SA beat WI Highlights - T20 World Cup: South Africa beat West Indies

SA beat WI Highlights – T20 World Cup: Aiden Markram, Dwaine Pretorius shine as South Africa thrash West Indies by 8 wickets to claim 1st win of T20 WC 2021 – Dwaine Pretorius’s three-wicket haul followed by fifty by Aiden Markram helped South Africa thrash West Indies by 8 wickets to claim their first win of the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 here at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai on Tuesday. With this win, South Africa has moved to the 4th spot in group 1.

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SA beat WI Highlights – T20 World Cup: Chasing a below-par total of 144, got off to the worst possible start as their captain Temba Bavuma was run-out on 2 in the very first over. Courtesy of the excellent effort by Andre Russell. After the 1st wicket, Reeza Hendricks and Rassie van der Dussen took South Africa’s innings forward with 50 runs partnership. Hendricks scored 39 runs in 30 balls with the help of four boundaries and one six. He was removed by Akeal Hosein thanks to a beautiful catch by Shimron Hetmyer.

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Rassie van der Dussen then took the innings forward with a partnership along with Aiden Markram. Dussen scored 43 runs in 51 balls with the help of 3 boundaries while Markram played the aggressive role with 25 balls 51. His innings were studded with 4 sixes and 2 fours.

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Earlier, Evin Lewis smashed a quickfire half-century before West Indies lost the plot to manage a modest 143 for eight against South Africa in a Super 12 match of the ICC T20 World Cup on Tuesday.

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Lewis (56) and Lendl Simmons (16) got West Indies off to a flier. The duo put on 73 runs off 63 balls for the opening stand before West Indies lost wickets at regular intervals.

SA beat WI Highlights – T20 World Cup: Lewis did the bulk of the scoring in the partnership. He showed his aggressive intent from the beginning, hitting Kagiso Rabada for a boundary over backward point and then lofted the bowler straight over his head in the next ball. Next it was Aiden Markram’s turn to face Lewis’ wrath as the batter struck two sixes and a four in successive balls to garner 18 runs in the fifth over.

Lewis then smashed Anrich Nortje over mid-off but a ball later the bowler induced a thin edge from Simmons which wicketkeeper Henrich Klaasen failed to hold. Lewis was in ominous form as he didn’t spare a single South Africa bowler. He brought up his fifty in style, slog sweeping Tabraiz Shamsi over deep square-leg to reach the landmark in just 32 balls.

Lewis continued in the same vein after his fifty and clobbered Keshav Maharaj for a six but finally perished a ball later in search of one too many, holed out to Rabada at deep midwicket. He struck three fours and six sixes during his 35-ball knock. Two more quick wickets, somewhat, put a brake on West Indies’ charge after the brilliant start given by Lewis.

SA beat WI Highlights – T20 World Cup: Aiden Markram, Dwaine Pretorius shine as South Africa thrash West Indies by 8 wickets to claim 1st win of T20 WC 2021

But Simmons stay was a struggle as his 35-ball innings was the joint-longest in terms of balls without a boundary in the men’s T20 World Cup. Nicholas Pooran (12 off 7) stay was short-lived as he became Maharaj’s second victim, caught by David Miller and then Simmons was castled by Rabada in the next over.

SA beat WI Highlights – T20 World Cup: Shamsi was taken to task by West Indies skipper Kieron Pollard and Chris Gayle, hitting the left-arm spinner for a six each in the 16th over. Gayle’s run-a-ball 12 knock was cut short by Dwaine Pretorius before Andre Russell was cleaned up by Nortje in the next over. Shimron Hetmyer was run out a ball later to compound West Indies problems. Pollard made 26 off 20 balls but failed to push up the scoring towards the end.

West Indies Innings 143/8 (20 ov)

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Lendl Simmons	b K Rabada	16	35	0	0	45.71
Evin Lewis	c K Rabada b KA Maharaj	56	35	3	6	160.00
Nicholas Pooran (WK)	c DA Miller b KA Maharaj	12	7	2	0	171.43
Chris Gayle	c H Klaasen b Dwaine Pretorius	12	12	0	1	100.00
Kieron Pollard (C)	c HE van der Dussen b Dwaine Pretorius	26	20	2	1	130.00
Andre Russell	b A Nortje	5	4	1	0	125.00
Shimron Hetmyer	runout (H Klaasen / DA Miller)	1	2	0	0	50.00
Dwayne Bravo	Not out	8	5	1	0	160.00
Hayden Walsh	c RR Hendricks b Dwaine Pretorius	0	1	0	0	0.00
Akeal Hosein	Not out	0	0	0	0	0.00
Extra	7 (b 0, w 4, nb 1, lb 2)
Total	143/8 (20)
Yet To Bat	R Rampaul

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON
Aiden Markram	3	1	22	0	7.33
Kagiso Rabada	4	0	27	1	6.75
Anrich Nortje	4	0	14	1	3.50
Keshav Maharaj	4	0	24	2	6.00
Tabraiz Shamsi	3	0	37	0	12.33
Dwaine Pretorius	2	0	17	3	8.50

Fall Of Wickets	FOW	Over
Evin Lewis	1-73	10.3
Nicholas Pooran	2-87	12.2
Lendl Simmons	3-89	13.2
CH Gayle	4-121	17.1
AD Russell	5-132	18.2
Shimron Hetmyer	6-133	18.4
Kieron Pollard	7-137	19.2
Hayden Walsh	8-137	19.3

South Africa Innings 144/2 (18.2 ov)

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Temba Bavuma (C)	runout (AD Russell)	2	3	0	0	66.67
Reeza Hendricks	c Shimron Hetmyer b AJ Hosein	39	30	4	1	130.00
Rassie van der Dussen	Not out	43	51	3	0	84.31
Aiden Markram	Not out	51	26	2	4	196.15
Extra	9 (b 0, w 8, nb 0, lb 1)
Total	144/2 (18.2)
Yet To Bat	H Klaasen, DA Miller, Dwaine Pretorius, KA Maharaj, K Rabada, A Nortje, T Shamsi