India vs South Africa, T20I series: Best combined XI of the series

4. Temba Bavuma

For a long period of time, Temba Bavuma has been in and around the side as a promising talent. Perhaps this is the time for him to get out of those shoes and start taking bigger responsibilities and his performance in this series could be a good start for what is to come later on. Bavuma played a couple of great second-fiddles to De Kock in these two games.

After a valiant 49 off 43 deliveries in the Mohali game, he helped his skipper see the game through in Bengaluru, piling up a 23-ball 27. His assured presence in the middle will come in very handy in the coming years, especially with a lot of senior players heading towards the retirement doors.

5. Shreyas Iyer

With every passing series, fans keep putting more pressure on the Indian team to give Shreyas Iyer the chance he deserves to take the number four spot. Once again, Rishabh Pant was preferred above the Mumbaikar and once again, the move didn’t pay its dividends.

Iyer couldn’t get a lot of time to spend in the middle in Mohali but hit the winning runs. Something more was expected from him in the final game, but he misread Fortuin’s delivery and got stumped for just five. Perhaps the time has come for Kohli to give him the position he wants and show he’s the best bet in that position for the team.