Third ODI between India and South Africa abandoned due to rain. South Africa wins ODI series 2-0.
Steyn and Morkel not part of the squad. This is India's chance to prevent a series white-wash.
This is the tenth time India has conceded 300+ runs this year.
South Africa 301/8 in 50 overs: David Miller gets SA past the 300-mark with his sixth fifty.
South Africa 291/7 in 49.1 overs: Shami bowls this one short, Parnell caught off-guard goes for 9.
Ishant Sharma gets his 100th ODI wicket.
South Africa 269/6 in 46.2 overs: Ishant gets his 4th wicket of the game. McLaren goes cheaply, swings wildly to find the fielder Umesh Yadav at deep mid-wicket.
South Africa 257/5 in 45 overs: India have managed to peg back the scoring rate somewhat after removing AB de.
Fifteen runs coming of Ashwin's 43rd over, Both Miller and AB hit one six each.
AB de Villiers plays a sublime knock to lift his team his stroke filled hundred coming in 96 balls.
South Africa 213/4 in 40 overs: AB de Villiers batting on 91 with david Miller who's batting on 2.
de Kock's 101 came of 120 balls, with nine fours and two sixes.
South Africa 199/4 in 38 overs: Its Ishant again. Brought back into the attack he removes centurion Quinton de Kock. de Kock swings and misses the ball clips the top of leg stump.
Quinton de Kock, first wicketkeeper in ODIs to score 3 consecutive tons.
AB de Villiers improvises to hit two consecutive sixes of Shami.
Quinton de Kock gets his 3rd hundred in this series, joining a club of illustrious batsmen.
South Africa 168/3 in 35 overs: Quinton de Kock batting on 98 and AB de Villiers batting on 51.
Quinton de Kock looks on course for his third century in a row. What a talent the young lad is.
South Africa 134/3 in 30 overs: Both AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock look very well set and might launch an attack soon.
South Africa 107/3 in 25 overs: AB and De Kock have done well to consolidate the South African innings. Can the Proteas pose another big score?
The young opener seems to relish the Indian attack
Quinton de Kock gets his third fifty in a row of this series.
Spinners are bowling tight, runs are hard to come for South Africa.
South Africa 80/3 in 20 overs: De Kock dropped twice, Rahane and Yuvraj the culprits.
South Africa 60/3 in 15 overs: South African skipper AB de Villiers and opener Q de Kock look to staedy the ship after initial hiccups with AB trying some innovation now and then.
South Africa 38/3 in 10 overs: Indian bowling unit has done well so far. Can they keep up the good work?
South Africa 28/3 in 7.4 overs: Ishant strikes twice, Henry Davids fails to use the chance and Duminy departs for a duck.
South Africa 22/1 in 5 overs: Henry Davids is the new man in.
A lucky break here for India.
After an outside edge goes for four, Amla looking to flick away a full toss from Shami and hits it straight to Yuvraj.
South Africa 22/1 in 4.3 overs: Shami bowls the fifth over as first change, picks up the important wicket of Amla. Hashim Amla departs after scoring 13 runs.
The Proteas have batted first in all three games. Will they get another imposing score here tonight?
South Africa wins toss and decides to bat first.
South Africa team: HM Amla, Q de Kock†, H Davids, AB de Villiers*, JP Duminy, DA Miller, R McLaren, VD Philander, LL Tsotsobe, WD Parnell, Imran Tahir
India team: RG Sharma, S Dhawan, V Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, SK Raina, MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, I Sharma, Mohammed Shami, UT Yadav
Centurion: Having conceded the ODI series with humiliating back-to-back defeats, India will aim to salvage some pride by winning the third one-dayer against South Africa here tomorrow, in order to gain confidence ahead of the two-Test series.
It will be redemption time for Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men at the Super Sport Park after two embarrassing losses in the first two matches which also exposed the famed batting line-up's inability to cope with pace and bounce of the South African tracks.
India suffered a 141-run rout in the first ODI at Wanderers and then another 136-run defeat in the second ODI at Kingsmead. A contest that started with questions about the visitors' bowling line-up has turned into an uncomfortable one about their young batting order.
That aptly describes India's journey from Johannesburg to Durban, and back. In the first ODI, a poor bowling performance was enough to absolve the batsmen of not standing up to some superb South African bowling.
In the second ODI, those excuses vaporized, given that the pitch was considerably slower. Yet the results were alarmingly similar.
