Yusuf Pathan became the real storm in the final match of India and South Africa cricket match, and scored 105 runs from just 70 deliveries. But he could not reach the victory for his team India. The whole team of South African feared on his lonely batting performance for some minutes. Finally he lost with wicket when team score was 219. Yusuf Patham made his second century with 70 balls.
In the 5 one day series cricket match the 5th match was crucial one and was having all the make ups of a final match. India made mistake when they got a toss by choosing to field first. South Africa made a total of 250 runs from the 46 over loosing 9 wickets. The fine total of South Africa was completed with the unbeaten performance of Hashim Amla with 116 runs from 132 balls. Hashim Amla came as an opener and remained not out in the match with 116 runs. Morne Van Wyk made 56 runs giving a good support to Amla. JP Duminy scored 35 runs, AB de Villiers got 11 runs and all other batmen even fail to find a 2 digit score in their score boards. Munaf Patel got 3 wickets, Zaheer Khan and Yuvarj Singh got two wickets each. MS Dhoni made to South African batman run out. When the total over was shortened to 46 overs, India's target was 268 from 46 overs.
In Indian innings Rohit Sharma was clean bowled by Lonwabo Tsotsobe of South Africa when the team score was just 21 runs. Virat Kohli out for just 2 runs giving a catch to AB de Villiers in the bowling of Morne Morkel. MS Dhoni, Yuvaraj Singh, Suresh Raina marched pavilion with runs of 5,8,11 respectively. The new opener Parthiv Patel returned to pavilion before Yuvaraj Singh & Suresh Raina with 38 runs from 34 deliveries. Harbhajan Singh scored 13 runs from 16 balls with a huge six . Piyush Chawla scored 8 runs from 11 deliveries. Zaheer Khan made 24 runs from 58 balls with 3 boundaries. Yusuf Pathan was the real hero of Indian camp who failed to get victory to team India in the crucial final match. If he could remain an crease and played for three more overs, Team India might have got a new record of getting a one day cricket series from South African ground and it might have boosted the chance of coming ICC world cup 2011 victory to India.
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