The West Indies’ formidable bid for a 3rd Twenty20 World Cup title resulted in heartbreak on Sunday night time after they had been eradicated from their dwelling match following a tense three-wicket defeat to South Africa of their last Tremendous Eight match.
Enjoying on a two-paced pitch on the Vivian Richards Cricket Floor, West Indies had been restricted to 135 for eight from their 20 overs. All-rounder Roston Chase was the one batsman to indicate vital enterprise, top-scoring with 52 off 42 deliveries.
Left-hander Kyle Mayers, making his first look of the match after being referred to as up as an harm substitute for Brandon King, struck 35 from 34 balls however struggled for fluency, and no different batsman managed to move 15.
South Africa’s run chase started with drama as they slumped to fifteen for 2 after simply two overs. Rain then halted play for about an hour, forcing a revised goal of 123 from 17 overs and a restart of the competition at 11:45 p.m.
With each groups preventing to remain within the match, the match turned a struggle of attrition. Tristan Stubbs top-scored for South Africa with 29 from 27 balls, Heinrich Klaasen chipped in with a quickfire 22 off 10 balls, and Marco Jansen produced a nerveless 21 not out from 14 balls, deflating the Caribbean facet.
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Excellent spells
Beginning the ultimate over from left-arm pacer Obed McCoy needing six runs for victory, Jansen cleared the ropes at long-on with the very first supply, propelling his facet into the semi-finals together with England from Group 2.
Chase adopted up his batting effort with a wonderful spell of three for 12 from three overs of off-spin, whereas seamers Andre Russell (2-19) and Alzarri Joseph (2-25) contributed with excellent spells.
“I feel while you look on the bigger image, it’s a disappointing World Cup. We wished to win identical to another group, however we weren’t in a position to win tonight,” stated a dejected captain Rovman Powell. “I feel as a group we performed some good cricket. We performed good cricket in patches and tonight was an evening the place our batters had been 15-20 runs quick on a troublesome wicket.”
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He continued: “We’re disenchanted. We as gamers are disenchanted as a result of we predict we had the personnel inside our room to really win a house World Cup. However having stated that we’ve performed good cricket, we’ve entertained [the fans] in patches.”
Despatched in to bat, West Indies suffered two vital setbacks inside the primary seven balls of their innings when stroke-makers Shai Hope (0) and Nicholas Pooran (1) perished cheaply. Hope sliced the third ball of the sport from seamer Jansen to cowl level the place Stubbs held a pointy catch, whereas Pooran skied to Jansen on the ropes at long-off within the subsequent over, hitting out towards off-spinner Aiden Markram.
Chase held the innings collectively
Not for the primary time, Chase held the innings collectively, hanging three fours and two sixes whereas posting 81 for the third wicket with Mayers, who notched an an identical boundary rely. Nonetheless, with the run fee stalling, Mayers holed out within the deep within the twelfth over off Man-of-the-Match left-arm spinner Tabraiz Shamsi (3-27), triggering a collapse that noticed West Indies lose six wickets for 32 runs within the house of 35 balls.
Confronted with a simple required run fee of almost seven an over, South Africa had been rapidly in hassle when Russell knocked over harmful openers Reeza Hendricks (0) and Quinton de Kock (12) in his first over – the second of the innings. Rain added to the strain, however Stubbs placed on 27 for the third wicket with captain Aiden Markram (18) after the resumption, and an additional 35 for the fourth with Klaasen, who whacked three fours and a six – all from left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie’s solitary over within the seventh, which leaked 20 runs.
At 92 for 4 on the finish of the eleventh over, South Africa appeared to have wrested management of the competition with simply 31 runs wanted from the final six overs. Nonetheless, Chase eliminated David Miller (4), Stubbs, and Keshav Maharaj (2) in successive overs, giving West Indies one final sniff.
Jansen and Kagiso Rabada (5 not out), who had earlier collided on the ropes at long-off trying a catch, then collaborated to take South Africa over the road.
