SA vs ZIM

The South African skipper Bjorn Fortuin gets invited to collect the trophy and he is joined by his teammates behind the Champions placard as they pose for the photographs after the trophy gets handed over to the skipper by the Vice President of Namibia. This was a very young and inexperienced South African side missing its regular names with a new skipper at the helm and they will return with the silverware in their hands as they emerge victors. A successful tournament for the Proteas and a good one for Zimbabwe as well as hosts Namibia who gave us many moments of excitement including their win against South Africa in the very first match. Hopefully, it opens up many more opportunities for them and for teams to come here more often

Time for us to take your leave now. It has been a pleasure bringing you all the action, hope you have enjoyed our coverage. This is Sourabh Agrawal signing off on behalf of Bidipto Datta and the rest of the team. See you soon!

Bjorn Fortuin (South Africa captain): "A very good way to end the series! The most pleasing thing was someone different putting his hand up to win us matches, Jordan (Hermann) did it today. We don't want to be a team that relies on one or two guys to do the job. So, that was the best takeaway." 

Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe captain): It has been a good outing overall. Good to be here and play some good cricket. The only downside I feel is that we have taken two steps forward and one step back, it was hurtful. We missed a lot of boxes, South Africa showed us how to bowl on that wicket. We expected the wicket to play like that but we missed our lengths, you cannot tell me that the wicket got better in the second innings and to top that we were not up to the mark with the bat. Our tail has been scoring a lot of runs but that does not mean the batters do not need to do the job. Imagine setting a platform for these guys, they can win the game for us but it was not good enough from us

Jordan Hermann (Player of the Match, 53 runs off 29 deliveries): "I think it was a very good performance from us, so pretty chuffed! There was never a competition with my brother for the player of the match awards, but, it's great to be contributing for the team." 

5:30 PM local time (9:00 PM IST): The final post-match presentation of the series! Let's hear it from the Player of the Match, the Player of the Series and the captains.

5:15 PM local time (8:45 PM IST): MATCH SUMMARY

South Africa (205/5 in 20 overs) beat Zimbabwe (157 all-out in 18 overs) by 48 runs

Jordan Hermann 53(29) | Bjorn Fortuin 3/24(4)
Brad Evans 56*(31) & 2/36(4)

South Africa's biggest win over Zimbabwe in T20Is as they clinch the tri-series in clinical fashion. Late heroics from Brad Evans who was the lone warrior for the Chevrons, not only did he do his primary job with the ball but also put on fireworks with the bat getting to his maiden fifty. Alas, he was let down by his teammates but that does not take away anything from South Africa's performance

The target of 206 was always going to be a steep climb for Zimbabwe but they did not even put up a fight as the South African seamers killed the game off inside the powerplay itself. 

A wicket each in the first 4 overs as Zimbabwe found themselves in big hole at 25/4 and the writing was on the wall. The batters were guilty of throwing their wickets away trying to hit too many shots but the duo of Bosch and Jansen held their lines and lengths with the new ball and got the wickets

There was a mini partnership between Burl and Raza before Fortuin got into the act with his left-arm spin. The South African skipper picked up 3 wickets in his first 3 overs straight after the powerplay and put to rest any hopes of a fightback dismissing both Burl and Raza

At one point, Zimbabwe were 81/8 and looked like would fold in double digits but then the Brad Evans show began. He played some delightful shots and saved face for Zimbabwe putting on a 52-run stand for the 9th wicket with Matigimu who at number 10 was the second highest run getter of the innings

Evans got his fifty, Muzarabani also launched one over the fence but then the inevitable happened and Zimbabwe were bowled out. But it could have been much worse for them had it not been for Evans. Nonetheless. South Africa are deserving winners of this tri-series winning four games in a row convincingly after losing out to hosts Namibia on the first day

17.6 Duan Jansen to Blessing Muzarabani, SOUTH AFRICA ARE THE CHAMPIONS! ZIMBABWE'S RESISTANCE COMES TO AN END. Pitched up around off-stump. Muzarabani tried to go hard, over mid-on, from deep in the crease. But all he ended up doing, is sky it high to cover. The fielder there got under it, kept his eyes on it and completed the catch to end the match! 

17.5 Duan Jansen to Brad Evans, length ball outside off-stump. Evans pushed across, went down on one knee and helped it over the mid-wicket area for a single. 

17.4 Duan Jansen to Brad Evans, FOUR RUNS! Full and wide outside off. Evans pushes right back, opens up the front leg and thumps it along the ground, to the left of wide long-off! 

Evans gets to his maiden fifty in style and the crowd erupts! 54 needed off 15, in case anyone of you is wondering. What a knock this has been

17.3 Duan Jansen to Brad Evans, SIX MORE! Slow and in the slot on middle-stump. Evans leans forward, gets under it and slams it off the thick inside half of the bat, over deep mid-wicket! Evans reaches his fifty. 

17.3 Duan Jansen to Brad Evans, FIVE WIDES! On the fuller side of good length outside off. Evans left it alone on line and Esterhuizen let it go through his gloves and legs! 

17.2 Duan Jansen to Blessing Muzarabani, full and around off-stump. The big heave over mid-on from deep in the crease gets beaten. But, the batters run through for a single off the edge, down to short third.