The 5th T20I match between India and South Africa will be played on 19th June at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium. Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru will see the Proteas and the hosts taking on each other in the series-decider. IND vs SA 5th T20I series may cancel for Rain, match details here.
India made a roaring comeback in the series after going down 2-0, they won both of their next games to level the series at 2-2, with one game to go. It had been a rainy few days in Bengaluru – the venue for the IND vs SA 5th T20I series, and the forecast on Sunday doesn’t inspire much confidence.
According to weather.com, ‘thunderstorms’ are expected in the morning hours, as well as near the scheduled start of the game. There are 80% chance of rain during the day, and to make matters worse, a 90% chance of rain during night time. Bengaluru weather forecast on June 19, 2022.
In case rain forces abandonment of the match, both teams will share the trophy. This is the first T20I at Bengaluru since September 2019, which, incidentally, was also played between the same teams. In the Rajkot T20I, India was put into batting first once again.
They ended up scoring 165 runs even after poor starts from the top-order, courtesy to DK (55 off 27 balls) and Hardik Pandya (46 off 31 balls) who went all guns blazing. Lungi Ngidi picked a couple of scalps off his 3 overs. Coming to the chase, South Africa was bundled out for a mere 87, none of their batters scored 20+ runs.
Avesh Khan was the chief architect of this collapse, he hunted 4 scalps while Yuzvendra Chahal picked a couple of wickets. The series stands perfectly at 2-2, with the stage set for the big game. Both the teams would be hoping to give in their everything into this to seal the series. Another mouth-watering encounter seems to be on the cards on Sunday.
The surface at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium is a batting-friendly wicket and is expected to assist the batters hugely in both the innings. There is very little help on offer for the pacers early on, and the spinners will play a decent role in the middle overs.
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IND vs SA 5th T20 predicted playing XI:
India: Ishan Kishan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant©(wk), Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal.
South Africa: Quinton de Kock(wk), Temba Bavuma©, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Dwaine Pretorius, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi, Lungi Ngidi.
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