RANCHI: In the lead up to the upcoming T20 World Cup Down Under, home boys and most of their fans and illustrious India teammates are busy warming up in Perth. Ishaan Kishan Got a chance to make headlines at the Floodlight JSCA International Stadium here on Sunday.
as it happened
Chasing 279 on a track that was a bit slow but without any demons in it, the southpaw started patiently and once set, scored an aggressive 93 off 84 balls with four fours and seven sixes. took the way.
Shreyas Iyer Restarted from where he left off in the previous match (50) and anchored India to a seven-wicket series-level win with 25 balls to spare. In the process, the Mumbai cricketer scored his second ODI century. This was his fifth 50-plus score in the last six ODI innings.
The Kolkata Knight Riders captain hit 15 fours during his innings. Along with the Patna-born wicketkeeper-batsman, Iyer put on a 161-run partnership from 155 balls for the third wicket to steady the ship for India, which was 48 for two in 8.5 overs.
Captain Shikhar Dhawan played a careless shot and came down the crease and lost his off-stump to the left-arm pacer. Wayne Parnell, Shubman Gill played a blistering inning of 28 runs before being unlucky to give a short catch to the fast bowler Kagiso RabadaJoe went down in a flash to miss the opportunity in his follow-through.
From that time, it was the Iyer-Kishan show. The duo ensured that there were no further hiccups in the chase and although Kishan was only seven runs short of his maiden international century, India went home with ease. Sanju Samson joined the party.
Earlier, Aiden Markram and Reeza Hendricks shared a 129-run stand for the third wicket with successive half-centuries, taking South Africa to 278/7 in 50 overs.
Leading Indian bowlers who have been criticized for their death bowling in the last few weeks mohammed siraji Did a great job of stopping the visitors from crossing the 300-run mark. With 3-38 in 10 overs, Siraj easily became the choice of the Indian bowlers.
Shardul Thakur He also bowled hard to help Siraj and the Proteas could only manage 57 runs in the last 10 overs for the loss of two wickets. Some poor shot selection by the visitors helped India too. Markram and Hendrix joined forces when South Africa were 40/2 after the mandatory first powerplay and built a vital partnership before Hendricks returned, failing to clear a deep square-leg boundary from Siraj, in which to debut. He was an all-rounder. Shahbaz Ahmed Hold onto a clean grip.
Heinrich Klasseny Started fast and took the help of two sixes and fours in the run of 30 runs in 26 balls. However, a soft dismissal – a good catch from Siraj in an attempt to go inside-out off Kuldeep Yadav’s delivery. Two balls later, in the next over bowled by Washington Sundar, Markram failed to dismiss Dhawan at extra cover while trying to hit the spinner.
Narrate David Miller Looked in good contact again but could not find the spare gear as the Proteas fell short by at least 20.