India won the match and level the series, strong comeback by Indian team in the T20I series

India won the 4th T20 against South Africa and by winning this match, the series are level. The last T20 will be interesting because it will also decide the series winner.

1st innings:

South Africa won the toss and opted to field first. India did not begun well as they lost couple of early wickets and the run rate was also not really good. Just after powerplay, India lost the third wicket of Kishan and they were looking in deep trouble. Then captain Pant stayed on crease with Pandya even though he made only 17 runs but he gave licence to Hardik to hit boundaries and score runs. Pandya scored 46 in 31 deliveries before got out by Ngidi. Karthik again played brilliantly and hit his maiden T20 fifty. He scored 55 in 27 balls and his strike rate was over 200. Ngidi was economical from South Africa and took 2 wickets.

2nd innings:

The start for the Proteas was also bad as their captain got retired hurt and just after, De Cock got run out. None of the South African batter scored above 20 runs and only Dussen, De Cock and Jansen reached in double figures. Avesh Khan took 4 wickets and gave only 18 runs, which is his carrer best performance. Chahal also took 2 wickets and South Africa got all out on 87 runs. India won the match by 82 runs and Karthik became man of the match for his impressive performance.