India vs South Africa’s third ODI match was billed as a highly competitive match between two strong teams. With the series level at 1-1, both sets of fans would have hoped for a close contest between the two sides. However, it was anything but.
Having won the toss, India chose to bowl first at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Indian went into the game with no changes in the bowling lineup and looked quite confident about halting the visiting team to a low score.
No one however had anticipated the kind of performance that the Indian bowling lineup brought about. The Men in Blue bowled the South African team at just 99 in 27.1 overs subjecting the visiting team to their fourth-lowest ODI score.
The Indian team were on top from the word get-go as they troubled the South African opening pair of Janneman Malan and Quinton de Kock from the first ball itself. Washington Sunder, playing in just his second match after injury, broke the deadlock with a wicket of De Kock in the third over. The southpaw’s wicket opened the floodgates and the South African team could not stop the fall of wickets from then on.
Having tasted blood once, the Indian bowling lineup increased the intensity even further and the South African batter could not do anything and crumble under the Indian pressure.
Heinrich Klassen was South Africa’s best batter as he made 34 off of 42 and held the fort from one end. The other end however kept giving way to the Indian surcharge with the spin trio of Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar and Shahbaz Ahmed cleaning up batters one after the other.
Yadav took four and two were clinched by Sundar and Ahmed each felling the South African team to a score of just 99/10. Twitter was understandably buzzing after India’s dominating performance against South Africa in the third ODI match.
Let’s look at how Twitter reacted to India’s dominance against South Africa:
South Africa came looking for direct qualification for the world cup and revived memories of 99 all out.
Kuldeep Yadav with a 4-fer another memory revived.
Well done boys.#INDvsSA #IndvsSAodi pic.twitter.com/gHO8p4bzSx
— Avinash (@imavinashvk) October 11, 2022
All done and dusted! #TeamIndia need exactly a 1?0?0? runs to win ?#INDvSA | #Cricket
— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) October 11, 2022
1?0?0? runs stand between #TeamIndia & a series victory! ??#OneFamily #INDvSA
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) October 11, 2022
Kuldeep yavad’s form and year 2022 just keep getting better. Good for Indian cricket. #INDvsSA
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) October 11, 2022
Be it playing 2 spinners on a green mamba in Trivandrum , one spinner in Guwahati and electing to bat first in ranchi where it’s expected to get better and better in the night , tactically the proteas lost this and a proud record which they held for 12 years. https://t.co/7SW1LyTyJX
— Prasanna (@prasannalara) October 11, 2022
?? TOP NOTCH! Washington Sundar was the nemesis of the southpaws today.
?? He picked up the key wickets of QDK & Miller.
? Getty • #WashingtonSundar #INDvSA #INDvsSA #SAvIND #TeamIndia #BharatArmy pic.twitter.com/HCgk2q04yP
— The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy) October 11, 2022
Today's South Africa Team : ??#IndvsSAodi #kuldeepyadav #ShikharDhawan pic.twitter.com/m8MEamxibq
— Sourav Saraswat (@Sourav058) October 11, 2022
Aaj toh Dilli ke Rajdhani express se bhi tez wickets giri hai ??
How do you rate Kuldeep's performance in this match? ?#OneFamily #INDvSA @BCCI @imkuldeep18 pic.twitter.com/UtwpqTqaRn
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) October 11, 2022
Kuldeep – 4??/1??8??
Washi – 2??/1??5??
Siraj – 2??/1??7??
Shahbaz – 2??/3??2??A flawless performance from the #TeamIndia bowlers ensures that ?? are bowled out for 99!#INDvSA | ?: BCCI pic.twitter.com/yl8W6RUdG3
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) October 11, 2022
