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“It’s with us and we have to make the most of it, even until the last day of the tour”.

South Africa: JP Duminy (c), Farhaan Behardien, Junior Dala, AB de Villiers, Reeza Hendricks, Christiaan Jonker, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), David Miller, Chris Morris, Dane Paterson, Aaron Phangiso, Andile Phehlukwayo, Tabraiz Shamsi, JJ Smuts.

Team India captain Virat Kohli can also be said as Run Mchine as his bat continues to show blasts in nearly every match he plays.

South Africa won their Test series against India before the tourists came firing back to thrash the Proteas 5-1 in the ODIs – and now it’s on to the three Twenty20 internationals.

Sealing mouths of all the critics Team India under the captainship of Virat Kohli has emerged as the victor against South Africa in the sixth ODI. So, team South Africa came to bat for the first time and faced batting trouble. They contributed only 46.98% of runs of the runs scored by South Africa batsmen.

Over the past domestic season, Raina finished as the sixth-highest run-scorer at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy – India’s domestic T20 tournament – with 314 runs in nine matches at a strike-rate of 146, including knocks of 126 not out, 61 and 56 against Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Baroda.

Kohli is a class player and is the best thing for Indian cricket after the retirement of Sachin Tendulkar. Shardul Thakur, who was picked in place of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar (to test the Bench strength), dazzled by picking up 4 wickets in 8.2 overs.

204 runs in ODI competition was so poor and if that was against India, then the match was already missed.

India though reached 100-run mark in 14.3 overs.

Shastri lauded Kohli’s leadership and his batting skills: “I’ve seen him batting across all conditions, all formats”. He left the crease with victory. The South Africa women matched their male counterparts on the field, pulling off stunning catches. South Africa were without batsman AB de Villiers, who was ruled out of the series after suffering a blow to his left knee ahead of the sixth one-day global in Centurion on Friday.

Chasing an easy target of 205, India lost Rohit Sharma early after he hit a few fours.

But in the post-match press conference, Virat Kohli made it clear that he has never ever played cricket to be a “headline grabber”.