Indian team defeated South Africa by 11 runs in the third T20 match. With this, Team India has taken a 2-1 lead in the series. Team India had given Africa a target of 220 runs to win, in response to which the African team could score only 208 runs. Tilak Verma scored a century for Team India and Arshdeep Singh bowled strongly in the death overs. Varun Chakraborty may not have performed well in the third T20 for South Africa, but he has performed a miracle. It proved costly. He took 2 wickets for 54 runs in his four overs.
Did wonders in the bilateral series
Varun Chakraborty has become the highest wicket-taker for India in T20 bilateral series. He has left behind Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravi Bishnoi. Ashwin took 9 wickets in a T20 bilateral series against Sri Lanka in 2016. While Bishnoi took 9 wickets in the T20 bilateral series against Sri Lanka in the year 2023. Now Varun has surpassed all these and has taken 10 wickets in the ongoing series against South Africa. Varun has shown this miracle by taking the first wicket against South Africa. Before Varun Chakraborty, no Indian bowler had taken 10 wickets in a T20 bilateral series.
Debuted in the year 2021
Varun Chakraborty made his debut for the Indian team in T20 International in the year 2021. After this he was also selected for T20 World Cup 2021. Where he could not perform well. After this he was shown the way out of Team India. But he would have done well in IPL. His fortunes then improved against Bangladesh under Surya’s captaincy and he made it to Team India.
Tilak Verma scored a century
Batting first, Tilak Verma scored a huge century for the Indian team and played an innings of 107 runs. Apart from that, Abhishek Sharma scored 50 runs. It was because of these players that the Indian team was able to score 200 plus runs. After which Arshdeep Singh took three wickets and turned the match towards India.
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