INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
South Africa bounced back from two heavy defeats to beat Afghanistan by seven wickets in the last encounter of their One Day International
Series in Sharjah on Sunday, Reuters reported.Aiden Markram’s unbeaten 69 and 26 not out from Tristan Stubbs saw them reach 170 for three
wickets off 33 overs in reply to Afghanistan’s modest total of 169.Afghanistan had skittled South Africa out cheaply to win the first
match on Wednesday and then handed the visitors a 177-run thumping on Friday but were unable to replicate their form, even after again
winning the toss and electing to bat in the third ODI.Their innings was dominated again by the powerful hitting of opener Rahmanullah
Gurbaz, who scored 105 in Friday’s comprehensive victory which saw Afghanistan go 2-0 up in the three-match series.This time he fell 11
short of another century, smashing 89 off 94 balls before being snapped up on the boundary by a flying catch by Reeza Hendricks off the
bowling of Andile Phehlukwayo, read the report.But for the rest, the Afghanis were undone by poor decision making and a little misfortune as
they suffered three runouts.Rahmat Shah was run out when a ball that was hit back down the wicket by Gurbaz was deflected by the hand of
bowler Lungi Ngidi onto the shoulder of the stranded Shah and onto his wicket.Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Ikram Alikhil were slow in
making their ground and run out by quick thinking in the field with Afghanistan slumping to 132 for seven before Allah Ghazanfar contributed
an unbeaten 31 off 15 to take them past 150, Reuters reported.South Africa were always on course to reach the target even after losing their
opening three batsmen for 80 runs.Markram was the aggressor with Stubbs in a supporting role as their unbeaten 90-run partnership saw South
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