South Africa has registered its second victory in T-20 World Cup cricket. South Africa defeated the Netherlands by 4 wickets in the match on Saturday night.
After winning the toss and batting first in the match in New York, the Netherlands managed to score only 103 runs after losing 9 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. To find this target, the team had to play 18.5 overs.
All the Dutch batsmen who came to bat earlier were flops. Apart from Sibrand Engelbrecht, other batsmen could not play a big innings. Seabrand scored 40 runs off 45 balls. Apart from this, Van Beek also contributed 23 runs off 22 balls and the team managed to cross one hundred runs.
Otniel Baartman bowled brilliantly for South Africa. He took 4 wickets for 11 runs in a spell of 4 overs.
South Africa got off to a poor start in chasing the target. Two of the team’s best batsmen, Quinton de Kock and captain Aiden Markram, were dismissed without opening their accounts. Opener Riza Hendricks could also score only 3 runs. Heinrich Klaasen could score only 4 runs.
However, after this David Miller and Tristan Stubbs shared 65 runs for the fourth wicket and handled the innings. Stubbs played an innings of 33 runs. Similarly, David Miller remained unbeaten with 59 runs off 51 balls.
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