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Toss

India Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

South Africa Women won the 3-match series 2-1

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Season

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23 March 2021 - night match (20-over match)

Women T20 debut

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Scorer: Vairavan | Commentator: Varun Shetty

END OF OVER:
11 | 13 Runs | IND-W: 114/1 | RR: 10.36

  • Smriti Mandhana48 (28b)
  • Harleen Deol4 (8b)
  • Nadine de Klerk3-0-32-0
  • Tumi Sekhukhune3-0-20-0

9.42pm Luus sprints across to her team-mates and they pose before they get to take a second trophy home. This has been a big, big tour for South Africa - they've gone well against the odds and been clinical to take five wins out of seven limited-overs games. Plenty to write home about, and a nice little base of youngsters to propel them forward. We thank you for joining us tonight. Watch out for the post-match pieces coming. Good night!

Sune Luus: I think it was a brilliant series for us in India, to take two series wins home, so it's still a special one for us regardless of the result today. There's a lot of positives, a lot of youngsters have put up their hands. Our coaches and management can be extremely proud. It's important for them to get opportunities, we're not always going to have our big stars. When Shafali plays like today, it's very difficult to stop her. She's going to be a legend in the game, I think. It's been a magical tour, everyone's very excited.

Smriti Mandhana: At the end coming out and being the winning captain...it was a good show overall. Shafali stole the show, but this victory goes to the bowlers. I think the second match we did pretty well and 80% of the time we were in winning positions. The toss is important but I don't think we can use that as an excuse. Somewhere we lacked in the first two matches but we came back, really proud of the girls. After losing the series in the second match, it needs a lot of motivation to come back in the third match. But Raman sir said this is still an international match, so we came back with a positive mind.

Shafali Verma: (translated) I practice hitting the long sixes. I learn from every series and go home to work on it. From the moment I put my hands on a bat, I only wanted to hit the ball hard. Unless I hit a few, I don't feel confident, so that's the way I go about it.

Shafali Verma is the Player of the Series.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad:(translated from Hindi) Didn't try anything new, just wanted to bowl as many dot balls as possible and that was the singular focus. Just wanted to keep it tight to the stumps and they fell to that. We've worked really hard without getting the results, but we'll keep at it and hope.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad is the Player of the Match.

9.20pm India have been at the receiving end through much of the time South Africa have been in town, but they finish on a massive high. Completely obliterated South Africa tonight, with relentlessly tight bowling and then a blitzkrieg with the bat. Shafali Verma started the chase with 18 runs off the first over and that signaled the end for South Africa. At no point did they come close to troubling India after that. Mandhana hitting her free-flowing, elegant self too at the other end, staying unbeaten on a 28-ball 48 that gives India a nine-wicket win with nine overs to spare.

10.6
4
de Klerk to Mandhana, FOUR, finishes off with a boundary! Mandhana's second streak of three consecutive boundaries tonight. A short one at middle stump and she pulls it well in front of deep square to seal the win for her team
10.5
4
de Klerk to Mandhana, FOUR, chopped past short third. Short of a length and at off stump, enough time to open the face and put this away with authority
10.4
4
de Klerk to Mandhana, FOUR, carved over the infield. Full at the stumps, backs away to open up the off side where all the square fielders are in. And she clears them

Highest % of runs coming through boundaries in a Women's T20I innings: (Min: 50 runs)
97.14 - Sophie Devine (68/70) vs IND, 2015 96.67 - Shafali Verma (58/60) vs SA, Today

10.3
1
de Klerk to Deol, 1 run, full outside off, driven to extra cover's left

JIMIT RAJA: "Look at the two worms for the two innings! No intersection whatsoever! Says a lot about how clinical India have been!"

10.2
0
de Klerk to Deol, no run, length at off stump, leans in for the drive, too early into it. Rolls into the stumps at the other end
10.1
0
de Klerk to Deol, no run, full at middle stump, flicked to midwicket