{"id":40417,"date":"2024-06-24T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T06:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=40417"},"modified":"2024-06-24T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T06:52:39","slug":"south-africa-beat-west-indies-by-three-wickets-reaches-t20-world-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world-cup-2024\/south-africa-beat-west-indies-by-three-wickets-reaches-t20-world-cup-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa beat West Indies by three wickets reaches T20 World Cup semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANTIGUA: In a Super Eights encounter impacted by rain on Sunday, South Africa defeated the West Indies by three wickets to advance to the T20 World<\/a> Cup semi-finals and eliminate the hosts.<\/p>\n

South Africa faltered to 110-7 when Roston Chase claimed three wickets in their chase of a revised 123 off 17 overs, but they managed to reach their mark when Marco Jansen struck the opening ball of the last over for six.<\/p>\n

At the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua, South Africa won the toss and held the West Indies to 135-8 thanks to a performance by player of the match Tabraiz Shamsi, who finished with 3-27.<\/p>\n

All-rounder Chase top scored with 52, featuring in an 81-run third-wicket partnership with Kyle Mayers (35 off 34 balls) before giving the West Indies hope by taking 3-12 with his off-spin.<\/p>\n

Jansen’s unbeaten 21 saw the Proteas to victory at 124-7 when he smashed the final six off Obed McCoy.<\/p>\n

“The last time I played here I went for 50 runs and there was a lot of chatter going around,” said Shamsi.<\/p>\n

“I was happy to come back and perform my role, but credit as well to the guys who bowled before me because they set it up beautifully.”<\/p>\n

Brought in for seamer Ottneil Baartman, the left-arm wrist-spinner got excellent support from fellow slow bowlers Keshav Maharaj (1-24) and captain Aiden Markram (1-28).<\/p>\n

Chase was dropped on 11 by Anrich Nortje and made the most of his luck, clearing the ropes twice and hitting three fours.<\/p>\n

His partnership with Mayers helped rescue the hosts after they fell to 5-2 in the second over.<\/p>\n

Once Shamsi removed Mayers to a sliced catch at deep cover, a steady stream of wickets enabled South Africa to restrict the West Indies.<\/p>\n

With the score on 117-6, Nortje made amends for his earlier error with a direct hit to run out the dangerous Andre Russell who had hit two sixes in his 15 off nine balls.<\/p>\n

“This is one batting performance we will try our best to forget,” said West Indies captain Rovman Powell.<\/p>\n

“It was a commendable bowling effort by us. We said at the halfway mark that we were going to give it our all and the guys gave everything to defend that total.”<\/p>\n

Winning captain Markram admitted to nerves during the tense chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANTIGUA: In a Super Eights encounter impacted by rain on Sunday, South Africa defeated the West Indies by three wickets to advance to the T20 World Cup semi-finals and eliminate the hosts. South Africa faltered to 110-7 when Roston Chase claimed three wickets in their chase of a revised 123 off 17 overs, but they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18058],"tags":[18945,18946,18947,18157],"class_list":["post-40417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-world-cup-2024","tag-sa-beats-west-indies","tag-south-africa-beat-west-indies-by-three-wickets","tag-t20-world-cup-semi-finals","tag-world-cup-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}