🏏ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026: S 8 - M43: India vs South Afrika🏏 - Page 52

All were catch out today!! Hope they learn and bang back in next two games… performance of this team hasn’t been great so far in this tournament…

India annihilated

Stop press. India’s victory streak in T20 World Cups was halted at 12 by the side they stole one from in the final of the last World Cup. After a surprise call to bat first, South Africa recovered from 20 for 3 to post 187 and then launched just about the perfect defence both with tactics and execution in significant dew to secure a 76-run win, which could have significant net-run-rate implications as well.

David Miller and Dewald Brevis started the comeback with some special hitting to balance Jasprit Bumrah’s 3 for 15 with analysis of 4-0-47-1 for Varun Chakravarthy. Even though they lost muscle just before the death overs, Tristan Stubbs took 20 to give South Africa something to work with.

Given the dew and the improvement in batting conditions after the first four overs, 187 seemed light, but almost everything they tried with the ball worked. Aiden Markram bowled the first over and had an India opener out for a duck, Ishan Kishan this time. Marco Jansen had a wicket first ball, Lungi Ngidi was unhittable with his slower balls, Keshav Maharaj produced three boundary catches in one over, the catching was sensational, and the biggest partnership they allowed was 35.

10:36pm Wow. That was a proper pasting. This may have been billed as a final before the final, but only one team seemed to come to play tonight. Nothing went right for India post their bowling powerplay, and that was only amplified through their batting innings, with none of their batters getting into any sort of rhythm.

SA deserve plenty of credit for it. They assessed the conditions and utilized it superbly. Markram got the ball rolling with Kishan's wicket in the opening over. Jansen then came to the party, as did others, and SA kept picking up wickets, while also keeping the Indian batting unit under check. A night to forget for India, but they will want to take plenty of learnings from this.

David Miller, Player of the Match:

Just about making sure you stick to your strengths and don't go into your shell. During the powerplay, all fielders were in the ring so thought of going over. Trying to get a partnership as much as we could, and trying to rotate strike. (Main scoring areas) With the nature of this ground, you want to look straight. Smaller there than square. Want to shape up to hit straight and then react. Looking to be nice and aggressive against the spinners. They have world-class bowlers. Have played against them a lot, trying to put them under pressure and about putting yourself in the position to do that.

WC 2026 winner SA

Mark it.

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Originally posted by: Rosyme

I doubt they can win against WI. They r power hitters.

Originally posted by: catchm-ifucan

Zor ka Jhatka hai zoron se laga...hai laga....

Dekhiye. Jhatka toh Dube saab ne diya hai. Sir scored 42 runs - double digit number after a while.

even if India wins the next two, qualification is doubtful with the kind of NRR we reached

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