West Indies has done a clean sweep of 3-0 in the 3 match T20 series against South Africa. The Caribbean team defeated South Africa by 8 wickets by DLS method in the third and final match on Tuesday night. The team had won the first T20 match by 7 wickets and the second by 30 runs. In Trinidad, host West Indies won the toss and decided to bowl. In this rain affected match, South African team had scored only 108 runs for 4 wickets in 13 overs when it started raining. In reply, West Indies got a revised target of 116 runs. Caribbean batsmen achieved this target by losing 2 wickets in 9.2 overs. Romario Shepherd was chosen the Man of the Match. He took 2 wickets for 14 runs. Shai Hope, who scored 134 runs, was chosen the Player of the Series. Slow start for African, Stubbs top scorer
South African team, which came to bat after winning the toss, had a slow start. The team lost the first wicket at a score of 23 runs. The team had scored only 23 runs in the powerplay as well. Here opener Reeza Hendricks was dismissed after scoring 9 runs. Rickleton and Markram took over the innings
After Hendricks was dismissed, opener Ryan Rickleton (27 runs) shared a 38-run partnership in 25 balls with captain Aiden Markram for the second wicket. Here captain Markram was also dismissed after scoring 20 runs. Then after the captain was dismissed, Tristan Stubbs played a fiery innings of 40 runs in 15 balls. He scored runs at a strike rate of 266.66 with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. Shepherd got 2 wickets, Hussain-Frode also got wickets
For West Indies, Romario Shepherd took 2 wickets for 14 runs in 2 overs. Akeel Hussain and Matthew Frode got one wicket each. West Indies lost a wicket for 2 runs in the run chase
Chasing the revised target of 116 runs, West Indies had a bad start. The team lost the wicket of opener Alick Athanose at a score of 2 runs. He was dismissed by Bjorn Fortuin. Hope’s match winning innings, fifty partnership with Pooran-Hetmyer
After losing the first wicket early, Shai Hope took charge. He made the team win by making a fifty partnership with Nicholas Pooran and Shimron Hetmyer. Hope made a partnership of 58 runs in 20 balls and an unbeaten 56 runs in 33 balls with Pooran. In the match, Hope scored 42, Pooran 35 and Hetmyer 31 runs. Apart from Fortuin, Othneil Bartman got the wicket from South Africa.
