IND VS RSA - 3rd T20I, South Africa tour of India, 2022

First win as India captain for Rishabh Pant and India end their seven-match losing streak (across formats) against the Proteas. Was this a one-off failure from the South African batters? The scoreline is still 2-1 in favour of the visitors. It's time to bring the curtains down on this encounter. The action shifts to Rajkot. Join us on Friday for the fourth T20I. Until then, goodbye and good night.

Yuzvendra Chahal, Player of the Match: I bowled a lot of sliders and bowled quicker in the previous matches. Today, I changed my seam position. Spinning and getting the ball to dip are my strengths. Today I tried to get it to turn and bowl slower. I tried to bowl to my strengths, I focused on that. When batters try to reverse-sweep, it becomes tough for the bowlers. But now I have a second plan and set fields accordingly. I didn't bowl well in the previous game, the coach asked me to back my strengths. The ground there (Rajkot) is bigger (*chuckles*).

Rishabh Pant: The execution was spot-on from the bowlers and the batters. We were 15 runs short, but we weren't thinking about that. Bowlers did a fantastic job for us. In India, spinners play a big role and there is pressure on them, when they come off nicely then matches like this happen. When you get a good start, it's difficult for a new batter to come in and go big straightaway. We lost too many wickets. We'll look to improve in the next match. We have to make sure that we finish the game with a bigger margin.

Temba Bavuma: As a collective, it wasn't our best effort. They were the better side. With the ball, they put us under pressure. The fielding really didn't back us up. With the batting, we didn't really turn up. The partnerships weren't there, there was no momentum. There have been a lot of improvements in the fielding department, this game we weren't up to the mark, in the first two games we were quite strong. Thoughts coming out to bat, we tried to assess, tried to get some momentum, unfortunately we couldn't do that. Losing three early wickets, always puts us under pressure. Quinton is an integral member of the team. Unfortunately we don't have him. We back Reeza at the top. The opportunity is there, we'll keep going with Reeza.

Harshal Patel: Pretty good. We wanted to execute certain plans, but it didn't work out in the last couple of games, it was a must win game to keep the series alive, pretty happy I did it in this game. Depends on how you look at it, again that old cliche, you follow the process, stay true when you are doing well or not, those are the things that carry you through bad phases and get you to improve when you are doing well. We have certain goals as a bowling group and we want to continue to achieve those goals. It is just adapting to it (the conditions), I went to yorkers early in the last two games, I focused on bowling the hard length today. This was a slow pitch and not good as Delhi or Cuttack, not quick as the other two grounds. One game at a time.

22:24 Local Time, 16:54 GMT, 22:24 IST: Comprehensive win for India and they stay alive in the series. Asked to bat for the third time in as many games, their openers got their team off to a flier with both of them notching up fifties. However, the visitors pulled it back in the second half of the innings to restrict India to 179. In reply, South Africa never really got going. The two Patels accounted for the South African openers inside the powerplay. Chahal, who conceded 49 runs off his four overs in the previous game, roared back in style. He removed van der Dussen and Pretorius off successive overs which put the tourists on the back foot. Harshal Patel deceived Miller with a slower one and SA's hopes were pinned on Heinrich Klaasen. Chahal ensured that there was no heroics from the wicketkeeper-batter tonight as the leg-spinner provided the killer blow in his final over to finish with impressive figures of 3/20. Bhuvi was at his miserly best and Harshal Patel ended up with a four-fer. All in all, it was a very good bowling performance from the hosts on a slow-ish surface. Stick around for the presentations..

Harshal Patel to Shamsi, out Caught by Avesh Khan!! 123.5kph, slower delivery on a length, Shamsi shuffles a bit and swings his bat hard. More height than distance. Avesh Khan runs in from long-on to snaffle with both hands. Game over! India win by 48 runs. Shamsi c Avesh Khan b Harshal Patel 0(1)

Harshal Patel to Shamsi, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Harshal Patel [3.0-0-25-3] is back into the attack

Bhuvneshwar to Parnell, no run, 134.9kph, back of a length, extra bounce as well outside off, Parnell flashes and misses. Another good outing for Bhuvneshwar who finishes with 1/21!

Tabraiz Shamsi, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Bhuvneshwar to Nortje, out Nortje Run Out!! 135.4kph, skiddy in-slanter, Nortje heaves and gets an inside edge that dribbles towards the keeper. The batter doesn't quite know where the ball is and turns around to make his ground. Parnell, meanwhile, keeps running. Nortje spots it too late and takes off. Pant rolls the ball towards the bowler and Bhuvi runs back to break the stumps and catch Nortje short of his ground. Nortje run out (Pant/Bhuvneshwar) 0(1)

Bhuvneshwar to Nortje, THATS OUT!! Run Out!!

Bhuvneshwar to Parnell, 1 run, back of a length, pace on, punched towards extra cover

Bhuvneshwar to Parnell, FOUR, 116.2kph, slower delivery from a back of a length, Parnell comes down the track, moves leg-side in the process and thrashes it over the bowler's head

Anrich Nortje, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Bhuvneshwar to Maharaj, out Caught by Karthik!! Simple catch for DK at backward point. Slower from a short of length, Maharaj shimmies down the track to try and go over mid-off. The ball flies off the outside edge and goes straight down Karthik's throat. Replay shows that it was a leg-cutter from Bhuvi. Maharaj c Karthik b Bhuvneshwar 11(8) [6s-1]

Bhuvneshwar to Maharaj, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Bhuvneshwar to Maharaj, no run, slower ball into the wicket, Maharaj fails to make contact with his pull shot

Bhuvneshwar Kumar [3.0-0-16-0] is back into the attack