JItesh Sharma gets struck wicket in the 3rd India vs South Africa T20I.© Twitter
The Indian cricket group batters came out all weapons blazing in the 3rd and last T20I versus South Africa in Johannesburg on Sunday. With South Africa winning the 2nd T20I and the very first T20I being gotten rid of, the match was a do-or-die one for the Suryakumar Yadav-led side. And they had fun with an assaulting intent. Captain Suryakumar Yadav struck a splendid 100 off simply 56 balls as India published 201 for 7. Suryakumar struck 7 fours and 8 6s for his 100– his 4th T20I century– after India were welcomed to bat.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal made 60 off 41 balls. For South Africa, spinner Keshav Maharaj and pacer Lizaad Williams took 2 wickets each while Tabraiz Shamsi got one.The match likewise experienced an unusual event in the last over. On the penultimate ball of the innings, India’s Jitesh Sharma struck a border off Lizaad Williams however, nevertheless, to everybody’s surprise was offered as he had actually stepped on to the stumps to be struck wickets.
India’s explosive batter Suryakumar Yadav has actually extended his lead at the top of the ICC T20I batter rankings following his quick-fire half-century versus South Africa in the 2nd T20I clash.
The right-handed batter smashed 56 in simply 36 balls in a losing cause as the ‘Men in Blue’ fell short in the interesting clash in Gqeberha on Tuesday.
According to the most recent rankings launched by ICC on Wednesday, the assaulting batter got an overall of 10 ranking points which has actually even more increased his lead as the No. 1 ranked batter in the fastest format of cricket.
His most current exploits took his overall to 865 score points, which takes him method ahead of his closest competitors in Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan (787 score points) and South Africa’s Aiden Markram (758 ).
Surya ended up being the leading T20I batter throughout the last edition of the T20 World Cup in Australia in 2022.
His present type recommends that the India batter is most likely to hold that position as the T20 World Cup 2024 inches better in the West Indies and the USA.
Child Tilak Varma moved 10 areas to 55th rank and Rinku Singh likewise advanced to 46 locations to 59th.
The newly-crowned No. 1 T20I bowler Ravi Bishnoi who missed out on choice for the trip of South Africa has actually led the way for Afghanistan ace spinner Rashid Khan to sign up with India child at the top of the rankings for T20I bowlers.
The Proteas spinner Tabraiz Shamsi has actually likewise made some attractive ground by going up 2 locations to 10th following an affordable spell of 1/18 in the last match.
India’s Chinaman spinner Kuldeep Yadav increased 5 locations to 32nd location.
Amongst all-rounders, Ravindra Jadeja is at the top in T20I rankings, while Markram enhanced 2 locations to be in the 2nd area.
Concerning the current Test rankings, there was some motion following the conclusion of the two-match Test series in between Bangladesh and New Zealand that completed connected at 1-1.
All-rounder Glenn Phillips won the Player of the Match in the 2nd Test and moved from outside the leading 100 to 55th in rankings for batters and enhanced 42 locations to 24th on the list for all-rounders.
His fellow colleague Ajaz Patel leapt 7 locations to 33rd on the list for Test bowlers, while Bangladesh duo Mehidy Hasan (up 2 areas to 21st) and Nayeem Hasan (up 5 locations to 44th) likewise made great ground on top-ranked bowler Ravichandran Ashwin.
With ANI and PTI inputs
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