WI Won Low Scoring Match – South Africa Vs West Indies T20 World Cup 2016 Batting & Bowling Highlights & Results:
Match 27 comes our way with an absolute thriller. The deciding match would decide whether West Indies will be the first team to be the part of semi-final from Group 1. Whether, the South Africa will still cling on the chances to stay alive in WC 2016.
The Vidharbha Stadium is set for the exciting battle between West Indies and South Africa. Interesting match coming our way between Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers.
South Africa vs West Indies
South Africa – The batting looks brutal, right from the openers till the finish, they’re just amazing. Starting from in-form Quinton de Kock, Hashim Amla, AB, Faf, the batting never ends.
On other side, bowling has been struggling. Even against Afghanistan bowling had struggled a lot. So, it will be necessary for every bowler to step on.
West Indies – WI are neither back though, in-form Gayle gets back into contest. Other batsmen also have step-up into contest, it will be an interesting batting show tonight.
Playing on Nagpur bowling pitch, the Suliemann Benn and Badree will get great grip on the pitch. WI look a slight ahead of South Africa with bowling. How will all they work together will be an interesting watch.
South Africa Vs West Indies T20 World Cup 2016 Match Highlights Batting & Bowling
Toss – West Indies won the toss, opted to bowl first.
1st innings – After losing the toss, South Africa didn’t have expected to have such a bad start. Losing Hashim Amla and du Plessis in first 2 overs, brought great pressure on the SA’s. They lost Rilee on 20 and South Africa had just the worst start ever.
At the end of batting powerplay, South Africa were 39/3. AB helped Quinton de Kock to form a little partnership, but end up losing his wicket at 4/46 in 8th over. Due to the Quinton’s 47 and Wiese 28, South Africa reach an okay target of 122/8 in 20 overs.
2nd innings – Getting a target of 123 in 20 overs, South Africa managed to take a quick and important wicket of Chris Gayle on just the 5th ball of the over. West Indies managed to score 37/2 in 6 overs.
WI cruised ahead scoring boundaries, but kept on losing wickets on crucial part of the wicket. Not having enough partnership, Marlon Samuels alone set to be the backbone of WI innings scoring 44 in 44 balls.
The equation came down to 9 runs to win in 6 balls. WI easily scored by 6 of the 2nd ball and winning the match by 3 wickets.
T20 World Cup 2016 South Africa Vs West Indies Scorecard
1st innings batting scorecard –
| Sr. No | Batsmen | Runs | Balls | S.R. | 4 & 6 |
| 1 | Hashim Amla | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 & 0 |
| 2 | Quinton de Kock | 47 | 46 | 102.17 | 3 & 1 |
| 3 | Faf du Plessis | 9 | 7 | 128.57 | 0 & 1 |
| 4 | Rilee Rossouw | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 & 0 |
| 5 | AB de Villiers | 10 | 12 | 83.33 | 1 & 0 |
| 6 | David Miller | 1 | 4 | 25.00 | 0 & 0 |
| 7 | David Wiese | 28 | 26 | 107.69 | 2 & 0 |
| 8 | Chris Morris | 16 | 17 | 94.11 | 2 & 0 |
| 9 | Aaron Phangiso | 4 | 5 | 80.00 | 0 & 0 |
1st innings bowling scorecard –
| Bowler | O | R | W | ECO | DOTS |
| Samuel Badree | 3 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 | 9 |
| Andre Russell | 4 | 28 | 2 | 7.00 | 11 |
| Chris Gayle | 3 | 17 | 2 | 5.75 | 9 |
| Carlos Brathwaite | 2 | 11 | 0 | 5.20 | 3 |
| Suliemann Benn | 4 | 20 | 0 | 5.00 | 8 |
| Dwayne Bravo | 4 | 20 | 2 | 5.00 | 12 |
2nd Innings batting scorecard –
| Sr. No | Batsmen | Runs | Balls | S.R. | 4 & 6 |
| 1 | Johnson Charles | 32 | 35 | 91.42 | 2 & 1 |
| 2 | Chris Gayle | 4 | 2 | 200.00 | 1 & 0 |
| 3 | Andre Fletcher | 11 | 11 | 100.00 | 0 & 1 |
| 4 | Marlon Samuels | 43 | 44 | 97.72 | 6 & 0 |
| 5 | Dwayne Bravo | 8 | 6 | 133.33 | 1 & 0 |
| 6 | Andre Russell | 4 | 8 | 50.00 | 0 & 0 |
| 7 | Darren Sammy | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 & 0 |
| 8 | Carlos Brathwaite | 10* | 10 | 100.00 | 0 & 1 |
| 9 | Denesh Ramdin | 1* | 1 | 100.00 | 0 & 0 |
2nd Innings bowling scorecard –
| Bowler | O | R | W | ECO | DOTS |
| Kagiso Rabada | 3.4 | 38 | 1 | 10.36 | 10 |
| Chris Morris | 4 | 32 | 1 | 8.00 | 10 |
| Imran Tahir | 4 | 13 | 2 | 3.25 | 12 |
| David Wiese | 4 | 19 | 1 | 4.75 | 11 |
| Aaron Phangiso | 4 | 19 | 1 | 4.75 | 11 |
T20 World Cup 2016 – South Africa Vs West Indies Match Result
South Africa – 122/8 (20 overs)
West Indies – 123/7 (19.4 overs)
Man of the Match – Marlon Samuels (43 off 44)