South Africa Beat India in 3rd ODI Match in series,2015

South Africa was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY 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 ONE DAY international match was to be played on Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot, India on 18th Oct, 2015.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd ONE DAY international Match: Jean Paul Duminy, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers (C), David Miller, Imran Tahir, Faf du Plessis , Q De Kock (wk), Farhaan Behardien, Chris Morris, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada

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

South Africa batted very well and aggressively and was able to post total of 270 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of Wicket keeper batsman Q D Kock who made 103 runs in 118 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls and F D Plesis who made 60 runs in 63 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 95 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 271 runs in 50 over’s to win this match and take lead of 2-1 in this 5 match one Day international Series.

India started well and aggressively but lost its way in the middle and end over’s and was only able to make 252 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and top scored by R Sharma who made 65 runs in 74 balls with 7 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 113 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 18 runs and leads the series 2-1.

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