Jasprit Bumrah was unavailable for the third T20I in Dharamsala as he went back to Ahmedabad for personal reasons, and Axar Patel was unwell. India won the toss for the second time in a row, and decided to field as the conditions were dewy already.

Bumrah's absence created an opportunity for Harshit Rana, whose batting ability at No. 8 opened the door for Kuldeep Yadav to come in and join the mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy. Varun is one short of 50 T20I wickets, and Kuldeep is one of the only five bowlers in the world to have taken 50 wickets and averaged better than him.

South Africa , as has been their wont, made three changes to the XI that leveled the series in New Chandigarh. Tristan Stubbs, Corbin Bosch and Anrich Nortje came in for David Miller, Lutho Sipamla and Georg

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