India vs South Africa Live Score 5th T20: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson Fly To 50-Run Opening Stand in 4.4 Overs vs SA – Times Now

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India vs South Africa Live Score 5th T20: Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson took India off to a flyer in the fifth and final T20I of the series at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. Earlier, South Africa won the toss and opted to bowl first. Stay tuned here for all the latest updates.
Updated Dec 19, 2025, 19:30 IST
IND vs SA Live Score 5th T20I: South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
5.4: Corbin Bosch to Abhishek Sharma, OUT! CAUGHT! Strangled down the leg side, but Abhishek Sharma has reviewed it right away. A proper short ball from Corbin Bosch but angles it down the leg side. Sharma looks to pull it behind square leg but misses and seems to have got a feather through to the keeper. Quinton de Kock pouches it safely and the umpire raises his finger almost instantly. However, the third umpire is now called in and this looks very close on the first replay. UltraEdge rolls and there is a spike when the ball is next to the gloves and it remains OUT. Sharma walks back for 34 (21) and India lose their first wicket at 63.
5.3: Corbin Bosch to Abhishek Sharma, SIX! High and handsome! Good-length delivery around off, Abhishek Sharma simply clears the front leg and lofts it on the rise, nailing it over long off for his first six of the game.
5.3: Corbin Bosch to Abhishek Sharma, Wide! On a hard length and pushed well across the left-hander, ends up spraying beyond the tramline and a wide is called.
5.2: Corbin Bosch to Abhishek Sharma, Back of a length and on middle and leg, Sharma gets cramped for room and pushes it down to the left of mid on.
5.1: Corbin Bosch to Abhishek Sharma, Swing and a miss! Bosch hammers a shorter length and angles it across off, Abhishek Sharma shimmies down the track whilst making room and looks to smack it through covers but misses.
Corbin Bosch comes in to bowl the final over of the Powerplay.
4.6: Marco Jansen to Abhishek Sharma, Jansen bends his back and bashes the deck hard, over middle. Abhishek Sharma backs away and looks to flat bat it down the ground. Ends up bunting it down the deck and the bounce takes the ball over the bowler’s head for a single. 15 runs off the over.
4.5: Marco Jansen to Abhishek Sharma, FOUR! Finesse this time! Not a lot wrong with this ball, on a back of a length, in and around the off pole. Sharma waits on it and steers it with an open bat face between short third and backward point for four more.
4.4: Marco Jansen to Abhishek Sharma, FOUR! 50 up for India! Full and slanted in from over the wicket, on middle. Abhishek shimmies down the track and stays leg side of the ball to get his hands through. With a still head, he launches it over mid off for a four.
4.3: Marco Jansen to Sanju Samson, On a hard length, on top of off, dabbed down to deep backward point for a single.
4.2: Marco Jansen to Sanju Samson, FOUR! Up and over! Jansen pushes one across the right-hander, on a length. Samson extends his hands into the lofted drive and goes over extra cover for a boundary.
Marco Jansen switches ends now. He went for 19 in his first over.
4.1: Marco Jansen to Abhishek Sharma, Leg bye! Angled into the pads, on a length, Abhishek is beaten on the flick and a leg bye is taken as the ball drops on the leg side.
3.6: Ottneil Baartman to Sanju Samson, FOUR! Fortuitous boundary for Samson! Full and wide on off, Samson reaches out for the drive with his hands but gets an outside edge. Reeza Hendricks at slip flies to his right while Lungi Ngidi at short third flings himself to his left but the ball goes right between them.
3.5: Ottneil Baartman to Sanju Samson, Nicely bowled! Baartman spots Samson back away and he follows him with a searing yorker, right at the toes. Sanju digs it out beside the strip on the off side.
3.4: Ottneil Baartman to Sanju Samson, In the air…but safe! Baartman hits the hard length, on middle. Sanju backs away to go inside out but is hurried and the ball gets big on him. The bat turns a bit in his hand and it is sliced over and wide of the man at mid off to his left. Two runs taken.
3.3: Ottneil Baartman to Sanju Samson, FOUR! Samson takes the aerial route this time! In the slot from Baartman, around off, Sanju meets the ball with a straight bat again and plays the lofted drive to the left of mid on for four more.
3.2: Ottneil Baartman to Sanju Samson, Pulls the length back slightly and it is in the corridor of off, Sanju attempts the drive through the off side but misses.
An early bowling change as Ottneil Baartman comes in to replace Marco Jansen.
3.1: Ottneil Baartman to Sanju Samson, FOUR! Class written all over it! Full and at the sticks, Samson presents the full face of the bat and creams the drive down the track. The ball goes past the stumps at the bowling end and it races away.
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