Chahar’s enterprise not sufficient to salvage comfort win

A South Africa tour that had begun with expectations of dominance – heightened by the Centurion Test win – ended with a fifth successive defeat for India, a four-run loss in Cape Town bringing a 0-3 ODI sequence wipeout. It was the closest India had come to successful a sport after Centurion, albeit an inconsequential one with the sequence already misplaced. But simply when the match appeared to have settled decisively of their grasp, following a well-recognized middle-order stumble and a surprising revival, they fell aside on the last hurdle.
In his earlier ODI, Deepak Chahar had walked in at 160/6 in a chase of 276 in opposition to Sri Lanka in Colombo final July. It grew to become 193/7, however Chahar took India to a series-sealing victory with an unbeaten 69, enjoying some outrageous strokes alongside the way in which.

FIFTY!
An important half-century from @deepak_chahar9. Will he flip it right into a match successful knock?
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Six months later, Chahar appeared to have stolen one other ODI chase from a house facet’s grasp; his 54 off 34 deliveries had resuscitated India from 223/7 of their pursuit of 288 at Newlands. In his solely match of the tour, Chahar had are available at 195/5 after Shreyas Iyer’s exit to a brief ball for 17.

Deepak Chahar you magnificence 👌💥Very Well Played 54(34) 🙌#DeepakChahar | #INDvSA | #SAvINDpic.twitter.com/zb6gJ8ZNtq
— Ash MSDian™ 💛 (@ashMSDIAN7) January 23, 2022
Chahar pulled a Lungi Ngidi quick ball for 4 and hit Dwaine Pretorius for successive sixes – a swipe excessive over deep midwicket and a sliced drive previous sweeper cowl. His blows, aided by Jasprit Bumrah’s spunk, had shocked the South Africans, and the once-steep equation had been hacked all the way down to a mere 10 off 18.
Indian batsman Deepak Chahar performs a shot in the course of the third ODI match between South Africa and India at Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Halden Krog)
And then Chahar performed one shot too many on a floor the place taking the tempo off had more and more made uninhibited strokeplay fraught with danger. He was caught by a sliding Pretorius at cowl off Ngidi, and India managed so as to add solely 5 runs after his dismissal. Four balls have been nonetheless left within the sport when Yuzvendra Chahal top-edged Pretorius for David Miller to take a sitter and depart Chahar near tears on a chair close to the boundary together with his pads nonetheless on.

That’s that from the ultimate ODI. South Africa win by 4 runs and take the sequence 3-0.
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— BCCI (@BCCI) January 23, 2022
He had tried his finest to vary the script however India finally caught to the narrative of the primary ODI in Paarl. They have been 138/1 there chasing 297. Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli had added 92, however after the previous’s departure, they unravelled to 214/8 and a 31-run loss.
In Cape Town, India have been 116/1. Dhawan and Kohli had placed on 98. Dhawan fell, and the center order caved in once more. There was an enterprising 39 off 32 from Suryakumar Yadav, who had changed Venkatesh Iyer, however like Chahar, he performed too many forcing photographs on a tough pitch, and paid the worth.

In distinction, Quinton de Kock had hung round lengthy sufficient to make 124 to propel South Africa to 287, which proved to be simply sufficient to consign Rahul Dravid’s first tour as full-time India coach to an utter catastrophe.
Brief scores: South Africa 287 in 49.5 overs (de Kock 124, van der Dussen 52; Krishna 3/59) beat India 283 in 49.2 overs (Kohli 65, Dhawan 61, Chahar 54; Phehlukwayo 3/40, Ngi 3/58) by 4 runs