ICC World Cup 2019
Match 30 - South Africa Vs Pakistan
Worst ever tournament for Protea
Before the commencement of ICC World cup 2019, Proteas alias South Africa was considered as one of the team who can able to lift the trophy. But today they were about to finish at last before position in this tournament. This prediction is not usual for them. From 1992 onwards each and every tournament protea will be considered as strong contestant. But every time they ends up with failure. There may be lot of reason for their failure. Every time they cant blame the rain, they have to accept their lack of confidence when coming to big tournaments. The team under Faf Du plesis are not strong as much as like team under Abd. They have to accept this truth. Yesterday after the loss against Pakistan, Dale Steyn gave an interview like "Participating in domestic tournaments like IPL affect their players health as well as their form". It may be true because its a big tournament almost they played 45 days continuously. But this alone not be the reason behind their failure.
Protea faced pakistan in a do or die match and lost it by 49 runs margin. Their lack of plan against each player results in Pakistan scoring 308 runs at the end of 50 overs. South African bowlers didnt threat Pakistan batsmen much in yesterdays game. Pakistan slowly scored the runs without any pressure from the bowling side. Once pakistan looks like scoring 250 runs as target. But South african middle over bowlers failed to controlled Harris Sohail, he smashed Morris and Phelukwayo and scored 89 runs from 59 balls. This was the first game changing moment of the match. His blistering knock helped pakistan to set a challenging target to South Africa. Except Imran Tahir all other South African bowlers went expensive. Here we agree Steyn's statement.
South Africa bowling lost his elegance in this tournament which result in opponent scoring more than 300. But South African batting completely eradicated now. Except Faf Du plesis and Van der Dussen no other batsmen played like significant, not even decently. Expected Quinton Decock too failed to score big. In this match also their worst form continued. Faf alone scored half century, but he gone for 63 runs while trying to attack Amir at 30th over. Decock supported a bit by scoring 47 runs from 60 balls which is less than his average ability. Dussen and miller made 30+ but not sufficient a middle order while chasing a big target. All rounder Andile Phelukwayo alone fought at one end with 46 runs from 32 balls. He remains not out till end. But other batsmen lost their wicket and South Africa scored 259/9 at the end of 50 overs. Shadab Khan and Riaz grabbed 3 wickets each, where Amir took 2 wickets.
Man of the Match: Harris Sohail (89 runs from 59 balls with 9 boundaries and 3 sixes)
Now South Africa left with only two matches, if they win both also, they will finish the tournament with only 7 points. England were at 4th position now with 8 points. So there wont be any chance for South Africa to enter semi finals. Faf and his team finished their worst tournament in South African cricket history. On the other side Pakistan made their entry into semi finalist competition. Australia, New Zealand and India having maximum chances to finish at top 3. England alone sitting like a cat on wall with 3 matches pending that too against the above three teams. If England lost all the three matches either Sri lanka or Bangladesh or Pakistan will get chance to enter semi. I think the match between Pakistan and Bangladesh will be the deciding factor of 4th semi finalist. Lets ready to witness the huge match between the asian teams.
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