NEW DELHI —
Spinner
Kuldeep Yadav’s 4–18 shone during a superb Indian bowling attack that
clinched their one-day series against South Africa with a crushing seven-wicket
win on Tuesday.
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The hosts
skittled South Africa for 99 in 27.1 overs in the third-match decider, after
electing to bowl on a pitch dampened by days of rain in New Delhi.
Shubman Gill
made 49 as India chased down their target in 19.1 overs, winning the series 2–1
with a second-string side after
Rohit Sharma and team departed for the Twenty20
World Cup in Australia.
Kuldeep, a
left-arm wrist spinner, came into the attack with South Africa five down and
wiped off the tail, striking twice on successive balls before ending the innings
with the wicket of Marco Jansen.
Once a regular
in the Twenty20 side, Kuldeep was not picked for the World Cup starting October
16, but the 27-year-old said he was “not disappointed”.
“I am not
disappointed at all. I am concentrating on my process and looking to get better
with every match,” the man of the match told reporters.
“The players who
have been selected are the best and my best wishes are with them.”
Spinner
Washington Sundar, who bowled the first over and returned with two wickets,
helped set up the second straight win for the hosts.
Sundar was
handed the new ball and the lanky off-spinner struck in his second over to send
back Quinton de Kock, caught at short third man for six.
Pace bowler
Mohammed Siraj rattled the top order with the wickets of Janneman Malan, for
15, and Reeza Hendricks, for three, to put South Africa on the back foot.
‘Fatigued’ South
Africa
The Proteas slipped further to 43–4 after Aiden Markram’s departure as
the batsman fell caught behind off left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed for nine.
Heinrich
Klaasen, who top-scored with 34, attempted to rebuild with David Miller, who
was making his captaincy debut with regular skipper Temba Bavuma and Keshav
Maharaj both unwell.
But Sundar
bowled the left-handed Miller for seven and the rest of the batting quickly
caved in.
Shahbaz, who
made his ODI debut in the previous match, bowled Klaasen before — in between
the change of batsmen — a dog walked on the field, providing some light relief
to the crowd.
It was South
Africa’s fourth-lowest total in 50-over matches, after their 69 all out in
Sydney and then twice being bowled out for 83.
“In hindsight,
the kind of schedule that we have had ... we saw the benefits of that as the
Indian side, which we played against, were fresh. Our guys were maybe a little
bit fatigued,” South African coach Mark Boucher said.
“No excuses for
that though. It’s quite difficult because we don’t have the depth that India
has in their cricket. We are also under pressure to win every game in the
one-dayers to qualify (directly) for the World Cup.”
The defeat
leaves
South Africa on the brink of missing a direct qualification for next
year’s ODI World Cup in India.
They languish at
11th in the Super League table. Only the top eight teams (seven and hosts
India) earn direct qualification to the 2023 tournament.
India had little
trouble in reply, despite skipper
Shikhar Dhawan getting run out on eight and
Ishan Kishan falling for 10 off left-arm spinner Bjorn Fortuin.
Gill, who
started the chase with a string of boundaries, kept up the attack with
previous-match centurion Shreyas Iyer, who hit an unbeaten 28 and the winning
six.
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