South Africa beats Bangladesh in a low-scoring thriller in T20 World Cup
South Africa beats Bangladesh in a low-scoring thriller in T20 World Cup
New York June 10: In yet another low-scoring thriller at New York, South Africa beats Bangladesh by just 4 runs in an ICC T20 World Cup on Monday. Before that India won a low-scoring match against Pakistan.
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first against Bangladesh. However, the decision of the Proteas turned wrong when they lost 4 wickets for just 23 runs on the board. The first wicket fell off South Africa on 11 runs and Quinton De Kock who was looking in good touch bowled out while attempting a cross-the-line shot over mid-wicket. He ended up losing his wicket at 19 runs. He played a knock of 18 runs from just 11 deliveries. The third and fourth wickets fell on 23 runs.
Then comes Heinrich Klaasen and David Millar. They built the partnership and steadied the ship of South Africa. Klassen scored 46 and Millar 29. Other South African batsmen have not reached the double-figure mark.South Africa finally reached the score of 113 with the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs.
In reply to 113, Bangladesh reached 109 at the loss of 7 wickets and lost the battle by 4 runs.
The contest reached the last over and Keshav Maharaj held the nerves in the last over of the nail-biting finish.
Bangladesh needed 18 runs in 12 balls and its batsmen managed to score 7 runs in the 19th over.
In the final over, Bangladesh required 11 runs in 6 balls and South African skipper Markram gave the ball to Keshav Maharaj to finish the game.
Maharaj held the nerves and took two wickets of Mahamadullah and Jaker Ali in the final over by expending just 6 runs. Markram took a spectacular running catch on the boundary line in an extremely tense situation.
For Bangladesh, Najmul Hossain Shanto, the captain of Bangladesh scored 14 of 23 balls, Towhid Hriday 37 of 34 balls and Mahamadullah 20 runs of 27 balls.
Keshav Maharaj took 3 for 27 in 4 overs, Rabada took 2 wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs and Anrish Nortje 2 for 17.
Bangladesh bowlers Tanzim Hasan Sakib took 3 wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs, Taskin Ahmed 2 for 19 in 4 overs and Rishad Hossain 1 wicket for 32 runs.
EOM.
