India vs South Africa 4th T20I, Live Cricket Score: India look to seal series in Lucknow

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IND vs SA 4th T20 Live Cricket Score: India's captain Suryakumar Yadav, right, talks with South Africa's captain Aiden Markram before the start of the third T20 cricket match. (AP Photo)

India (IND) vs South Africa (SA) 4th T20 Live Cricket Score Updates: The Indian team has a chance to wrap up the T20I series today in Lucknow when they face off against South Africa in the fourth T20I. If that happens it would be the Men in Blues’ 14th consecutive T20I series triumph.

So far in a T20 series that is being played between the two finalists of the last T20 World Cup, India have had the upper hand.

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There has been significant scrutiny of the form of India’s captain Suryakumar Yadav and vice captain Shubman Gill in the shortest format of the game. The lack of runs coming from both batters is a concern for India with the T20 World Cup just around the corner.

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Without Abhishek Sharma, India’s top-order strike rate dips from 147.79 to 124.20 – one of weakest Top 4 in the world

It is a practice the current India head coach Gautam Gambhir despises, but for the swelling run crisis among the top-order faculty, his team had to turn to their newfound ‘superstar’ to allay fears before the penultimate T20I against South Africa in Lucknow.

Captain Suryakumar Yadav and his deputy, Shubman Gill, are in a diabolical rut. The senior has not strummed his blade with sustained quality for nearly the entire year. Meanwhile, the under-fire vice-captain, has not lasted long enough to relay the niceties of his IPL template and provide context to India’s sudden anchor-accumulator fallback at the top.

Even a tepid 118-run chase up in Dharamsala could not help the leadership group catch a break. Instead, it was up to the format’s new batting maverick, Abhishek Sharma, to repose faith in Suryakumar and Gill’s match-winning abilities before the T20 World Cup defence begins in Mumbai, in 50 days.

“Trust me, Suryakumar and Shubman will win matches for India in the World Cup, and in the matches before that as well.

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