South Africa thumped defending champions England to safe a formidable 229-run victory within the 20th match of the World Cup 2023 on Saturday.
Batting first at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, the Proteas took English bowlers to the cleaners piling up a large complete of 399 runs courtesy of Heinrich Klaasen’s blistering 109-run knock. England nevertheless, have been bowled out within the 22nd over at 170 runs.
With six factors, South Africa are ranked quantity three on the factors desk as they’ve gained three contests out of the 4 matches performed within the event to date.
Chasing the 400-run goal, England have been on their approach to struggling a 300-run defeat however a valiant effort by their tailenders, Gus Atkinson and Mark Wooden, saved them as each batters constructed a 70-run partnership with the latter scoring an unbeaten 43 runs on 17 deliveries.
England have been on their approach to struggling a 300-run defeat however a valiant effort by their tailenders, Gus Atkinson and Mark Wooden, saved them as each batters constructed a 70-run partnership with the latter scoring an unbeaten 43 runs on 17 deliveries.
Not a single English batter might maintain their nerves and fell badly in entrance of the devastating Proteas’ bowling assault as three of their 4 top-order batters — Dawid Malan, Joe Root and Ben Stokes — failed to attain in double digits.
Wooden emerged as the highest scorer for England with 43 runs as your complete English aspect was despatched again to the pavilion for simply 170 runs after dropping wickets in fast succession.
All the South African bowlers — Lungi Ngidi, Marco Jensen, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj and Gerald Coetzee — wreaked havoc on the English batters and despatched all of them again to the pavilion.
Earlier within the day South Africa — batting first — posted a large 399-run complete courtesy of a formidable batting show of their high and center order.
Regardless of dropping an early wicket of Quinton de Kock for simply 4 runs within the first over, the Proteas didn’t falter and continued to play with an attacking mindset as Reeza Hendricks and Russie van der Dussen constructed an necessary 121-run partnership.
The remaining harm to the English bowlers was carried out by the 151-run stand between Klaasen and Marco Jensen.
Klaasen scored a speedy century, scoring 109 runs off simply 67 delivers with 16 boundaries whereas Jensen contributed 75 runs off simply 42 delivers, which included a blistering knock of 9 boundaries.
For England, Reece Topley picked three wickets whereas Gus Atkinson and Adil Rashid bagged two every nevertheless it was not sufficient in entrance of the harmful Proteas batting.
South Africa will now play Bangladesh on October 24 on the similar venue whereas England will tackle Sri Lanka in Bengaluru on October 26.