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RECASTS with ultimate consequence after South Africa innings

Suryakumar Yadav hit a blinding century as India levelled their sequence towards South Africa with a crushing 106-run win within the third and ultimate Twenty20 worldwide on the Wanderers Stadium on Thursday.

Suryakumar made 100 in a complete of 201 for seven after India have been despatched in to bat.

South Africa crashed to 95 all out with left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav taking a career-best 5 for 17 on his twenty ninth birthday.

“We wanted to play a fearless brand of cricket. That was one box we wanted to tick – to put runs on the board and then defend it,” stated Suryakumar on the post-match presentation when he was named participant of the match and participant of the sequence.

The Indian captain thrashed eight sixes and 7 fours in making his fourth T20 worldwide century off 55 balls. He was caught at deep sq. leg off the following ball as India misplaced three wickets, together with a run-out, within the ultimate over, bowled by Lizaad Williams.

Suryakumar was off the sector for a lot of the South African innings after twisting his left ankle whereas fielding within the third over.

Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja took over the captaincy and performed a big position in South Africa’s collapse by dismissing their captain Aiden Markram, for a hard-hit 25, together with his first ball.

“It’s not that bad. I’m walking, so it’s all good,” Suryakumar stated of the harm.

Mohammed Siraj set the tone for India’s bowling effort with an excellent maiden over to Reeza Hendricks, with three slips in place for the final two balls of the over.

But it was the spinners who did the most important injury, with Jadeja taking two for 25 and Kuldeep ripping by means of the decrease order, taking the final 4 wickets off seven balls.

The pitch had seemed glorious for batting when Suryakumar and Yashasvi Jaiswal (60) punished the bowling in a fourth-wicket stand of 112 off 70 balls however Jadeja and Kuldeep each gained flip and occasional low bounce.

“Credit to the (Indian) batters for making it look easy for them,” stated Markram.

Suryakumar went out to bat after left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj took two wickets off successive balls within the third over. He was comparatively subdued in taking 23 balls to make his first 25 runs however then unleashed his full array of strokes, together with hits for leg-side sixes off good size balls.

The groups begin a three-match one-day worldwide sequence on the identical venue on Sunday.