India endured another ordinary day in the field as South Africa outplayed the home team by 49 runs to prevent a clean sweep of the series in the third and final T20I at the Holkar Stadium here on October 4.
The conditions admittedly favoured the batters, with short boundaries and a dream of a pitch making it ideal for the willow wielders to hammer away. But India, without doubt, could have bowled a bit better and definitely fielded much better in what was its last T20I outing before the World Cup begins in Australia later this month.
Asked to bat first, superlative efforts from Quinton de Kock (68, 43b, 6x4, 4x6) and Rilee Rossouw (100 n.o., 48b, 7x4, 8x6) – even as skipper Temba Bavuma failed again (3, 8b) – ensured that the visitors made a mammoth 227.
