Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

RA Herman
63(36) 3x4 - 4x6
Control %92%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 28 runs
  • 2x4 - 3x6
4 0 0 3 29 18 4 5
BJ Bennett
BJ Bennett
61(43) 7x4 - 3x6
Control %68%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 14 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
5 5 5 5 7 7 15 12

Best performances - Bowlers

C Bosch
O4
M0
R16
W2
Eco4
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
TT Maposa
O4
M0
R38
W2
Eco9.5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Sreshth and Ekanth

A one-sided contest on the weekend to decide the finalists. A couple more games in what should be a great atmosphere before the final in six days. Hope to see you for that. For now, it's goodbye from me Ekanth, my co-commentator Sreshth Shah, and our scorer M Venkat Raghav.

Rassie van der Dussem, SA captain Overall improvements in all aspects. Seamers were great, spinners were a touch expensive but the death bowling was excellent. Rubin was excellent. Our ground fielding needs to improve. We're letting things slip in the middle overs with the ball. Can't fault the performance with bat. The thing for us this series is experimenting with the side, we'll look at the series as a 3-match series. We're 1-0 down vs NZ, looking to equal that and win the final. Been tough for the bowlers with the shorter boundaries. Love playing here, second time here, you can still hear the ground. Informed crowd.

Rubin Hermann, POTM Disappointed I couldn't finish the game off, but that's just being hyper-critical. I'm just trying to back my instincts, keep a clear head and see what happens from there. I've focused on playing balls as late as possible. There's a lot of batsmanship involved on these pitches with inconsistent bounce and pace. There's a shorter boundary. I played good cricket shots, that's as best I can explain the success.

Sikandar Raza, Zimbabwe captain At one point, I thought 160 was a decent total. But we just cannot catch a break. Chasing gets easier, but that's no excuse. We had a lot of dots (58 in total), need to improve. SA showed how to. Bat on ball would've gone. a long way. Gotta stay calmer. Even 20 more runs, and you never know. Spinners is an area of concern, leading with me. I would start with myself, that confidence would go a long way. Batting was better, hopefully we'll get it all together against NZ.

4:11pm South Africa through to the final along with New Zealand. They'll have a dress rehearsal in a couple of days. A clinical win for SA today. Zimbabwe started well with the ball, a couple of early wickets from Maposa. But Hermann and van der Dussen got low-risk options in the powerplay. They pounced on the spinners, who skidded the ball through but often missed their lines. Hermann's flat-batting fetched boundaries downtown and over the leg side. The skipper played second-fiddle and with the equation not daunting, Zimbabwe were out of the races well before the early finish.

17.3
1w
Gwandu to Brevis, 1 wide, Another bouncer, Brevis makes room and looks for the ramp over slips. It's too high, so lets it go. Called wide. That'll be it for Zimbabwe this series
17.2
0
Gwandu to Brevis, no run, Gwandu gets a bouncer to zip, Brevis was going for another pull but realised he couldn't and fell onto his knee in installments
17.1
6
Gwandu to Brevis, SIX, Pulled with might to level the scores. It's back of length and Brevis read it very early, got upright in the crease and launched it from fourth stump over midwicket

Seven needed, Gwandu to bowl what could be the final over of the day

END OF OVER:
17 | 9 Runs | SA: 138/3 (7 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.11, RRR: 2.33)

  • Rassie van der Dussen52 (41b)
  • Dewald Brevis7 (5b)
  • Tinotenda Maposa4-0-38-2
  • Richard Ngarava4-1-21-1
16.6
2
Maposa to van der Dussen, 2 runs, First risk vdD's taken in a while, gets an edge that falls safe. He looked to drive the full ball downtown for six, got it in the gap around backward point
16.5
1
Maposa to Brevis, 1 run, Looks to slog it across from fifth stump. Bat turns inwards, gets it to deep midwicket on a bounce or two
16.4
1
Maposa to van der Dussen, 1 run, Length on middle, glances to deep fine leg to bring up the captain's fifty. A breezy second-fiddle innings

South Africa 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st6RR HendricksLG Pretorius
2nd16RR HendricksHE van der Dussen
3rd106HE van der DussenRA Herman
4th17HE van der DussenD Brevis