Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

Q de Kock
Q de Kock
103(118) 11x4 - 1x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 23 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
2 1 5 12 12 24 10 37
V Kohli
V Kohli
77(99) 5x4 - 0x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 15 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
4 12 13 4 13 6 10 15

Best performances - Bowlers

M Morkel
M Morkel
O10
M1
R39
W4
Eco3.90
RHB
OFFLEG
1W2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
MM Sharma
MM Sharma
O9
M0
R62
W2
Eco6.88
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

South Africa , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

South Africa led the 5-match series 2-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

13.30 start, First Session 13.30-17.00, Interval 17.00-17.45, Second Session 17.45-21.15

Match days

18 October 2015 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Commentator: Nikhil Kalro

END OF OVER:
50 | 13 Runs | IND: 252/6 (19 runs required, RR: 5.04)

  • Axar Patel15 (11b)
  • Harbhajan Singh20 (17b)
  • Dale Steyn10-0-65-0
  • Kagiso Rabada10-0-39-0

9.30pm So, South Africa back up the Springboks' fantastic comeback win yesterday with one of their own. AB de Villiers does a Fourie du Preez, great leadership. A thoroughly dominant bowling performance in those last 20 overs. India were favourites for most of that chase and played really well to get into that position but were squeezed like a wet rag in those last few overs. They employed a terrific gameplan of going short and full on middle and leg with a 4-5 field and that did not look like it was working but they soon got those lengths perfect. Dhoni and Kohli were in control of that chase but this plan threw them off their game, as they were stalled. The middle order struggled to find any momentum after both of them fell and Morne Morkel was superb. Three consecutive games won by matches lost in the chase, all of which should have been won by the batting side but well, the quality of bowling has been different from a few months ago. Two sterling performances in today's game with both bat and ball for SA.

Morne Morkel is the Man of the Match: Really worked hard this week on mixing it up a bit. I'm a rhythm bowler and need things to click to operate. We had a couple of gameplans and it is important to execute and we did that. I suppose you live by the sword, you die with the sword, he is a big hitter down the ground and had to vary it. Every time I do well, especially against India is very special. And it will last with me forever.

MS Dhoni: I thought 270 was a par score, the wicket kept getting lower and slower and the dew didn't help us out. It became a bit two-paced and become difficult to play the big shot. We are looking for batsmen to play at 5, 6 and 7. Till they play there, we won;t know who is a good bet over there. And we are looking to give chances as well so it's a tricky one. Jinx batted well at 3 but Virat couldn't score, this is something we will have to look at. I thought our bowlers did well, maybe a bit more dew would have made it difficult. They batted when the wicket was at its best and they also couldn't find runs at the death.

AB de Villiers: Very special batting performance. Quinton answered a alot of questions just like how Quinton can do. We struggled between the 37th and 44th over but found our way at the end. To have Miller up front was out of the box thinking from us. We were looking at 250 as a par, the way we fought back with the ball was special.

49.6
6
Steyn to Patel, SIX, final one goes out of the ground. What a shot that is too. Good length on middle and Axar plays this straight over Steyn's head with a straight elbow. SA complete an amazing turnaround win to go 2-1 up in the series.
49.5
1
Steyn to Harbhajan Singh, 1 run, full on off, driven to mid-off. Harbhajan ambles to the other end and AB throws at the non-strikers end but misses.
49.4
2
Steyn to Harbhajan Singh, 2 runs, low full toss, heaved away to deep square leg for two
49.3
1
Steyn to Patel, 1 run, what fielding. Deserved a wicket for that piece of fielding. Short on off, flat-batted to Miller at mid-off who dives to his right and makes an amazing stop. He then gets up and fires a throw to the non-striker's end and a direct hit would have had him.
49.2
1
Steyn to Harbhajan Singh, 1 run, good length, pulled to fine leg
49.1
2
Steyn to Harbhajan Singh, 2 runs, Morkel makes a mess of another catch. Never looked like getting under that. Full outside off which is lobbed up in the air towards short third man. Morkel backtracks and advances and eventually the ball drops

South Africa tour of India 2015-16 News

Will it cost them?

3.60

India's scoring rate between over No. 30 and 39. They played 35 dots in those ten overs.

Dhoni at 4

11

No. of fifty-plus scores by Dhoni batting at No. 4 in ODIs in just 20 inns. He averages 68.4 from this position.

Dhawan's nemesis

4

No. of times Dhawan has been dismissed by Morkel in ODIs, including thrice in this series - the most any bowler has dismissed him.

Losing the plot

65

Runs scored by SA in 11 overs after the 39th. They were 205 for 3 at that stage. Only three overs went for six or more runs.

SRT, and then de Kock

7

Least innings taken by a batsman to 4 ODI hundreds against a team. Tendulkar against Kenya, de Kock against India.

Fastest against India

7

Number of ODIs it took de Kock to make 500 runs versus India - the least by any batsman. Gary Kirsten, the previous fastest, had taken 8.

After Kirsten

2000

The last time a SA batsman made 3 50+ scores in a bilateral ODI series in India before Du Plessis: Gary Kirsten got 1 hundred and 2 fifties.

Favourite opposition

4

No. fifty-plus scores by de Kock against India out of his 12 in ODIs. He had averaged 68.66 before this game against them.

Dhoni behind the sticks

137

Stumpings in international cricket by MS Dhoni. Only Sangakkara (139) has more.

Amla at No. 3

2008

The last time Amla batted at No. 3 for SA in ODIs - in his first-two matches. He had made 25 runs at No. 3 before this match.