ABU DHABI (Reuters) – South Africa boosted their possibilities of reaching the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with a six-wicket rout of Bangladesh, who dropped out of the last-four race after their fourth consecutive defeat within the Tremendous 12 stage on Tuesday.
Quick bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje arrange South Africa’s complete win, claiming three wickets apiece to bundle out Bangladesh for 84 in 18.2 overs.
South Africa suffered a mini-collapse however skipper Temba Bavuma made 31 not out to information his workforce dwelling with 39 balls to spare.
South Africa are second in Group I, forward of Australia, after their third win in 4 matches and face table-toppers England of their closing group match on Saturday.
“Rather a lot within the wicket early on,” Bavuma informed reporters.
“Our quick bowlers KG (Rabada) and Nortje had been in a position to exploit that, so good effort with the ball and scientific with the bat.
“We’re blessed to have these sort of men working in with a brand new ball.”
The South African bowlers vindicated Bavuma’s choice to area towards a Bangladesh facet with out all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who has been dominated out https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-cricket-t20worldcup-bgd-idUKKBN2HL0GU of the event with a hamstring harm.
Rabada rocked them early, dismissing Mohammad Naim and Soumya Sarkar off successive deliveries within the fourth over.
Though the bowler couldn’t full a hat-trick in his subsequent over, Rabada dismissed Mushfiqur Rahim to go away Bangladesh in disarray.
Nortje bounced out rival captain Mahmudullah as Bangladesh crawled to 40-5 on the halfway stage of their innings and Tabraiz Shamsi was but to be pressed into service.
Leg-spinner Shamsi, the top-ranked T20 bowler, struck in his first over by dismissing Liton Das for twenty-four and Nortje returned to shine off the tail.
South Africa additionally began poorly as Taskin Ahmed despatched again Reeza Hendricks and Aiden Markram and Mahedi bowled Quinton de Kock to cut back them to 33-3.
Bavuma mixed with Rassie van der Dussen (22), nonetheless, to ease the South Africans to their goal.
“Clearly annoyed,” Mahmudullah mentioned. “We had been very near win two video games. If we might have gained these two video games, it might have been a unique story.”
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in Dubai; modifying by Ed Osmond)
