South Africa defeated Afghanistan by 7 wickets in the third and final ODI. With this, Afghanistan's plan of clean sweeping the 3 ODI series was thwarted. Before this, Afghanistan had already won the series by winning 2 ODIs. In such a situation, they were playing the third match with the intention of clean sweeping the series. But nothing good happened for them in this match. The target they set for South Africa was so modest that Aiden Markram sealed the chase with his unbeaten innings 102 balls in advance.

Afghanistan collapsed for 169 in the third ODI

In the third ODI played in Sharjah, Afghanistan batted first but they could not even play 50 overs. The whole team was all out after scoring 169 runs in 34 overs. The Afghanistan team made such a small score when Rahmanullah Gurbaz alone scored 89 runs. Gurbaz scored these runs by facing 119 balls with the help of 7 fours and 4 sixes.

South Africa won the match with 102 balls remaining

South Africa got an easy target of 170 runs to win the third ODI, which it achieved by losing 3 wickets in 33 overs. In this way, South Africa won the match by 7 wickets with 17 overs i.e. 102 balls remaining. Aiden Markram played a big role in South Africa's victory, who returned unbeaten after leading the team to victory.

Aiden Markram became a hurdle in the path of Afghanistan

Aiden Markram batted at a strike rate of over 102 and led the team to victory with 102 balls to spare. He faced 67 balls for South Africa and scored an unbeaten 69, which included 4 fours and 3 sixes. During this innings, he also shared a brilliant half-century partnership with Tristan Stubbs for the fourth wicket. Tristan Stubbs also remained unbeaten on 26 runs.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz Player of the Match/Series

However, despite leading South Africa to victory in the third ODI, Aiden Markram was not given the Player of the Match award. This award went to Rahmanullah Gurbaz. Gurbaz also became the Player of the Series as he scored 194 runs in 3 innings at an average of 64.66. Aiden Markram was the most successful batsman from South Africa, scoring 92 runs in 3 innings.