Despair for Nepal as South Africa stay unbeaten with conclusive ball win
Nepal took out of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup as South Africa keep up with their unbeaten status in a thrill ride.
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Despair for Nepal as South Africa stay unbeaten with conclusive ball win
Heinrich Klaasen pulled off a run out from the last conveyance to assist South Africa with staying unbeaten at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup and take Nepal out of dispute for a spot in the Super Eights with a completely exhilarating one-run win over the Asian side in St Vincent on Friday.
Nepal required two runs for triumph from the last ball to keep their expectations alive of arriving at the Super Eights and Klaasen stayed mentally collected to run out Gulsan Jha at the non-strikers end as the match seemed made a beeline for a Really Finished.
It was a horrible method for completing for Nepal, who were the better side for a large part of the outright exhilarating challenge as their spinners ruled with the ball to decrease South Africa to 115/7 and their top-request searched in charge in answer when they came to 85/2 in the fourteenth over and the expected rate well reachable.
In any case, South Africa spinner Tabraiz Shamsi (4/19) turned the game the Proteas' way and speed couple Anrich Nortje (1/27) and Ottneil Baartman (0/20) held their nerve while bowling the last two overs as South Africa clutched deny Nepal their very first worldwide triumph over a full ICC part side.
South Africa should improve during the following period of the competition if they have any desire to coordinate it with the opposition heavyweights as they were well underneath their best for a large part of the Nepal match.
Opener Reeza Hendricks (43) was their main player to invest an extensive energy in the center, while Tristan Stubbs (27* off 18 balls) was their only hitter to get done with a strike rate more than 100 as Nepal's spinners ruled as the Proteas posted a complete scarcely north of 100.
Kushal Bhurtel (4/19) and Dipendra Singh Airee (3/21) divided seven wickets among them and Nepal's pursuit showed up well in charge until Shamsi's late spell left eight runs expected from the last finished.
Gulsan tracked down the limit from the third bundle of the last finished, yet Klaasen thought of the game dominating play toward the finish to permit South Africa to win.
Groups:
South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Mill operator, Marco Jansen, Tabraiz Shamsi, Kagiso Rabada, Ottneil Baartman, Anrich Nortje
Nepal: Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheik (wk), Anil Sah, Rohit Paudel (c), Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Sompal Kami, Gulshan Jha, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Abinash Bohara
