The Indian team defeated South Africa by 11 runs in the third T20 match. With this, Team India has taken a 2-1 lead in the series. Team India had given a target of 220 runs to Africa to win, in response to which the African team could score only 208 runs. Tilak Verma scored a century for Team India and Arshdeep Singh bowled strongly in the death overs. Varun Chakraborty may not have performed well in the third T20 for South Africa, but he has performed a big miracle. He took 2 wickets for 54 runs in four overs.
Varun Chakraborty did wonders in the bilateral series
Varun Chakraborty has become the highest wicket taker for India in the T20 bilateral series. He has left behind Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravi Bishnoi. Ashwin took 9 wickets in the T20I bilateral series against Sri Lanka in 2016. Whereas Bishnoi took 9 wickets in the T20I bilateral series against Australia in the year 2023. Now Varun has left all these behind and taken 11 wickets in the ongoing series against South Africa. Varun has done this miracle as soon as he took the first wicket against South Africa. Before Varun, no Indian bowler had taken 10 or more wickets in a T20 bilateral series.