India vs South Africa Live Rating, fifth T20I Match Updates (India National Cricket Team vs South Africa National Cricket Team): Hello, and a really warm welcome to our live coverage of the ultimate T20I between India and South Africa because the two teams run out of time to search out their best combination ahead of the World Cup.
A fog-out within the last match in Lucknow meant that we couldn’t see whether India would take any hard steps to make things work despite the awful batting type of the captain, Suryakumar Yadav, and vice-captain, Shubman Gill. Nor could we see if South Africa would tweak things around to avoid the batting collapses, that are getting too frequent to not be regarded as red flags, with two months to go to the World Cup.
This fifth match, where India could now not lose the series, might tell us lots more concerning the two teams’ considering and methods than the previous 4 matches combined.
Toss: South Africa opted to field first
Playing 11s:
South Africa: Quinton de Kock (w), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (c), Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Donovan Ferreira, George Linde, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Lungi Ngidi, Ottneil Baartman.
India: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma (w), Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh.