South Africa beat WI by 3 wickets in a heart-stopping match, entered the semi-finals

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Tezzbuzz|24-06-2024

South Africa won the ODI match against Sri Lanka on Monday (June 24) at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. T20 World Cup In the Super 8 round match of 2024, India defeated West Indies by 3 wickets and entered the semi-finals of the tournament. In this match, South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first, after which West Indies Set a target of 136 runs for the African team to win.

It rained during the African team's innings, due to which, under the Duckworth Lewis rule, the African team got a target of 123 runs in 17 overs. However, once again the African team became nervous in the virtual knockout match and almost choked, thanks to Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen who made their team win in the last over by making a partnership of 14 runs for the 8th wicket. With this victory West Indies was eliminated from the tournament and the African team topped its group and entered the semi-finals.

Batting first in this match West Indies The start was bad and Shai Hope and Nicholas Pooran were out and returned to the pavilion with a total score of 5 runs. After this, Roston Chase and Kyle Mayers together added 81 runs for the third wicket. Chase scored 52 runs in 42 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes, while Mayers scored 35 runs in 34 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. Apart from these two, no other player could stay on the crease. Due to which South Africa could score only 135 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Tabrez Shamsi took 3 wickets while bowling brilliantly for South Africa. Apart from this, Marco Jansen, Kesh Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada and captain Aiden Markram took 1-1 wickets.

After this, the South African team, which came to chase the target, also lost the wicket of Reeza Hendricks in the second over. At one time, the African team also lost its 6 wickets for 100 runs and the match had reached a thrilling situation but Marco Jansen scored an unbeaten 21 runs in 14 balls and gave his team the victory. Apart from Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen scored 22 and Tristan Stubbs also played a valuable innings of 29 runs. At the same time, West Indies Roston Chase was the most successful bowler for India. He took 3 wickets for 12 runs in his three overs but unfortunately his brilliant bowling also failed West Indies Could not make him win.

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