India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Rain threat hanging over decisive match
- 16 Mins ago What the 'other' Indian team is doing
- 26 Mins ago The weather in Jo'burg
- 38 Mins ago Tilak Varma asks for No.3 and makes the most of it
- 46 Mins ago Tilak Varma climbs the century mountain
- 58 Mins ago Abhishek Sharma finds his groove again
- 8 Mins ago Marco Jansen's Centurion blinder
- 13 Mins ago Marco Jansen's rich vein of form
- 22 Mins agoHeinrich Klaasen's frustration…
- 35 Mins ago South Africa's misery in T20Is
- 53 Mins ago 2024, India's best-ever year in T20Is?
- 4 Mins ago South Africa Squad
- 14 Mins ago India full squad
- 22 Mins ago Hello and welcome!
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Plenty will be put on the line at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, as India look to put an emphatic question mark by sealing an away series win in South Africa, while the hosts look to level the series after a back-and-forth rollercoaster so far in the three matches. India took a 2-1 lead as a power-packed display with over 400 total runs saw the visitors keep their noses ahead with an 11-run victory at Centurion, charged by Tilak Varma’s fantastic century and a clinical bowling performance....Read More
India will know they can’t lose this series, and they will be hungry to seal a win with another impressive T20 performance at the Wanderers, might also take the opportunity to blood some of the youth in the ranks. Ramandeep Singh received his maiden cap in the previous game, and debuts could also be on hand for Yash Dayal and Vijaykumar Vyshak. Even Jitesh Sharma might see some game time, with India’s middle order struggling to fire a little bit in the series so far, and offering playing time to the entire travelling contingent in South Africa.
India’s top order has been in top form throughout the series, with Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma both scoring centuries and Abhishek Sharma contributing fast starts including a 50 in the previous game. However, Samson’s back-to-back ducks will be an element of concern, as will the form of Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya behind them.
The skipper has only managed 26 runs in the three matches so far, while Pandya has found it slow going for his own 59 in this series so far. Rinku Singh, in limited play time, has also failed to have too much of an impact, and India will be hoping their middle order can get into a groove in the final match of the series.
Nothing has really clicked for South Africa on the batting front, as they continue to struggle against the spin triad of Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, and Axar Patel. While South Africa’s middle order of Tristan Stubbs and Heinrich Klaasen have fired with big hits in spurts, the runs haven’t been easy to come by for the Proteas. In particular, David Miller has struggled massive against the turning ball, and while Johannesburg usually plays better for batters, India know they have a trump card to pull against the dangerous South African batting lineup.
In the bowling department, South Africa will need to be slightly more proactive in ensuring India don’t get off to fast starts. They have the template from the second T20I, played in Gqeberha, to see how India can be contained in the powerplay overs and beyond. Marco Jansen has done a great job of leading the line for the hosts, improving in both the powerplay and in the death overs as his T20 stocks continue to rise. However, he will need more support from the rest of the relatively-inexperienced group of pacers that South Africa are using.
Concerningly for South Africa, Jansen has not only been their best bowler, but also their highest-scorer, boosted by a flurry of late hitting in a losing cause at Centurion. India’s pacers have bled runs in the depth, first to Tristan Stubbs and Gerald Coetzee as South Africa won in Gqeberha, and following that to Jansen’s power-hitting onslaught at Centurion.
This is India’s final T20I match of an extremely successful year, where they have won all but two of their 25 matches played in the format so far, including an incredible unbeaten run at the T20 World Cup where they beat South Africa to lift the title. For Suryakumar Yadav and co., ending the year on a strong note will be at the front of the mind, while for their hosts led by Aiden Markram, bouncing back and ensuring they don’t lose the series at home should provide plenty of fire in a decisive final match.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: The last time India played in Johannesburg
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Suryakumar Yadav smashed 100 in 56 balls and led India to a score of 201/7 on December 14, 2023; the last time India played at the Wanderers. Big scores are a norm here but then South Africa didn't get anything close to something that can be called that. Kuldeep Yadav returned figures of 5/17 and South Africa were all out for a paltry 95 runs.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: India's 200 mania
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: India have officially shed their cautious approach this year in T20Is. This is evidenced by the fact that they have breached the 200 mark eight times - the most by any team in a single year.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: What the 'other' Indian team is doing
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Well as you may know, the Indian Test team are playing a hush-hush practice game behind black curtains in Perth ahead of the first Test against Australia in the big Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Their batters were under scanner after the New Zealand Test series debacle and well, it isn't a pretty picture so far.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: The weather in Jo'burg
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: There is a threat of rain hanging over this match. It has been raining on and off in the city and there were some showers in the morning as well. More showers are forecast for the evening and so all we can do is hope for the best.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Tilak Varma asks for No.3 and makes the most of it
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Captain Suryakumar Yadav said that Tilak had asked to be promoted to No.3 after the second T20I in Gqeberha. He said that he finally told Tilak that he would be batting there on Tuesday night. "You are going to bat at No. 3... Express yourself," he said.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Tilak Varma climbs the century mountain
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: The story of the third T20I for India was that of Tilak Varma. He missed the Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka tours because of injury. He then didn't get a call up for the Bangladesh T20Is and it had looked like he had fallen off the radar, which is just how fickle your place can be in the Indian team if you are a youngster. Then he was suddenly called up for the South Africa tour and for the third T20I, he was promoted to No.3. He repaid that faith by smashing 107 off 56 balls, thus becoming the youngest Indian to score a T20I century.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Abhishek Sharma finds his groove again
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Abhishek Sharma had been under some pressure going into the third T20I, having put together a string of low scores after he burst onto the scene with a century in the second match of his career. However, it all came together once again for him at Centurion as he powered a 107-run stand off just 52 balls with Tilak Varma for the second wicket. Abishek smashed a 25-ball 50 which pretty much set the tone for India to go on to make 219.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Marco Jansen's Centurion blinder
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: It looked like India had won the third T20I fair and square when Arshdeepm Singh dismissed Heinrich Klaasen in the 18th over. And then came an assault of awesome proportions by Jansen. He went 4, 6, 4, 2, 6, 4 in the penultimate over of the innings and then hit another six second ball of the last to reach his half-century in 16 balls.
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India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Marco Jansen's rich vein of form
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Marco Jansen has been the biggest threat for India throughout the series with the ball and, in the case of the third T20I, with the bat. He has picked only three wickets in the three T20Is but his economy of 6.41 is the best for any bowler in the series, something that has often helped others pick wickets thanks to the pressure he built. This is despite India scoring more than 200 in two of the three games. Moreover, he almost pulled off a heist in Centurion that took his tally to 73 runs at a strike rate of 208.57 for the series, making him South Africa's lead scorer.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Heinrich Klaasen's frustration…
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: South Africa have been a wounded side for a while now, not just because of their disappointments in the T20 World Cup this year. International cricket has been shrinking for them and this ongoing series as well ends with just four T20Is on a Friday. Heinrich Klaasen didn't mince words when talking about the situation.
“We don't play any more five-match series. Our Test team are playing two-Test series, which is ridiculous. How nice would it be if we win on Friday, and Sunday is another game that we're going into at two-all?”
Klaasen said that South Africa would like to play more cricket and longer series against other international sides. “It's disappointing and it doesn't sit well with the players because we want to play more cricket against these guys and other countries. But we always find a way to just play two or three games and it's annoying. Then you see India are playing on Friday in two different sides of the world,” he said.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: South Africa's misery in T20Is
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: South Africa were unbeaten in the T20 World Cup until they met India in the final. However, they have been shambolic either side of that tournament. They can't win this series and even if they draw it, South Africa's winless run in the format from a series perspective will stretch to eight.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: 2024, India's best-ever year in T20Is?
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: India haven't just won the T20 World Cup this year. They have backed it up by winning everything before it and since. This series against South Africa is their fifth bilateral series this year, their sixth competition in T20s overall. They have won all of those series and the T20 World Cup to boot before this and a victory will make it five consecutive bilateral T20I series wins in a row for them. They will also go an entire year without losing a single series or tournament in the tournament, with there being no more T20 series scheduled for the remaining few days of 2024. India have overall won 23 of their 25 T20Is.
By winning the third T20I, they have already made this the 10th consecutive series, bilateral or otherwise, that they have gone unbeaten. Their last series defeat came against the West Indies in August last year.
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: South Africa Squad
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Ryan Rickelton, Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram(c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen(w), David Miller, Marco Jansen, Gerald Coetzee, Andile Simelane, Keshav Maharaj, Lutho Sipamla, Nqabayomzi Peter, Patrick Kruger, Mihlali Mpongwana, Donovan Ferreira, Ottneil Baartman
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: India full squad
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Avesh Khan, Jitesh Sharma, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Dayal
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: Hello and welcome!
India vs South Africa LIVE Score, 4th T20I: India cannot lose this series now that they have a 2-1 lead, South Africa are looking to avoid defeat but it is impossible for them to win as well. That is where things stand ahead of this final T20I of what has been a rivetting series at the Wanderers. Stay tuned for more updates!
