India's biggest win over South Africa in T20: Series was drawn 1-1; Surya scored a century, Kuldeep took 5 wickets

Surya scored a century on 55 balls, while birthday boy Kuldeep Yadav took 5 wickets.

India defeated South Africa by 106 runs in the third match of the T-20 series. This is Team India's biggest win over South Africa in T-20. The previous biggest win was 88 runs, which Team India achieved in Rajkot.

By winning the decisive match, Team India was successful in drawing the 3-match series 1-1. The team was trailing 0-1 after losing the second match by 5 wickets, as the first match of the series was canceled due to rain.

The host team, which came to chase the target of 202 runs at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, was all out for 95 runs in 13.5 overs. Earlier, Team India scored 201 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs with the help of Surya's century. Suryakumar Yadav was the player of the match. He played an inning of 100 runs on 56 balls. While Kuldeep Yadav took 5 wickets.

Now there will be a 3-match ODI series between the two teams. The first match will be played in Johannesburg on 17 December.

Suryakumar Yadav was injured while fielding

Suryakumar Yadav got injured while fielding. Reeza Hendricks played a shot in extra cover on the third ball of the second over. Surya, who was fielding, stopped the ball from reaching the boundary, but while stopping the ball, he twisted his ankle. He was not even able to walk. The team physio came and advised him to rest. Ravindra Jadeja took over the responsibility of captain in place of Surya.

South African team scattered in the middle 7.5 overs

The South African team could not recover after losing 3 wickets in the powerplay. The team lost 7 wickets while scoring 53 runs in 7.5 overs. In these overs, Kuldeep took 5 wickets and Jadeja took 2 wickets.

South Africa suffered 3 setbacks in the powerplay.

South Africa, which set out to chase the target of 202 runs, did not have a good start. Mohammad Siraj created pressure by bowling a maiden in the first over. Mukesh Kumar got the benefit of this pressure in the second over. Mukesh showed Matthew Britzky (4 runs) the way to the pavilion. After that Reeza Hendricks was run out in the third over.

After losing the wickets of the openers in the first three overs, the African team came under pressure and by the end of the powerplay, Clausen was also out. He was caught by Arshdeep Singh at the hands of Rinku Singh on the fourth ball of the sixth over. In the powerplay, the African team lost 3 wickets in scoring 42 runs. After the sixth over the team's score was 42/3.

India's score 201/7 due to Surya's century

The visiting team, after losing the toss and batting first, scored 201 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Suryakumar Yadav played an inning of 100 runs on 56 balls, while Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 60 runs. Surya has scored his fourth century in T-20 International. He has come at par with Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell in the list of batsmen who have scored most T20 centuries in the world. At the same time, Jaiswal scored his third fifty.

Captain Suryakumar Yadav completed his century on 55 balls.

Indian batsmen failed in death overs

After batting brilliantly in the middle overs, Indian players could not score big in the death overs. A total of 25 runs were scored in the 17th and 18th overs. From here it seemed that India would score 211 or 213 runs, but Nandre Berger was economical in the 19th over and gave only 6 runs. Rinku Singh also got out in this over. Due to this 6 run over and Rinku's wicket, the pressure was created and in the last over, 9 runs were scored while 3 wickets also fell. In the last 4 overs, India scored 40 runs and 4 wickets fell.

Explosive innings of Surya-Yashasvi in middle overs

After a mixed performance in the powerplay, captain Suryakumar Yadav and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a lot of runs. In the middle 10 overs, Team India lost only one wicket in scoring 99 runs. After 16 overs, Team India's score was 161/3.

Jaiswal's third half-century. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal played a half-century of 60 runs. He scored a half-century in 34 balls with the help of 6 fours and 3 sixes. This is Yashasvi Jaiswal's third T20 half-century. He was out for zero in the last match.

Surya's half-century with a six. Captain Suryakumar Yadav scored a half-century with a six. He scored a fifty in the second consecutive match. He completed his fifty in the 13th over.

Surya-Jaiswal's century partnership: After losing two consecutive wickets for 29 runs, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and captain Suryakumar Yadav took Team India's score beyond 100. Both of them made a partnership of 116 runs for the third wicket.

Fast start for the openers, Maharaj gave 2 blows

Team India had a good start after coming to bat after losing the toss for the second consecutive match. In the first 2 overs of the power play, the openers scored 29 runs including 6 boundaries, but Keshav Maharaj, who came in the third over, gave two blows to Team India at the score of 29. He showed the way to the pavilion to Gill on the second ball of this over and Tilak Verma on the third ball.