Yuzvendra Chahal and Harshal Patel guaranteed seven wickets between them to lead India to an agreeable 48-run triumph against South Africa in the third of five T20 Internationals at the Rajasekhara Reddy Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.
Having effectively pursued a record 212 in the main game in Delhi and 149 in the second in Cuttack the vacationers were set an objective of 180 yet lost wickets right away and routinely to downturn to 131 all out in light of India's 179-5 with a top score of only 29 from Heinrich Klaasen.
South Africa currently lead the series 2:1.
India's openers Ruturaj Gaikwad (57) and Ishan Kishan (54) gave the home side a flying beginning with an initial stand of 97 preceding three speedy wickets eased back the scoring rate when a sum of around 200 appeared to be possible at the midway stage with India 97-1.
Gaikwad was in crushing structure as he took 20 runs from Anrich Nortje's most memorable over crushing a sum of seven fours and two sixes from 35 balls before a main edge was sublimely gotten off his own bowling by Keshav Maharaj.
Shreyas Iyer (14) cleared passed on arm wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi to Nortje at square leg and Ishan trailed behind very much trapped in the profound by Reeza Hendricks off Dwaine Pretorius subsequent to hitting five fours and two sixes from 35 conveyances.
Pretorius gathered a second wicket when skipper Rishabh Pant confounded a hurled off drive to chief Temba Bavuma and the runs started to evaporate similarly as India were hoping to speed up. Pretorius was especially powerful bowling wide yorkers and could have had far better figures than 2-29 from his four overs had David Miller and Rassie van der Dussen not dropped gets in the profound.
Shamsi finished his four overs without precedent for the series for an arrival of 1-36 however Maharaj's wicket cost him 24 runs from only two overs while Nortje bowled only two overs for 23 runs.
Wayne Parnell and Kagiso Rabada had indistinguishable figures of 3-0-20-0 coming into the last two overs of the innings and Rabada had Dinesh Karthik (6) got at mid on to get done with 1-31 while Parnell surrendered 12 from the last over to wrap up with 0-32 with Hardik Pandya completing unbeaten on 31 from 21 balls with four fours.
Bavuma (8) and individual opener Reeza Hendricks (23) both toe-finished drives to mid on while van der Dussen (1) edged his fourth ball from legspinner Chahal (3-20) to 'manager Pant. Pretorius (20 from 16 balls) withdrew in the way while David Miller (3) was misled by a delayed off-shaper from seamer Patel (4-25) which he could head to cover.
At the point when Klaasen tumbled to Chahal in the fifteenth over the game was successfully over at 100-6 and the tail immediately collapsed notwithstanding an unbeaten 22 from 18 balls by Parnell.
The fourth and fifth games are in Rajkot and Bengaluru on Friday and Sunday.
SOUTH AFRICA: Temba Bavuma (capt), Reeza Hendricks, Dwaine Pretorius, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), David Miller, Wayne Parnell, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Tabraiz Shamsi, Anrich Nortje
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