After a brilliant century from Aiden Markram, a solid knock from Matthew Breetzke and Dewald Brevis, and a cameo from Corbin Bosch secured a thrilling 4-wicket victory against India in the second ODI played at Raipur.

By this win, they levelled the series 1-1 and will enter the decider match with a positive note.

Batting first, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma made a decent start, scoring 22 and 14 respectively.

However, Virat Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad went on to make a solid partnership for the third wicket amassing 195-run partnership at Raipur.

Ruturaj Gaikwad went on to score century on 77 deliveries which included 12 fours and 2 sixes while playing along with Virat Kohli.

Meanwhile, Virat Kohli brought up his 53rd ODI century following Gaikwad’s maiden ODI century at Raipur.

With their dismissals, KL Rahul went on to add up 66 run to the scoreboard, helping the side to post 358 runs in their innings.

Marco Jansen picked two wickets while, Nandre Burger and Lungi Ngidi picked one wicket each.

Chasing a mammoth target, Aiden Markram and Quinton de Kock opened the innings while Arshdeep Singh opened the bowling attack.

Despite the dismissal of Quinton de Kock for 8 runs, Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma made a 99-run partnersip with both smashing fifties.

Scoring only 51 runs in the poweplay, they acceralated the innings after Bavuma’s dismissal, as Aiden Markram smashed his century and scored 110 runs before being dismissed by Harshit Rana.

Meanwhile, Breetzke who made an impact in the first ODI, has made a valiant knock scoring 68 runs off 64 deliveries.

Dewald Brevis added up 54 runs to the scoreboard and Tony de Zorzi went out on a retired hurt after scoring 17 runs.

Corbin Bosch and Keshav Maharaj took solid stance with 29* and 10* runs guiding the side march toward victory.

Aiden Markram was named the player of the match. Speaking at the post match presentation, Aiden Markram said, “I always take lessons from the previous game. We knew it is going to swing early and we took up that challenge. If had gotten off to a semi decent start then we could have chased it down.”

“Very similar today and we learned from our mistakes. There was a conservation later in the innings when myself and Temba were set to make a move, I am proud of the boys to get us over the line.”

“There were moments of pressure, but they stayed calm and got us the win. We have got 8 really good batters and Kesh as well. You feel that freedom as well.”

“The boys are putting their hands up in the middle order and now the top order has to start contributing. Pace on the ball is good but when it starts to nip around it becomes difficult,” concluded Aiden Markram.

The final match of the series will be played on December 06 at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.