South Africa beat West Indies: South Africa has defeated West Indies. In the match played in Ahmedabad, South Africa won the match by a huge margin of 9 wickets. The explosive innings of its captain Aiden Markram played a big role in this victory of South Africa. Quinton Dickock and Ryan Rickleton also helped him a lot in this work. By defeating West Indies, South Africa has not only fulfilled its intention of reaching the semi-finals, but has also done a favor to the Indian team. With South Africa’s victory, India’s hopes of playing the semi-finals have increased.
West Indies’ run rate dropped after losing to South Africa
West Indies had set a target of 177 runs for South Africa to win, chasing which South Africa won the target with 23 balls left. South Africa won this match in 16.1 overs and with that has further strengthened its claim for the semi-finals. At the same time, after the defeat of 9 wickets, the run rate of West Indies has also fallen from 5.35 to 1.791.
Will India play semi-finals after South Africa’s victory?
After defeating West Indies by 9 wickets, South Africa has now become the top team in the points table of Group A of Super-8. With this, he has also made India’s path to the semi-finals easier. Now the fate of India is in his hands. To reach the semi-finals, India will have to win only its next two matches against Zimbabwe and West Indies.
South Africa won against West Indies with a brilliant game
The West Indies team had made a fast start by batting first in the match. But after that his top order wickets also fell at the same pace. But then there was a partnership between Jason Holder and Romario Shepherd, which took the team to the score of 176 runs in 20 overs. Looking at West Indies’ past performance, it seemed that they would pose a challenge to South Africa in chasing the target. But the way the South African batsmen made noise from the beginning, it became difficult to stop them.
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