The T20I series is poised at 1-1 and both teams will look to get their best game out to clinch the series at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg
South Africa will lock horns with West Indies in the 3rd and final T20I of the series on the 28th of March at The Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. This will be the series decided as the series is poised at 1-1, it has been a series which has produced a lot of runs. The 1st game was won my West Indies in a rain-affected game when they chased down the target quite comfortably. In the 2nd T20I, we witnessed history being made, South Africa won the toss and invited West Indies to have a bat. Though the visitors lost Brandon King, Kyle Mayers and Johnson Charles hammered the bowlers to all parts of the ground, adding a mammoth 135 runs for the second wicket. Charles was the aggressor while Mayers followed suit after a few overs. Charles scored 118 runs off 46 balls, including 10 fours and 11 maximums and helped West Indies set a mammoth target of 25/5 in their allotted overs.
In reply, Quinton de Kock and Reeza Hendricks came out all guns blazing and attacked from teh get-go putting immense pressure on the West Indian bowlers. South Africa went past 100 runs well inside the powerplay, De Kock notched up the fastest fifty for a South African and continued his merry way to smash a brilliant century. He was dismissed after getting to a 100 off 44 balls. QDK added 152 runs for the opening wicket alongside Reeza Hendricks. Then Aiden Markram (38* off 21) and Heinrich Klaasen (16* off 7) took the responsibility and took South Africa over the line with one over to spare.
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This series will be telecasted on the Star Sports network. The toss will take place at 9:00 PM IST and the Match will start at 9:30 PM IST on Sunday, the 27th of March.
South Africa Probable XI: AK Markram (C), Q de Kock, HE van der Dussen, T Stubbs, DA Miller,M Jansen, K Rabada, BC Fortuin, L Ngidi, T Shamsi
West Indies Probable XI: Rovman Powell, Shamarh Brooks, Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Jason Holder, Shai Hope(C), Nicholas Pooran, Alzarri Joseph, Odean Smith, AJ Hosein, Obed McCoy.
South Africa: Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Quinton de Kock (wk), Tristan Stubbs (wk), Kagiso Rabada, David Miller, Anrich Nortje, Sisanda Magala, Wayne Parnell, Lungi Ngidi, Rilee Rossouw, Marco Jansen, Tabraiz Shamsi, Bjorn Fortuin
West Indies: Rovman Powell (c), Yannic Cariah, Johnson Charles (wk), Kyle Mayers (vc), Jason Holder, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Alzarri Joseph, Akeal Hosein, Sheldon Cottrell, Brandon King, Shamarh Brooks, Obed McCoy, Raymon Reifer, Odean Smith, Romario Shepherd
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