South Africa beat New Zealand in 3rd ODI played in 2017 Series

South Africa was scheduled to play a 5 match one day International series in New Zealand in 2017. The 3rd One day international match was played on Westpac Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand. South Africa leading the tour as they already won the only T 20 against New Zealand and also beat them in the 1st One day International match as well. Last one day international match was won by New Zealand so they have leveled the series 1-1 with 3 more games to decide the winner.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd One day international match: Tim Southee, Luke Ronchi (wk), Kane Williamson (c), Colin de Grand homme, Colin Munro, Trent Boult, Corey Anderson, Mitchell Santner, Ben Wheeler, Glenn Phillips, R Taylor

And South Africa team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd One day international Match: Jean Paul Duminy, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Wayne Parnell, Imran Tahir, Faf du Plessis (c), Farhaan Behardien, Chris Morris, Quinton de Kock (wk), Andile Phehlukwayo, Dane Paterson

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 271 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of AB de Villiers who made 85 runs in 80 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 106 runs in 100 balls and Faf du Plessis who made 36 runs in 46 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed to score 272 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

New Zealand batted well but was unable to chase the target of 272 runs and was only able to make 112 runs in 32.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 159 runs and with top contributions from Colin de Grand homme who made 34 runs in 34 balls with 2 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 159 runs and series stands at 2-1 in favor of South Africa with 2 more games to play.

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