{"id":3899,"date":"2022-06-17T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=228890"},"modified":"2022-06-17T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:43:53","slug":"ind-v-sa-4th-t20i-temba-bavuma-wins-fourth-consecutive-toss-opts-to-bowl-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-v-sa-4th-t20i-temba-bavuma-wins-fourth-consecutive-toss-opts-to-bowl-first\/","title":{"rendered":"IND v SA 4th T20I: Temba Bavuma wins fourth consecutive toss; opts to bowl first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Temba+Bavuma\">Temba Bavuma<\/a>, captain of South Africa won the toss for the fourth time in a row and elected to bowl in the fourth match of the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ind+v+sa\">T20I series<\/a> against India in Rajkot on Friday (June 17). Bavuma has won the toss in the last three T20I\u00a0matches and has chosen to bowl.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa beat India by seven wickets in the first T20I of the five-match series. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=David+miller\">David Miller<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rassie+van+der+Dussen\">Rassie van der Dussen<\/a> both scored blazing half-centuries for the proteas.<\/p>\n<p>In the second T20I at Cuttack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Heinrich+Klaasen\">Heinrich Klaasen<\/a>\u2018s 81 helped South Africa chase down a 149-run goal and defeat India by four wickets. The win also gave the Proteas a 2-0 lead in the five-game T20I series. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Bhuvneshwar+Kumar\">Bhuvneshwar Kumar<\/a>\u2019s triple-strike disrupted the Proteas in the powerplay, Bavuma kept the scoreboard ticking with 35 off 30 balls.<\/p>\n<p>For South Africa, that was just a horrible day in Vizag during the third match, in which nothing went according to the\u00a0plan, and the Temba Bavuma-led squad would want to decide the conclusion just on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>India will try to level the series against South Africa in Rajkot on Friday, following a satisfactory\u00a048-run win in the third T20 in Visakhapatnam. India, captained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rishabh+Pant\">Rishabh Pant<\/a>, has lost its opening two matches in Delhi and Cuttack.<\/p>\n<p>Having 164 runs in three games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ishan+Kishan\">Ishan Kishan<\/a> seems to have been India\u2019s most reliable batsman. India will be looking for another strong start in Rajkot, especially after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ruturaj+Gaikwad\">Ruturaj Gaikwad<\/a>\u2018s maiden T20 half \u2013\u00a0century\u00a0the other day.<\/p>\n<p>Bhuvneshwar Kumar, amongst bowlers, demonstrated why he is still regarded as one of the most trusted by most captains. With three and four wickets respectively, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Yuzvendra+Chahal\">Yuzvendra Chahal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Harshal+Patel\">Harshal Patel<\/a> recaptured their groove in Vizag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot, India and South Africa will play the fourth T20I match. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3334,1587,2711],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ind-v-sa-t20i","tag-t20i-series","tag-temba-bavuma"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}