South Africa got punished for dropping a catch, and Ireland defeated them for the second time in the ODI, this plan was washed away in another series.
South Africa may have won the ODI series. But before that Ireland has created history. It has defeated South Africa by 69 runs in the third and the last ODI of the series. This is the second time in ODI history that Ireland has defeated South Africa. With this success, the Ireland team has dashed South Africa's hopes of a clean sweep in back-to-back series. Earlier in the 2 T20 series also, Ireland had held South Africa to a 1-1 draw.
The player whose 2 catches were dropped by South Africa scored 60 runs.
The main reason for South Africa's defeat in the last match of the ODI series was their dropping catches. The Ireland batsman whose catches they dropped not one but two created trouble for them. South Africa had dropped both the catches of Harry Tector, taking advantage of which, they played a fast-paced innings of 60 runs in just 48 balls.
Harry Tector and Paul Stirling scored runs for Ireland.
Batting first, Ireland scored 284 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs thanks to Harry Tector's 12th half-century in his ODI career in the middle order. However, it would be wrong not to talk about the contribution of captain Paul Stirling in the top order. Paul Stirling played a big innings of 88 runs in 92 balls as an opener. During this innings, Stirling also made a century partnership for the first wicket and a 58-run partnership with Camper for the second wicket. Lizard Williams was the most successful bowler from South Africa, who took 4 wickets.
Now South Africa had a target of scoring 285 runs in 50 overs. But, they could not even play the full 50 overs, let alone achieve this target. The only positive thing in South Africa's batting was Jason Smith's innings of 91 runs. Graham Hume and Craig Young's 3-3 wickets left South Africa 69 runs short of the target. The entire team was all out after scoring 215 runs in 46.1 overs.
However, despite losing the third ODI, South Africa won the 3-match ODI series 2-1.