On day four during the second innings, Maharaj was the last bowler to strike for Proteas, before Kusal Mendis and skipper Dhananjaya de Silva battled it around with a solid Proteas bowling line-up for 18.5 overs, ending the day four at 205/5, leaving them with just 143 more runs to chase. No
Former Proteas cricketer JP Duminy has stepped down from his role as South Africa's white-ball batting coach with immediate effect due to personal reasons.
Batting coach Thilina Kandamby said that the Sri Lanka players are not mentally down after conceding a massive 233-run defeat against South Africa in the first match Test of the series.
Maphaka, the highest-wicket-taker in ICC U19 WC 2024 with 21 scalps in six matches, made two appearances for Mumbai Indians (MI) last year and conceded 89 runs, taking just a wicket. Also, he has played three T20Is for Proteas, taking a wicket.
A two-time IPL winner with the Chennai Super Kings, du Plessis has scored an impressive 4,571 runs in 145 matches, including 37 half-centuries in the tournament. The Proteas batter led the Royal Challengers Bengaluru to the playoffs in the previous season
Men in Blue played five bilateral series this year and won all of them. Be it Afghanistan and Bangladesh at home, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and South Africa away from home, all of them suffered the wrath, audacity and explosiveness of a young Indian line-up. In all India won 24 of their 26 matches
India skipper Suryakumar Yadav reflected on Men in Blue's win over South Africa in the fourth T20I match in Johannesburg and said that they wanted to follow the good habits in the game.
After playing a stupendous knock against South Africa in the fourth T20I match of the series, India wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson said that he had a lot of failures in his life and the century against the Proteas meant a lot to him.
"Proteas Men's fast bowler Lungi Ngidi has been ruled out of the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka, as well as the all-format tour against Pakistan, due to a groin injury," CSA stated in a statement.
Following victory over South Africa in the third T20I match, India skipper Suryakumar Yadav said that the Men in Blue have played the brand of cricket that they wanted to play.
Following a promising start to his T20I career, Aiden Markram has experienced a dip in performance in T20Is this year, failing to smash even a single fifty. In 16 matches, he has made 212 runs at a poor average of 15.14 and a strike rate of 116.48, with the best score of 46.
Chakravarthy's game-changing spell went in vain as Proteas recovered from a batting collapse and were rescued on time by Tristan Stubbs and Gerald Coetzee, who guided the hosts to a three-wicket win during a run-chase of 125 runs.