ICC World Cup 2019
Match 8 - India Vs South Africa
Quite Interesting game
Almost 7 matches over in ICC World cup 2019. Every team played atleast one match except India, some teams played 2 matches. Among those teams South Africa is also one, they played two matches and lost both. Today they played their third match in this tournament against India. Were India gonna play their first match in this tournament. Both team desperately need a win, for South Africa its like a must win match. Because if they loss it will be a problem in qualifying semi finals. For India, they are consider as one of the team who can lift trophy, surely they will focus to start the tournament with a win. Lets see who won the match and opened their points account.
South Africa won the toss and decided to bat first. In last two matches they bat 2nd and forced to chase the 300+ target which creates pressure while chasing. So they decided to bat first. South Africa added Amla for Markram and Shamshi for injured Ngidi. Both Miller and Duminy played in this match. From India Bhuvi and Bumrah started the bowl. Both bowled a excellent spell. Particularly Bumrah, he showed why he is the top bowler in world now. Proteas struggled to face his ball not even had contact with bat. Bumrah removed both the openers Amla and Decock with the help of slip. The only hope of South Africa, Faf Du plesis came to bat and joined with Dussen. Both actually played good at crucial condition. When they came to bat the score was 24-2, but both taken the score to 78 runs for next wicket. Twin Spinners Chahal and Kuldeep take care of middle order batsmen. Chahal was on fire and took 4 wickets. He bowled both Faf and Dussen. South Africa doesnt have any plan whether to save wicket or increase run rate. Towards the end of innings Chris Morris did a good knock by scoring 42 runs from 34 balls which helps South Africa to score 227/9 at the end of 50 overs. Phelukwayo and Rabada scored 34 and 31 runs. Chahal took 3, Bumrah and Bhuvi took 2, Kuldeep took 1 wicket.
228 runs is a chasable target in these days. The Blue squad started the chase with their usual openers Shikar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma. Both were not in good form for the past 6 months. Dhawan will always perform well in ICC tournaments. But Rohit??? They both faced Imran tahir in the first over itself. Rabada and Morris started the spell from 2nd over. Rabada was on fire his bowling was ferocious as like as Morne. South Africa get three close catches of these openers in this spell. But cant make it as wicket. Finally Rabada took Shikar Dhawan for 8 runs. Then Number 1 ODI rank batsman Virat Kohli joined with No2 ODI batsman Rohit. Both slowly increased the score. Kohli gone for 18 runs and Rahul gone for 26 runs. In the mean time rohit crossed his fifty. He played slowly and regained his form. Dhoni supported him well at last and scored 34 runs. Rohit Sharma gets his century just before the departure of Dhoni. Hardik pandya came to bat, he didnt waste any time hit two consecutive boundaries and finished the match at 48th over. Rohit remains not out with 122 runs from 144 balls with 13 boundaries and 2 sixes. Chris Morris and Rabada bowled well, both together gave 75 runs only from 20 overs. Rabada picked 2 wickets. But Morris bowled exceptionally gave 36 runs from 10 overs with a wicket of Dhoni.
India opened their points table in first match itself. While South Africa lost 3 match continuously. Still they have 6 more. Atleast 5 need to qualify for semi finals. Proteas have to face Australia, West Indies, New Zealand and Pakistan. Hope they can easily win Afghanistan and Sri lanka.
Man of the Match: Rohit Sharma
Both team scored runs in same manner, Both bowlers did job perfectly, both of their runrate was closer Still India won the match. How???? The biggest difference between India and South Africa in this match is the "spinners". Indian spinners Chahal and Kuldeep picked 5 wickets from 97 runs. South African spinners gave 102 runs with no wickets. Everyone thought Shamshi will be the key for South Africa but he didnt make any impact.
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