SA vs NEP: The 31st match of the T20 World Cup 2024 was played between South Africa and Nepal, in which the African team escaped defeat by just 1 run to Nepal. Nepal could not win against Africa. But they gave a tough fight to Africa which was many times stronger. But Nepal lost to the experience of Africa. With this victory of the African team, they remained invincible in Group D. In such a situation, let us tell you how was the condition of this match

Nepal bowlers wreaked havoc in SA vs NEP match

• Nepal won the toss and decided to bowl first against South Africa (SA vs NEP) at the Arnos Vale ground in Kingstown on Saturday.
• His decision proved to be correct.
  South Africa batted first and set a target of 116 runs for Nepal at the loss of 7 wickets.
• Reeza Hendricks scored the highest 43 runs for the team. Nepal's bowlers Kushal Bhurthel and Dipendra Singh Eri played an important role in restricting Africa to such a low score.
• Together, they took seven wickets of South Africa. Kushal took 4 wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs. While Deependra Singh took three wickets.

Nepali team's struggle

• A target of 116 runs is not a very big target in T20 cricket.
  But it was a challenging target for Nepal against the penetrating bowling of South Africa (SA vs NEP).
• Nepal had achieved this target to a large extent. But in the end, everything changed.
• Nepal, which came out to chase the target given by the African team, got a very solid and precise start.
• Nepal suffered a setback in the form of Kushal Bhurtel. But wicketkeeper-batsman Asif Sheikh kept the team's innings going.

Such was the thrill of the last over

• At one point Nepal needed 25 runs to win in the last 5 overs.
  They had 7 wickets in hand.
• The match was turning in Nepal's favour. After this, 16 runs were needed from 9 balls. The chances of victory for both the teams were fifty-fifty.
• Nepal tried. In the end, 2 runs were needed from 2 balls to win. The match was extremely exciting.
• At the same time, South Africa's experience proved to be too much for Nepal (SA vs NEP). Nepal could not score a single run in the last 2 balls.
• The result was that South Africa won this match by just 1 run.

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Shamsi took the most wickets

• Chasing the target of 116 runs, Nepal (SA vs NEP) wicketkeeper-batsman Asif Sheikh scored 42 runs off 49 balls.
• Sheikh became the highest run scorer for the team. Apart from him, Anil Shah scored 27 runs and Kushal Bhurtel scored 13 runs.
• Shamsi took the most wickets, 4. Enrique Nortya and Aiden Markram took wickets. Both took 1-1 wickets.

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