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IND vs SA, 4th T20I: The Indian team’s tour of South Africa is about to end. The fourth and final match of the 4-match T20I series will be played in Johannesburg. The Indian team is ahead 2-1 in this series and will now try to win the series 3-1. However, the host South African team will look for a tie in the series.
The Johannesburg Wanderers have always been lucky with the Indian team. Team India won the first T20 World Cup by defeating Pakistan on this ground in 2007. The record of the Indian team on this ground is excellent. Team India has played a total of 5 T20I matches here so far and has managed to win 1 of the remaining 5. Team India played its last T20I match in Johannesburg 6 years ago i.e. in the year 2018. Team India has changed a lot since then. In these 6 years, many players have been dropped from the Indian team. These also include many veteran players.
The team played its last game 6 years ago.
Team India played its last T20I match against South Africa on February 18, 2018 in Johannesburg. At that time, this was the first match of the 3-match T20I series in which the command of the Indian team was in the hands of Virat Kohli and Mahendra Singh Dhoni was part of the team as a wicketkeeper-batsman. The responsibility of starting the team’s innings was left to Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. Players like Suresh Raina, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Manish Pandey, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal and Jaydev Unadkat also participated in that match. But time passed and little by little most of these players lost their connection with the team.
9 players are not part of the Indian team
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma bid farewell to T20I cricket, while Shikhar Dhawan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina have retired from all three formats of cricket. At the same time, Manish Pandey, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal and Jaydev Unadkat have been out of the team for a long time. Only 2 players from the eleven of the T20I match played in Johannesburg 6 years ago are currently with the Indian team. Among them, Hardik Pandya is the only player who will play the fourth T20I match of the series against South Africa today because Jasprit Bumrah is with the Test team to tour Australia.
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