India vs South Africa 3rd ODI: Arshdeep Sparks Early Breakthrough as Harshit Rana Endures Tough Luck
India vs South Africa 3rd ODI: Arshdeep gives India an early breakthrough as South Africa rebuilds; Harshit Rana remains unlucky despite good spells.
Arshdeep Singh gives India a strong start with an early wicket in the 3rd ODI against South Africa.
India started the third ODI against South Africa at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam, with a spectacular and thrilling moment, and the left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh very first over was an excellent over. He bowled out the opener Ryan Rickelton for a duck—his second of the innings—and created pressure right from the beginning of what turned out to be a nail-biting decider.
By the end of the 10th over South Africa had scored 54/1 with Quinton de Kock and Temba Bavuma putting together the innings after the loss of an early wicket. Harshit Rana was particularly unfortunate as he had beaten the bat a good number of times and also two boundaries were scored off thick outside edges of de Kock going for non-edges.
Captain KL Rahul, who was standing in for the regular captain, finally ended India’s string of 20 consecutive losses at the toss in ODIs and chose to bowl first. The Indian selectors made a daring decision by dropping Washington Sundar to accommodate Tilak Varma, while still backing Prasidh Krishna despite his costly spell last time out.
Injury problems forced South Africa to make a couple of changes in their playing XI When they turned to Ottneil Baartman and Ryan Rickelton. The South African side under the captaincy of Bavuma is going for the ODI series victory after total domination in the Tests, while the Indians have no choice but to win to escape losing the ODI series twice in a row.
The game is centered on players Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma who are about to attain significant milestones, and the young Indian pace bowlers who have the hard task of confronting the formidable South African batting lineup with their bowling.
