South Africa vs India 2018: 6th ODI, 5 things we learnt from the match

#4 Markram can't latch onto his starts

The stand-in skipper failed to make a big score after getting another start

Life has been moving at quite a fast pace for Aiden Markram. He was just getting into the groove in Tests and in the ODIs as a player, when he was asked to fill in for Captain Faf du Plessis in the series, who was ruled out with injury.

Unlike his Test career, things have not gone Markram's way in the limited over formats and although he got the starts in the series, he was unable to capitalise on them.

In four of the six games, Markram has started off well only to throw it away later. Amidst the flurry of extravagant, good looking shots is a poor hoick or an uppish drive, waiting to send him back to pavilion. At Centurion, it was the drive off Thakur to cover that saw his downfall, which came after a blistering pull shot for six. Markram might want to make use of his starts better.