India vs. South Africa, 4th ODI: South Africa won by 5-wicket

Team Udayavani, Feb 11, 2018, 10:37 AM IST

Johannesburg: South Africa by 6 wickets against in the fourth ODI on Sunday to enroll its first win in the six-match ODI series. The South Africa has never lost a match in the pink jersey and they kept that record in place and diminish India’s series lead to 3-1.

Heinrich Klaasen’s unbeaten 43 of every 27 balls helped the Proteas pursue down the changed target of 202 of every 28 over in the rain reduced match at Johannesburg. South Africa was 43 for 1 of every 7.2 over when the match was halted for the second time because of lightning after which rain delayed the start of procedures further.

India went out for a all out attack on South Africa after the split getting three wickets for 59 keeps running before Klaasen began to counter attack alongside David Miller (39 off 28 balls). Klaasen and Miller’s 72-run remain for the fifth wicket took the game away from India. Ab de Villiers additionally played a cameo scoring 25 off 18 balls in his comeback match for the home side while Andile Phehlukwayo completed off the match with a six while remaining not out on 23 from 5 balls.

For India, Kuldeep Yadav was the pick of the bowlers as he completed with 2 wickets for 51 runs in 6 overs, while Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Yuzvendra Chahal got one wicket each. Prior, opener Shikhar Dhawan denoted his 100th One-Day International (ODI) with a splendid 109 to take India to 289/7 of every 50 overs after they selected to bat first at the Wanderers. Dhawan, who hit his thirteenth century, shared a 158-run second-wicket remain with chief Virat Kohli (75) as India indicated solid aim to secure the six-match series. India was cruising at 197/2 of every 34 overs when the match was interrupted for almost an hour because of lightning. After the match continued, India lost the plot and lost wickets consistently to what looked an under-par aggregate.

Kohli and Dhawan then steered India to a position of strength. Both matched strokes per strokes as they played sensibly, waiting for weak deliveries.

Kohli stamped his authority as he continued to punish the South African bowlers. For someone coming into the match with scores of 112, 46 not out, 160 not out, batting looked easy. He registered his 46th ODI fifty.

South Africa, playing with no spinners, watched out of thoughts to stop the two with no assortment in bowling. Part time Jean-Paul Duminy conveyed four overs of turn in any case, expectedly, didn’t look like taking a wicket. At the opposite end, left-hander Dhawan pulled, cut, and drove easily as the partnership prospered. The stand was broken when Kohli hit pacer Chris Morris straight under the control of David Miller at short cover, with India at 178/2 out of 31.1 overs.

Afterward, Dhawan went ahead to finish his century, with a straight drive off a full toss from Morris check the mid-off fence giving him the three-figure score.

India’s walk was ended by lightning and dark clouds over the New Wanderers Stadium.

At the point when the match continued, Dhawan was the first to be dismissed, driving Morne Morkel to AB De Villiers at mid-off. Ajinkya Rahane (8) excessively ended, with a draw off Lungi Ngidi failing to clear Rabada at profound square leg. With these two wickets, things all of a sudden looked bleak for India, who was at 210/4.

The rescuer of India was Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who remained not out 42 off 43 deliveries.