ICC World Cup 2019
Match 21 - South Africa Vs Afghanistan
Proteas crushed the desperate Afghans
One of the strong contestant of ICC WC 2019 South Africa facing continuous failures in this world cup. Some how they got one point in last match just because of rain. They are aiming for their first ever win in this tournament against the Afghans. Obviously its easy for them, but in case something happen in reverse may send South Africans back to their home. But nothing happened like that. As expected South Africa won the match by crushing the small Afghans eventhough the match was interrupted by rain. First time in their history they won the match after the interruption from rain.
First batted Afghanistan survived only for 34 overs lost all their wickets and scored only 125 runs. Zazai, Noor Ali and Rashid Khan were the only three afghan batsmen scored double digit in this match. Except them remaining batsmen not even crossed 10 runs. Phelukwayo (2wickets) and Morris (3 wickets) bowled consistently and gave 31 runs from 14 overs. But express Tahir picked 4 wickets and became man of the match too.
South Africa need to chase the easy target with maximum remaining balls to increase their run rate. But they focused only the win. Amla played test innings and De cock played ODI innings.Amla remained not out for 41 runs and Decock gone for 68 runs. They both batted 25 overs but didnt even score a single six. Andile Phelukwayo came as no3 show some cameo and finished the match. He scored 17 runs with 2 boundaries and 1 six. Rashid Khan didnt make any impact with his ball.
Man of the Match: Imran Tahir
Some how South Africa registered their first win in this tournament. Now Protea fans may be happy that their team wont finish at bottom. With this win South Africa climbs two spot up and standing at 6th position ahead of Bangladesh and Pakistan by a greater run rate. But Protea played 5 matches now. Still they have 4 matches and need win from all to qualify for semi finals. But hereafter only they have big challenge like Australia, England and NewZealand. It seems like their world cup dream came to an end now itself. Most probably they can finish the league either at 6th spot or 7th spot.
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