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Innings South Africa 99 (Klaasen 34, Kuldeep 4-18, Washington 2-15) vs India South Africa were bowled out for their lowest ODI total against India and fourth-lowest in the format in the deciding match of the series in Delhi. On a pitch that was talked up as being more seamer-friendly than …

Big picture With a prize as big as a T20 World Cup on offer in little more than a month’s time, and teams including the hosts of this three-match ODI series having their eye firmly set on the marquee event, it would be easy to dismiss the decider as not …

Toss South Africa chose to bat vs India India will chase for the second successive match, this time at the request of stand-in South African captain Keshav Maharaj. Regular skipper Temba Bavuma, as well as left-arm wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi, were both ruled out of action with what Cricket South Africa …

Big picture A narrow win in Lucknow gave South Africa ten points and lifted their World Cup Super League tally to 59, but they are still 11th, and a long way behind eighth-placed West Indies, who have 88 points. Given that they have forfeited 30 points by pulling out of …

Innings South Africa 249 for 4 (Miller 75*, Klaasen 74*, de Kock 48, Thakur 2-35) vs India An unbroken fifth-wicket partnership of 139 runs between Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller helped South Africa overcome a stilted start to post a competitive total in the rain-reduced first ODI against India in …

Big picture The good news is that this series is not without context. South Africa will be playing for World Cup Super League points. And they are desperate to get them. The better news – for them – is that they are doing it against a second-string Indian side that …

India won the toss and chose to bowl vs South Africa India won the toss and opted to bowl on a small Holkar Stadium ground, in the third and final T20I against South Africa in Indore. Captain Rohit Sharma didn’t expect the pitch “to change a lot”, and announced three …

From the far east in Guwahati, the caravan rolls to dead center in Indore. It’s a city that loves its cricket so much so that they packed the stands just to be able to watch Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh roll the clock back at a net session during the …

India 237 for 3 (Suryakumar 61, Rahul 57, Kohli 49*, Maharaj 2-23) beat South Africa 221 for 3 (Miller 106*, de Kock 69*, Arshdeep 2-62) by 16 runs If the first T20I in Thiruvananthapuram was a tantalising contest between bat and ball, the second T20I in Guwahati turned out to …

Big picture With two-thirds of this series still to be played, it’s fair to assume that this is the sentiment prevailing among most of India’s cricket-consuming public. You can’t blame them, because a: it’s Jasprit Bumrah, b: there’s a World Cup around the corner, and c: information about his injury …