Number eight Corbin Bosch hit the winning boundary in his unbeaten 29 as South Africa achieved the target with four balls and four wickets to spare in Raipur.<\/p>\n
The three-match series, level at 1-1, moves to the decider on Saturday in Visakhapatnam.<\/p>\n
Kohli, who made 102 for his 53rd hundred in the ODI format, put on 195 runs for the third wicket with Ruturaj Gaikwad, who hit 105, as India posted 358-5.<\/p>\n
In reply, opener Markram put on 101 runs for the second wicket with captain Temba Bavuma (46) to lay the foundations for the joint-highest target chased down against India. Australia chased down 359 in 2019 in Mohali.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think it\u2019s a record chase and I think it shows how well we need to play against this Indian side,\u201d said Bavuma.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of confidence that we can take from this game… I think we set it up to be an exploding series.\u201d <\/p>\n
Markram, who survived a dropped catch on 53, lost partner Bavuma in the 21st over but kept firm to raise his fourth ODI ton in 88 balls.<\/p>\n
Pace bowler Harshit Rana dismissed Markram on a slower ball to raise the noise of the 60,000-capacity packed stadium.<\/p>\n
Dewald Brevis, who hit 54 off 34 balls, joined Matthew Breetzke, who made 68, and the two kept the chase on track in their fourth-wicket partnership of 92.<\/p>\n
Brevis reached his maiden ODI fifty with a six off Kuldeep Yadav but the left-arm wrist spinner had his revenge next ball to get the batsman caught out at long-on.<\/p>\n
Breetzke was next to go after Krishna trapped him lbw and Arshdeep Singh dismissed Marco Jansen (2) in the next over.<\/p>\n
Windies collapse on day 2 | 00:55<\/p>\n
There was more drama when Tony de Zorzi went retired hurt on 17, clutching his hamstring in pain after taking a run with Bosch, who then kept calm to take the team over the line alongside Keshav Maharaj (10 not out).<\/p>\n
Earlier, Kohli was on fire, taking on the opposition bowlers after India lost Rohit Sharma for 14. The in-form batter began his scoring with a six off pace bowler Lungi Ngidi.<\/p>\n
Jaiswal fell for 22 after he handed India a brisk start, but Kohli and Gaikwad steadied the innings and then took the attack to the opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cVirat, we have seen him do it 53 times — he just goes about doing his job,\u201d said India skipper KL Rahul.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was beautiful watching Rutu (Gaikwad) bat, the way he picked up the tempo after reaching his fifty.\u201d <\/p>\n
Both looked fluent as they struck regular boundaries and Gaikwad reached his maiden ODI ton with a boundary.<\/p>\n
Gaikwad departed but Kohli went on to register his 84th century across the three international formats as fans stood up to applaud.<\/p>\n
Kohli finally fell to Ngidi and walked back to a standing ovation, before Rahul hit an unbeaten 66.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Kohli only plays the 50-over format these days after he and fellow stalwart Rohit, 38, retired from T20 and Test cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli\u2019s second successive century went in vain as South Africa rode on a 110 by Aiden Markram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-325665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}