The Indian cricket team defeated South Africa by 30 runs in the last T20 match of the 5-match series. With this, Team India won the series 3-1. In the last match of this series, while the South African batsmen made a brilliant start in achieving Team India's target of 232 runs, the Indian bowlers turned the match with brilliant bowling. There were many players from Team India who led to victory in this match. We are going to talk about 5 such players later in this report.
Amazing work of Jasprit Bumrah
In this match where both the teams together scored more than 400 runs, Jasprit Bumrah bowled amazingly. In this match, Bumrah took 2 wickets for 17 runs in a spell of 4 overs. Bumrah completely changed the course of this match on his own.
Hardik Pandya's stormy innings
Hardik Pandya's batting in the fifth T20 was amazing. Hardik played a strong inning of 63 runs in 25 balls against South Africa. This innings included 5 fours and 5 powerful sixes. Hardik started his innings in this match with a six. Hardik continued to fire against South Africa till he got out.
Tilak Verma did wonders
Like Hardik, Tilak Verma also played an amazing inning in this match. Tilak played an inning of 73 runs in 42 balls in the 5th T20. This innings included 10 fours and 1 sharp six. Tilak has been consistently performing well for Team India in T20 and he did the same against South Africa.
Varun Chakraborty took 4 wickets
Varun Chakraborty once again showed that he is the most reliable bowler of Team India in this format. Even though Varun gave 53 runs in his 4 overs in the 5th T20. But despite this, he dismissed 4 strong batsmen of South Africa. He also included the wickets of Aiden Markram and Donovan Ferreira in two consecutive balls.
Sanju Samson showed his strength
Sanju Samson, who came to play the match for the first time in this series, played an amazing innings. Samson, who came to start the innings, played an inning of 37 runs in 22 balls. In this innings he hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. Opening the innings, he added 63 runs in 5.4 overs with Abhishek Sharma (34).
