The third match of the T-20 series between India and South Africa will be played at Centurion today. The match will start at 8:30 PM at the SuperSport Park Stadium, with the toss at 8 PM. India will be playing a T-20 match here after 6 years, in 2018 the team lost to the home team.
The 4 T20 series is currently tied at 1-1. India won the first match by 61 runs and South Africa won the second match by 3 wickets. The last match of the series will be played in Johannesburg on November 15.
India dominates the head to head record So far 29 T-20s have been played between India and South Africa. India won 16 and South Africa won 12. The match between the two was also inconclusive. The final of the T-20 World Cup was also played between the two this year, in which India emerged victorious.
The last match between the two at Centurion was in 2018, when the home team won by 6 wickets. Both played 22 T20s in South Africa, with India winning 12 and the home team winning 9. One match was inconclusive.
Ramandeep can debut In the second T20, Team India's batting was seen to be weak. After 6 wickets fell, Arshdeep Singh had to come in to bat, who usually bats after 8 or 9 wickets fell. In such a situation, the team can include Ramandeep Singh in the playing-11 in place of the out-of-form Abhishek Sharma to increase the batting today. Ramandeep has not made his debut yet.
Chakraborty is the top wicket taker of the series Varun Chakraborty has taken 8 wickets in 2 matches for India. In the second match too, he took 5 wickets to win India. While Sanju Samson is the highest run-scorer of the series, he scored a century in the first match.
Stubbs won the second match for his team Tristan Stubbs scored 47 runs in the second match to win South Africa. He is the highest run scorer of the team. Gerald Coetzee is the team's highest wicket-taker, with 4 wickets to his name. He took 3 wickets in the first match. The team will not make any changes to its playing-11.
Weather conditions There is no chance of rain in Centurion on Wednesday. The temperature will be between 16 to 26 degrees Celsius. Even in the last 2 T20s there was no problem due to rain.
Pitch report 14 T-20s have been played in Centurion so far, with 7 wins by the teams batting first and 7 wins by the team bowling first. 258 runs is the best score here and the chase here has become easier in the last few years. Therefore, the team winning the toss may choose to bowl first.
Possible Playing-11 of both the teams India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma/Ramandeep Singh, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh and Awesh Khan.
South Africa: Aidan Markram (captain), Riza Hendricks, Ryan Rickleton, Tristan Stubbs, Henrik Klaasen (wicketkeeper), David Miller, Andile Simelen, Marco Janssen, Gerald Coetzee, Ann Peter and Keshav Maharaj.
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