IND-W vs SA-W 3rd T20I Highlights: India women beat South Africa by 10 wickets, level series 1-1

And there it is. Smriti Mandhana finishes off in style with a six over square leg. India win this with 10 wickets in hand and level the series 1-1. Fifty for Mandhana with that six and India hunt down this total in just 10.5 overs. They will now head to the Asia Cup.

India are bossing this again and are little away from winning it. They need 20 from the last 66 balls and have all the 10 wickets in hand. A win is around the corner.

South Africa are looking to pull things back. After the 10-run opening over, they have conceded only 8 runs from the next three overs. Kapp and Chloe Tryon have been disciplined in their line and lengths. India 18/0 after 4

The run-chase is on. India make a fine start to the second innings. Mandhana takes Ayabonga Khaka for two fours in the opening over. India 10/0 after 1

And India have bowled South Africa out for just 84. Pooja Vastrakar gets the final wicket in the form of Eliz-mari Marx. Vastrakar gets her 4th.

Still not much for South Africa. They are at 80/5 after 15 overs and need a lot of work to do for a strong total.

Vastrakar strikes again! She gets Bosch for a 14-ball 17. Pitched on a good length on the off-stump. The batter shuffled to glance it but is beaten all ends up. She reviews but is gone with all three reds. Now she strikes once again. Two in the over for Vastrakar. She cleans up Nadine de Klerk. The batter looked to cut this, but there was not much room for her to do so. It ricochets off the inside edge onto the stumps. SA 61/5 after 11. India bossing this now

Good stuff from India. They have got the Proteas three down and have kept a lid on the scoring rate too. South Africa have managed to put 57/3 in the opening 10 overs. Chloe Tryon and Anneke Bosch are at the crease on 4 and 13, respectively.

Harmanpreet Kaur takes an extremely good low catch at mid-off. This removes the half-centurion of the previous two matches Brits for 20 off 23. SA 45/3 after 8

The powerplay is done and India would be feeling they are ahead at the moment. Despite some boundaries, they have kept the Proteas to 39/2 after 6 overs. Two big wickets and India would sense they can get more now.

Vastrakar gets Kapp to send South Africa two down now. A back-of-a-length delivery into the body of the batter, who tried pulling it but did not get the middle of the bat. This went straight to mid-wicket and India have two inside the powerplay. SA 30/2 after 5

Shreyanka comes in for her first over in the 4th and strikes straight-away, getting the big wicket of captain Wolvaardt. This was pitched on the middle and forced the Proteas captain to come out of the pitch. She did not get enough on the bat and skied it to mid-off, where Arundhati takes an easy one. South Africa 27/1 after 4

11 from the second over with two boundaries. Over-pitched deliveries are hurting India. The half-centurion from the previous two matches Brits presses one fuller ball in gap in covers before Wolvaardt goes aerial for a four on the off side for another boundary.

Captain Wolvaardt finds a four in the first over, a swipe towards mid-wicket on a slightly shortish ball. South Africa women 6/0 after 1 over

Two South African openers - Wolvaardt and Tazmin Brits are in the middle. Pooja Vastrakar has the new ball in hand. And off we go. 

Only once before India women have lost a Bilateral T20I series to South Africa, the 1-2 loss to the Proteas in 2021 at home. Can they avoid another loss today?

"India's spinners picked up wickets by pulling the lengths back a touch. Similar surface to that day. Brilliant batting track, not a lot of cracks. There is some rain expected. We might also see some extra bounce. 180-190 should be a good score" says Shebani Bhaskar in her pitch report.

 Laura Wolvaardt(c), Tazmin Brits, Marizanne Kapp, Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Anneke Bosch, Annerie Dercksen, Eliz-mari Marx, Sinalo Jafta(w), Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba

Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Uma Chetry(w), S Sajana, Pooja Vastrakar, Shreyanka Patil, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav

We would've had a bat, we did well twice while batting first so we'd have done the same. Very happy to have put up decent scores two games in a row. A series win would put the cherry on the top. Last game for us to try and get a few combinations right before the T20 World Cup. Same team.

We're going to bowl first, looking at the conditions we'd like to bowl. We've bowled really well apart from the last two overs, we were in the game. We fielded well too, want to take those things into this game. Looking at the side, we have a balanced side. Having players like these is a great opportunity for us. Same team.

Harmanpreet Kaur has won the toss and has opted to bowl first. She says looking at the conditions, we will be bowling first. She says the team bowled well in the previous game (washed out) apart from the final two overs. She confirms there are no changes in India's team today.

There is rain predicted in the evening in Chennai. There are chances of rain but it is clear as of now.

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the India women vs South Africa women's 3rd T20I at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. After bossing the complete home tour, India women find themselves in hot waters of losing the T20I series to the Proteas. They went down in the opening T20I on Jul 5, before rain washed the second one on July 7. They hope for the weather to stay away from this one as they look to level the series and avoid a loss. Stay tuned as we bring you this game in Chennai.