South Africa Beat India in T20 series,2015

South Africa was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 International Series in India in 2015. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series. The 3rd T 20 international match was to be played on Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India on 8TH Oct, 2015.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd T 20 international Match: Jean Paul Duminy, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers (wk), David Miller, Imran Tahir, Faf du Plessis (c), Marchant de Lange, Farhaan Behardien, Chris Morris, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada

And Indian team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd T 20 international Match: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sreenath Aravind, Ambati Rayudu, Mohit Sharma, Axar Patel.

Rain played spoil sport and officiating players and authorities were not able to start the match at scheduled time and even they were not able to start the match later with less over’s as in T 20 matches the minimum over’s cannot be less than 5 and the officiating umpires and authorities does not want to risk the situation of players and fielders of both India and South Africa as wet field and Outfield may cause injury to any player. This 3^rd One day International was like dead rubber as South Africa already won the 1^st T 20 International matches and have already won the series. India can now try to play well in the One Day International series in which 5 One Day International Matches to be played.

J P Duminy of South Africa was awarded the Man of the Series award for his great and consistent batting, bowling and fielding in both 1^st and 2^nd T 20 international match and he makes difference for S A in batting.

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