The Proteas started this five-match series with t20 cricket – koobit.com promise by convincingly winning in Delhi and Cuttack to take a 2-0 lead but familiar batting collapses reared their ugly heads in Vizag on Tuesday and in Rajkot on Friday.
They go into the final match of this series with India enjoying momentum after dominant back-to-back wins and they are favourites to wrap up the series on Sunday.
SA captain Temba Bavuma, who retired hurt in the fourth over, won the toss and elected to field first and India went on to put 169/6 on board that proved to be too much for SA who were bowled out for 87.
To make this win even more impressive for India, they won this match with two overs to spare and it also turned out that SA were bowled out for their lowest total in T20 matches.
This is also the biggest win by runs for India against SA in T20s.
In reaching their target 169, India were helped by a well-taken half century from Dinesh Karthik (55) who was assisted by all-rounder Hardik Pandya who smacked three boundaries and as many maximums for a well-taken 46.
Karthik and Pandya played a crucial role for India during the middle overs as they put together a magnificent partnership of 65 off 33 to drag India out of a spot of bother.
Ishan Kishan (27) and Rishabh Pant (17) also contributed but there was nothing much to write home about from the shifts of Ruturaj Gaikwad (5), Shreyas Iyer (4), Axar Patel (8) and Harshal Patel (1).
Lungi Ngidi, who was making his long-awaited return to the T20 side, was the pick of the SA bowlers with the scalps of Gaikwad and Pandya while Marco Jansen, Dwaine Pretorius, Anrich Nortjé and Keshav Maharaj ended with one each.
SA failed to recover from Bavuma’s early retirement due to injury with only Quinton de Kock (14), Rassie van der Dussen (20) and Marco Jansen (12) the notable scorers.
On a pitch where the ball kept low, the rest of the SA batters struggled and failed to reach double figures as they were rattled by Avesh Khan who ended with his best T20 figures of 4/18 on his father’s birthday.
Yuzvendra Chahal chipped in with two under his name while Harshal Patel and Axar Patel ended their shifts with one scalp apiece.
SA made three changes with Reeza Hendricks, Kagiso Rabada and Wayne Parnell replaced by Quinton de Kock, Marco Jansen and Lungi Ngidi but they failed to influence a positive result.
Want Tickets To The 2022 U.S. Open? Here’s What You Need To Know
If you’re looking to go to the U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, there are several options, some of them actually inexpensive.
It depends on what you want to see: the tournament itself, the practice rounds or both. And it depends on where on the golf course you want to watch.
On TicketSmarter.Com, you can get a weekly badge, which allows access to the tournament and practice rounds for the whole week. Ace Ticket is selling badges as well, as does Stub Hub.
2022 U.S. Open: Find tickets on TicketSmarterPractice rounds tickets are cheaper
TicketSmarter.Com is selling tickets to the practice rounds on June 13, 14 and 15 for as low as $73 or as high as $150 for each round.
Ace Tickets has similar prices in the hundreds for the practice rounds, depending where you are located in the gallery. Stub Hub has practice round tickets for as low as $53 or as high as $100.Tournament rounds
When it comes to the U.S Open tournament rounds, June 16-19, TicketSmarter has those priced at $414 to $799 and up per ticket, per round; Ace Ticket has them starting at $909, with the highest ticket being $39,795 for a 12-person cabana. Stub Hub has ticket prices as low as $395 or as high as $650 per person.How you can buy tickets
There are other websites where people can get tickets such as koobit.Com, usopen.Com, msgpromotions.Com, seatgeek.Com and even Craigslist.Com. An informal survey indicates tickets on Craigslist and sites like eBay are more expensive than those on Stub Hub, Ticketsmarter and Ace.
When it comes to parking passes, many of those cost about $50 and up, depending on proximity to the course.History of the U.S. Open
This year marks the 122nd U.S. Open, with the first one being held in 1895 in Newport, Rhode Island. This will be The Country Club’s fourth time hosting the event, the others being held there in 1913, 1963 and 1988.
That first U.S. Open had ten professionals and one amateur. The winner was Horace Rawlins, a 21-year-old Englishman who had arrived in the U.S. Earlier that year to take up a position at the host club. He received $150 out of a prize fund of $335, plus a $50 gold medal.
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His club received the Open Championship Cup trophy, which was presented by the USGA.
Since the PGA Championship moved from August to May, the U.S. Open is now the third of the four men’s major golf championships.
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