South Africa, which often misses big opportunities, did not miss it against West Indies. Defeating West Indies by 3 wickets in a rain-affected match, it has confirmed its place in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2024. In this way, the names of two semi-finalists from Group 2 of Super-8 have now been decided. Before South Africa, England became the first team to reach the semi-finals by defeating USA.

In the match against South Africa, the hosts West Indies batted first and scored 135 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In this crucial match, apart from Roston Chase and Kyle Myers, no other batsman from West Indies did anything special. The partnership of 81 runs in 65 balls between these two was the only result that the Caribbean team was able to reach the 135 run mark.

Tabrez Shamsi took his 300th wicket

South Africa's spinner Tabrez Shamsi played a big role in restricting West Indies to 135 runs. He took 3 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs. During this time, he also completed his 300 wickets in T20 cricket. Apart from Shamsi, Jansen, Markram, Maharaj and Rabada got 1-1 wickets. South Africa tried a total of 6 bowlers in this match, in which everyone got wickets except Norkhia.

South Africa's target changed due to rain

Now South Africa had a target of 136 runs, chasing which South African team had scored only 15 runs for 2 wickets in 2 overs when the match had to be stopped due to rain. After this, when the match resumed, the overs were cut and a new target was set for South Africa by Duckworth Lewis. With the reduction of 3 overs, now South Africa got a new target of 123 runs in 17 overs, out of which they had already scored 15 runs. Meaning now they had to score 108 runs in the remaining 90 balls.