Capetown: The men in blue clinched a thriller against host South Africa at the Newlands Cricket ground on Saturday evening to win the three-match T20I series 2-1.Chasing a challenging total of 173 runs handed by India, the Proteas were almost whiskers away from a win tonight. However, a brilliant death over bowling by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar sealed another series win for India.
South Africa skipper JP Duminy and Christiaan Jonker's brilliant batting was about to end roads for India as the duo smashed 55 and 49 respectively.With the issue going to the final over, it was Kumar's experience coming into play which restricted the hosts to 165/6 in the allotted overs as India sealed another series after bagging the ODI series 5-1. (UNI)