On Sunday, another blockbuster encounter was played between India and South Africa. This time, the men in blue came with the thought to win another game on Perth to make their path easy for semis.
But the performance of the South African derby was outstanding, and they won the match by 5 wickets. After India lost the match, now Pakistan’s qualification chances is nearly impossible.
The only scenario for Pakistan to make the way into semis is that Pakistan should win their rest of the two games against South Africa and Bangladesh, and India should lose one of their games, then the point of India and Pakistan will be equal, and then the qualifier will be decided on the basis of the Net Run Rate of the teams.
However, with this win, South Africa sealed the top position on the table in group 2 with 5 points, whereas the Indian team is still in the 2nd position in the table with 4 points.
Now, India has to play the next two matches against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, and South Africa will play their next two matches against Pakistan and the Netherlands.
Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first, but his decision backfired, and they lost half of the team on just 50 runs. Star batter Suryakumar Yadav once again proved his brilliance on the bouncy pitch and lifted the sluggish innings of the Indian team by scoring an astonishing 68 runs on 40 balls, helped India to set the respectful total of 133 runs.
Proteas bowler Lungi Ngidi played his first match in this tournament and showed a fantastic performance, where he took 4 wickets, and his teammate Wayne Parnell got 3. Anrich Nortje grabbed 1 wicket.
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In the reply, the Indian bowler also showed a clinical performance and sent the 3 top order batter of Proteas on just 24 runs, but the partnership between Aiden Markram and David Miller of 76 runs in 60 runs ensured that South Africa should chase this low target without any further hiccups. Markram scored 52 runs, whereas Miller played a killer unbeaten innings of 59* runs. From India, Arshdeep took 2 wickets, whereas Mohammed Shami, Hardik Pandya, and Ravichandran Ashwin picked 1-1 wickets each.
