We'll see you in half-hour. You can get a recap of the innings in Sidharth Monga's live blog.
Kuldeep Yadav We started well, Arshdeep and Harshit, they kept tight lines in seven-eight overs. When spinners came, it was gripping a bit. Tried to mix the pace. Bowling with a dry ball is a luxury after the first two games. We lost 20 successive tosses, finally we won it. Very happy. (Reviews and chat with Rohit) In DRS, I'm someone who's very bad. He keeps pulling my leg. Whenever I'm bowling, if I try to hit the pad and succeed in that, I feel every ball is wicket. When you have a former captain and KL too, especially in DRS calls, as a bowler you feel like every not out is out. You need seniors like that to guide you. I feel wicket is good to bat on. Because of the 34-over ball-change rule, if the ball is dry, it was holding in the pitch. It wasn't easy to score if there is turn. I tried variations too - legspin, googly, flipper.
nologic: "They were cruising for 320 but tried for 350 " Well put
Deep: "The bowling scorecard is reminiscent of the great 2000s AUS side.. where Bracken's left arm accuracy (Arshdeep) and Warne/ Hogg's incisive wristspin (Kuldeep) allowed Lee or Tait to buy wickets (Prasidh.. probably not as quick)."
Eshii: "It will be very interesting to see if dew plays its role"
Abhilash : "Kudos to ICC for making it only one ball from the 35th over. Long lost reverse swings are back into the ODI game! "
5:13pm An innings with two contrasting halves. QDK bossed it in the first, Bavuma was good too but lost his rhythm before falling to Jadeja. QDK then tonned up but wickets started falling regularly at the other end. Markram was pushed to No. 5 and Rickelton got the opening slot. Neither could contribute much. Brevis was good in his slightly chancy knock. Things really changed in Prasidh's second spell. He got Breetzke and Prasidh in the 29th over. He got de Kock in the 33rd too, which really slowed SA down. Later on, they tried to squeeze every run possible, and some fun with Kuldeep and reviews. Do read the above mid-innings interview, it's charming, earnest and informative.
OEG Baartman b Prasidh Krishna 3 (14m 7b 0x4 0x6) SR: 42.85
sulav dahal: "sorry to bother but is it a 3 match or 5 match series? is it a decider?" 3 matches, and yes it's the decider
END OF OVER:47 | 4 Runs | SA: 263/9 | RR: 5.59
- Keshav Maharaj15 (27b)
- Ottneil Baartman2 (4b)
- Harshit Rana8-2-44-0
- Prasidh Krishna9-0-59-3
Mustafa Moudi : "From 143/2 after 25 Overs, South Africa will have to settle with 260-270 as their Final Over. They have Great Batting but seems like they are always in T20 Mode. Need to learn the art of Anchoring or at least settling before attacking !!"
Atharva Nagpal: "is the pitch tricky to bat on now? Or has the batting been average?" I'm afraid it's more the latter
Nazir Ahamed: "Dear Cricinfo, Pls confirm is this the same match that I've seen for 168/3?" Yep, that one only
Slip in. Fielders tight
Cheer as Harshit comes on
END OF OVER:46 | 1 Run | SA: 259/9 | RR: 5.63
- Keshav Maharaj13 (23b)
- Ottneil Baartman0 (2b)
- Prasidh Krishna9-0-59-3
- Kuldeep Yadav10-1-41-4
Abdul: "One batting order change, complete collapse of South Africa" At least they have QDK's ton
ash : "whoever predicted 250 all out earlier was on point this is basically that " Effectively, yeah
Nazir Ahamed: "Dear Cricinfo, Pls confirm is this the same match that I've seen for 168/3?"
END OF OVER:45 | (wicket maiden) | SA: 258/9 | RR: 5.73
- Ottneil Baartman0 (2b)
- Keshav Maharaj12 (17b)
- Kuldeep Yadav10-1-41-4
- Prasidh Krishna8-0-58-3
MC: "Prasidh has a right to be secretly miffed here. Deserved the fifer imo"
