South Africa escapes a ‘clean sweep’, saves its ‘honor’ by defeating Afghanistan in the third ODI

AFG vs SA 3rd ODI Highlights: The South African cricket team saved its reputation by winning the third ODI against Afghanistan. If South Africa had lost the third ODI as well, it would have been clean swept 3-0 in the ODI series against Afghanistan. The African team has already been ruined by losing the series against Afghanistan.

Afghanistan had won the series by winning the first two matches of the three-match ODI series. Now in the third and final ODI of the series, South Africa defeated Afghanistan by 7 wickets. The bowlers played an important role in helping South Africa win the third ODI. Apart from this, Aiden Markram played a brilliant innings.

This is how the match went

In the match played at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Afghanistan won the toss and decided to bat, which proved to be completely wrong for them. Afghanistan, who came out to bat first, were all out for 169 runs in 34 overs by South African bowlers.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who came out to open for Afghanistan, played the biggest innings and scored 89 runs in 94 balls with the help of 7 fours and 4 sixes. Apart from this, only two more batsmen could cross the double digit mark. The remaining 8 batsmen scored single figures. During this time, Lungi Ngidi, Nkaba Peter and Phehlukwayo took 2-2 wickets for South Africa. The remaining 1 wicket was taken by Bjorn Fortuin.

South Africa won the match easily

South Africa, chasing the target, won by scoring 170/3 runs in 33 overs. While chasing the runs, Aiden Markram played the biggest innings of 69* runs with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes in 67 balls. During this, Tristan Stubbs supported him. Stubbs scored 26 runs with the help of 1 four and 1 six in 42 balls. Markram and Stubbs made a partnership of 90* (89 balls) runs and helped the team to win.

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