🏏SA vs India, 3rd ODI: Venue: Boland Park, Paarl 🏏 - Page 18

Sanju Samson: Feels really emotional, going through the emotions now. Very happy to achieve this. Have been putting in a lot of work physically and mentally, happy to see the results go my way now. They bowled really well with the new ball, and the older ball was getting slower and more difficult to bat. So after KL got out, they had the momentum where Maharaj was bowling very well. But me and Tilak stuck it out and went strong at the end. We were playing an extra all rounder today, so me and Tilak had decided that we have to go hard from the 40th over onwards.

Pace vs spin in this innings

Pace: 35-0-234-7 | ER: 6.68

Spin: 15-2-56-1 | ER: 3.73

Sanju Samson’s innings today

First 90 balls: 64 runs | SR: 71.11

Last 24 balls: 44 runs | SR: 183.33

India innings progression

Overs 1-19: 102/3 | RR: 5.36

Overs 20-32: 37/0 | RR: 2.84

Overs 33-50: 157/5 | RR: 8.72

Momen: "As a Bangladeshi we always love to see the defeat of India in any types of sports with opponent but my prediction about today's match India will win convincingly.

there's a "fifth slip or fine gully" for de Zorzi, according to Mike Haysman

A breezy afternoon gust blowing at Paarl, should help the bowlers with the new cherry

South Africa Innings

1.5 Arshdeep Singh to de Zorzi, FOUR runs

Lucky way to get off the mark! Short ball and de Zorzi was ready to pull but some extra bounce induces the top edge

jay: "Why is Rahul keeping when Samson is clearly the better Keeper? What sort of bizarre strategy is this?" -- good practice for the tests coming up where Rahul is set to be the keeper-batter

END OF OVER 26 runs

SA: 8/0CRR: 4.00 • RRR: 6.02

Need 289 from 48 overs

T de Zorzi4 (6)

RR Hendricks2 (6)

Arshdeep Singh1-0-6-0

Mukesh Kumar1-0-2-0

Sanju Samson vs South Africa in ODIs

Inns: 5

Runs: 238

Avg: 119

SR: 99.16

50/100: 1/1

HS: 108

Highest innings totals for India in South Africa

351/3 vs Kenya, Paarl, 2001

311/2 vs Namibia, Pietermaritzburg, 2003 WC

303/6 vs South Africa, Cape Town, 2018

296/8 vs South Africa, Paarl, 2023

292/6 vs Sri Lanka, Johannesburg, 2003 WC