India and South Africa (IND vs SA) will meet today at the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam at 7 pm This third match of the five match T20 series is a do or die match for India. The Indian team, which is down 2-0 in the series, would like to win this match anyway. On the other hand, the South African team will win this match and enter the field with the intention of taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.
The performance of Team India in this series so far has been very poor. In the last two games, the Indian team has not been able to give any competition to South Africa. The Indian team was unable to defend the huge score of 211 runs in the first match and had to face defeat by 7 wickets. In the second match, the India team could not even score 150 runs. This game was also won by South Africa with 10 balls to spare.
In the last two matches, the playing XI of the Indian team was the same, but in the important match that will take place today, there may be some shake-up in the Indian team. Venkatesh Iyer can be fed in place of Ruturaj Gaikwad who failed in both matches. It is possible that by not giving Venkatesh a chance, Rishabh Pant himself should open with Ishan Kishan and call Deepak Hooda to bat in the fourth order. Apart from this, Ravi Bishnoi can replace Akshar Patel. Akshar has not proven to be effective in the last two matches. The third change could be the entry of Umran Malik. In this match, he can replace Avesh Khan or Harshal Patel.
Ishan Kishan, Venkatesh Iyer/Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravi Bishnoi, Umran Malik, and Yuzvendra Chahal.
Reza Hendricks, Recy van der Dussen, Temba Bavuma (c), Henrik Klaasen, Dwayne Pretorius, David Miller, Wayne Parnell, Tabariz Shamsi, Kagiso Rabada, Enrique Norkia, Keshav Maharaj.
