Overview
- India reached 271 in 39.5 overs with 10.1 overs to spare after a 155-run opening stand led by Rohit Sharma’s 75, during which he passed 20,000 international runs.
- Yashasvi Jaiswal anchored the chase with an unbeaten 116 in his fourth ODI, becoming the sixth Indian with centuries in all three formats and taking Player of the Match.
- Virat Kohli finished 65 not out and was named Player of the Series with 302 runs from two hundreds and a fifty across the three games.
- Prasidh Krishna (4-66) and Kuldeep Yadav (4-41) shared eight wickets to bowl South Africa out for 270, despite Quinton de Kock’s 106.
- KL Rahul ended India’s sequence of 20 straight lost ODI tosses and chose to field to negate the dew and softer-ball phase, with the teams now shifting to a five-match T20I leg starting Tuesday in Cuttack.