De Kock and van der Dussen notched up brilliant individual knocks to power South Africa to 287 runs in the third and final ODI in the bid to clean sweep the series.
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South Africa batsmen Quinton de Kock (124) and top-order batter Rassie Van der Dussen (52) notched up brilliant individual knock to power the hosts to 287 runs in the third and final ODI at Newlands, Cape Town on Sunday. Asked to bat, the hosts lost their in-form opener Janneman Malan (1) cheaply in the third over. Incoming batter and captain Temba Bavuma (8) and Aiden Markram (15) failed to make a difference with the bat as they were sent packing without troubling the scoresheet much. Senior wicket-keeper batter de Kock, however, continued to hold the fort for the hosts as he went through his innings cautiously and was further helped with a fine knock from van der Dussen.
The duo forged a 144-run partnership for the fourth wicket to pile on pressure on the Indian bowlers as South Africa recovered from 70/3 to 214/4. De Kock hit 12 boundaries and two sixes in his 130-ball knock while van der Dussen smashed four boundaries and one six in his innings of 59 balls before being dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal.
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However, following his dismissal, David Millar (39 off 38 balls) maintained the tempo for his side but failed to covert his start. His finely paced innings was laced with three boundaries and one hit over the top while Dwaine Pretorius chipped in with a cameo of 20 runs.
India started well to limit South Africa to 70/3 at the beginning of the match. However, de Kock and van der Dussen, combined well to change the tide of the match in their own favour as they looked well in contention to score over 300 runs in the final ODI.
But Chahal soon removed the in-form van der Dussen while fast bowler Prasidh Krishna ran through the lower-order to dismiss Miller, Pretorius and Sisanda Magala. India’s fast-bowling chief Jasprit Bumrah, meanwhile, got rid of Keshav Maharaj (6) to unsettle the South Africa lower-order and bundle them out in 49.5 overs.
Krishna was the pick of the bowlers for India as he returned with figures of 3/59 while Bumrah and Deepak Chahar picked up two wickets each.
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