 63 runs in 25 balls in the fifth T20 match, during which he completed his fifty in 16 balls. This was the second fastest fifty by an Indian batsman in the history of international T20 cricket. Whereas Tilak Verma scored 73 runs in 42 balls and helped India reach the score of 231.
Quinton de Kock gave a great start to South Africa, who came to chase the target of 232 runs. Hendricks was out after scoring only 13 runs, but due to De Kock’s storm, Africa had scored 67 runs without losing any wicket in the powerplay itself.
Jasprit Bumrah turned the match
South Africa had reached 118 runs in 10 overs, but in the 11th over, Jasprit Bumrah caught De Kock on his own ball and dismissed him on the score of 65. De Kock scored 65 runs in 35 balls. After this South Africa’s run rate started slowing down. After De Kock’s dismissal, Africa was able to score 38 runs in the next 5 overs, due to which the required run rate started touching the sky. South Africa’s middle and lower order batting proved to be a complete flop.
Varun Chakraborty created Chakravyuh
Varun Chakraborty was the most successful bowler for India. Varun definitely proved to be expensive, he conceded 53 runs in 4 overs, but dismissed four South African batsmen. Varun gave away 21 runs including three sixes in the last over of his spell. Let us tell you that Varun Chakraborty has become the bowler taking the most wickets in T20 this year.
