In the principal match of the Very 8 phase of the Global Cricket Chamber (ICC) T20 World Cup, South Africa crushed the USA by 18 runs.
Pursuing South Africa’s objective of 195 runs, the American group figured out how to score 176 runs for the deficiency of 6 wickets in the apportioned overs.
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In the match played in Antigua, North Sound in West Indies, America won the toss and invited South Africa to bat.
South Africa’s innings
South Africa had a disheartening beginning to the innings and lost their most memorable wicket toward the beginning of the innings at a complete score of 16.
From that point onward, de Cook and commander Aiden Markram batted mindfully and made ready for the enormous objective by framing an organization of 110 runs.
In the allotted 20 overs, South Africa scored 194 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. Quinton de Cook scored 74 and Aiden Markram scored 46 runs while Klaasen stayed unbeaten with 36 runs.
USA’s Saurabh Natravakar and Harmeet Singh took two wickets each.
America’s innings
In South Africa’s target of 195 runs, the start of the innings from the US side was steady and the first wicket fell to Taylor on 33 runs.
After that, Nitish, Jones, Corey Anderson and Shayan Jahangir returned to the pavilion scoring 8, zero, 12 and 3 runs respectively.
Andreezgos and Harmeet batted aggressively and scored 91 runs in the sixth wicket partnership to bring the team back into the match, but Hermeet was caught out after scoring 38 runs. Andreezgos’ unbeaten innings of 80 runs went in vain and the US team was allotted 20 overs. I could score 176 runs for the loss of 6 wickets and thus he had to face defeat by 18 runs.
South Africa’s Rabada dismissed 3 players while Quentin de Cook of the winning team scored 74 runs and was declared the player of the match.