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12/19 11:39 CST India wins T20 series against South Africa after winning 5th
match by 30 runs
India wins T20 series against South Africa after winning 5th match by 30 runs
AHMEDABAD, India (AP) --- India won the Twenty20 series from South Africa 3-1
after taking the last match by 30 runs on Friday.
Second fifties in the five-match series by Tilak Varma and Hardik Pandya
powered India to 231-5. South Africa's chase collapsed from 120-1 to 201-8.
Jasprit Bumrah triggered South Africa's downfall when he caught and bowled
Quinton de Kock on 65 off a yorker and finished with an outstanding 2-17 from
four overs.
Leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy was plundered for 23 runs in one over by de Kock
and Dewald Brevis but had the last laugh with 4-53.
Sanju Samson, covering for an injured Shubman Gill, used his first T20 since
October to open with Abhishek Sharma and smash 63 runs inside six overs and 97
after nine.
Samson's and Abhishek's 11-runs-per-over launch was extended by Varma and
Pandya, who combined for 105 in 7.2 overs until they both fell in the last over.
Varma hit a 30-ball fifty with his seventh boundary and Pandya got to fifty in
16 balls thanks to his fifth six, over deep midwicket.
Pandya was eventually caught at deep midwicket for 63 off 25 and walked off to
standing ovation, followed two balls later by Varma, who ran himself out off
the penultimate ball for 73 off 42.
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