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Live Score India vs South Africa 4th ODI South Africa in India 2015.Virat Kohli scored his first ODI hundred since India's World Cup opener on March 15.• Virat Kohli featured in century partnerships with Ajinkya Rahane and Suresh Raina.• The contest is now level at 2-2, with Sunday's final game in Mumbai serving as an appetising decider. 

Live Score, India vs South Africa, 4th ODI, South Africa in India 2015

virat Kohli was desperate to end a run of 12 completed innings without a century dating back to India's World Cup opener on March 15 and his determination translated into a 23rd ODI hundred that laid the basis for a 35-run win. In 17 previous matches against South Africa he had never reached three figures, and his mission was completed after his 138 set up India's series-levelling victory at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Thursday. But not without a fright from AB de Villiers, whose awe-inspiring 112 threatened to seal the series for South Africa.
In the end, Kohli's 23rd ODI hundred proved to be a shade better effort than De Villiers' 22nd ton in the final context of the match. If Kohli's innings was about asserting his supremacy in the limited overs format, De Villiers was innovation personified hitting all round the wicket.Credit should be given to India's spin troika of Harbhajan Singh (2/50), Axar Patel (1/40) and Amit Mishra (1/55) for using the conditions well along with pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar (3/68), who got the prize scalp of opposition captain.
The series will now be decided at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium in the final ODI scheduled to be played on October 25.De Villiers battled cramps to race to century but his superb 107-ball-112 could not get the Proteas home. The South African skipper hit 10 fours and two sixes fighting valiantly before a slow bouncer from Bhuvneshwar saw him try a flat batted shot which ended up as a thickish edge into Mahendra Singh Dhoni's hands.
It was De Villiers' dismissal in the 45th over that decisively tilted scales in India's favour. When the chase started, Hashim Amla's (7) woeful run in the series continued as he pulled one straight to Shikhar Dhawan at mid-wicket.
ver 47 | Score 251/9 (Rabada 1; Tahir 0)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar double-strike hastened India's winning surge in Chennai. He first removed Aaron Phangiso off the third delivery, with Axar Patel completing the catch at short third man.
WICKET: Aaron Phangiso c Axar Patel b Bhuvneshwar Kumar 20 (22b)Then, Dale Steyn also perished trying to hit big off the fifth delivery. Ajinkya Rahane took a good catch at backward square leg.WICKET: Dale Steyn c Ajinkaya Rahane b Bhuvneshwar Kumar 6 (7b)Five runs from the over, and South Africa need 49 runs from 18 balls with a wicket in hand. Imaran Tahir and Kagiso Rabada are in the centre.
Over 41 | Score 204/6 (de Villiers 89; Phangiso 3)
Amit Mishra into the attack, and Aaron Phangiso took a single, then a single to AB de Villiers. Phangiso wasted two deliveries, before taking another single. A wild turn in the last delivery, and a single for AB, keeping the strike. Four runs from the over. South African need another 96 runs from 54 balls.

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