07/10Result
4th Match (D/N), ICC Cricket World Cup at Delhi, Oct 7 2023
South Africa won by 102 runs
Player of the Match
Aiden Markram
Aiden MarkramSouth Africa
07/10Result
4th Match (D/N), ICC Cricket World Cup at Delhi, Oct 7 2023
South Africa won by 102 runs
Player of the Match
Aiden Markram
Aiden MarkramSouth Africa

END OF OVER:
50 | 9 Runs | SA: 428/5 | RR: 8.56

  • Marco Jansen12 (7b)
  • David Miller39 (21b)
  • Dilshan Madushanka10-0-86-2
  • Kasun Rajitha10-1-90-1

A gargantuan ask for Sri Lanka. Their chase will start soon. Madushka will start calling the action. Stick around.

Let's list some records: This is the third 400+ score at a WC for SA

Markram has the fastest ODI WC hundred

Hammad: "Unless SL wins this, SA will top the table "

Rassie van der Dussen: Perfect day with bat. Swung up front, we worked hard in the middle overs. Was hot. But we had a blueprint in recent times. QDK's play in such times is unbelievable. Was special to watch Miller, Markram too. They found a nice length, into the wicket. Luckily I got through that patch. It's difficult to say if we can get more 400s, we just bat according to conditions, as we did today. Klaasen, Markram, Miller are the best hitters and they showed it today. Game's only halfway done, bowlers will have seen how it's going and will take learnings.

6:13pm That innings was like a fan-fiction written by someone who was compensating for a bad day, surprised it's over. Was hard not to think it'd never end an hour or so ago. Three hundreds: from de Kock, van der Dussen, and then Markram. Rajitha and Pathirana go over 90, Madushanka and Wellalage go over 80. Still hard to make sense of what happened but the bowling didn't seem that bad. But it didn't bring about wickets. QDK and VDD found their groove gradually. The switch flicked around the 23rd over. They took on anything remotely in their zone and made it look like the whole of Delhi was part of their zone. Markram's hitting was the cleanest, set up by the earlier centuries but it was phenomenal to watch him adjust to the many changes Shanaka made with the choices and the bowlers with their deliveries. Miller finished off in style to take them just ten short of the 438 from Johannesburg.

Diyath: "Can we say this was as a result of great batting, a conducive pitch after a while, or bad bowling? Feels the bowling wasn't terrible enough to concede 400 alone" Yep

49.6
1
Madushanka to Jansen, 1 run, Very full, just outside off. With Jansen's front foot out the way, he had to reach out to drive it to long-off
49.5
1
Madushanka to Miller, 1 run, Makes room and gets followed with a yorker. Jammed into the pitch, jumps over the bowler en route to long-on
49.4
1
Madushanka to Jansen, 1 run, Yorker on leg stump. Jansen showed all three stumps and Madushanka nailed the line. Whipped off the toe to backward square leg
49.3
1
Madushanka to Miller, 1 run, Tries to chop it again, but plinks the back of lengther towards point

Umar: "Fifty for Miller?"

49.2
4
Madushanka to Miller, FOUR, Makes room and smacks it over short third. As free as hits get. He was standing on the leg-stump tramline and reached out to the cut the ball, over fourth-stump, with a lunge across. Not middled but well placed
49.2
1w
Madushanka to Miller, 1 wide, Full toss at pace goes just down leg, past Miller who'd made a bit of room. Good stop by the keeper
49.1
0
Madushanka to Miller, no run, Miller drives the full ball to cover. Single not taken

END OF OVER:
49 | 23 Runs | SA: 419/5 | RR: 8.55

  • Marco Jansen10 (5b)
  • David Miller33 (17b)
  • Kasun Rajitha10-1-90-1
  • Dilshan Madushanka9-0-77-2
48.6
6
Rajitha to Jansen, SIX, Makes a lot of room and launches down the ground, oh it's a proper liftoff but far too. Over long-off for the six that brings up the highest World Cup team total, surpassing Australia's 417 against Afghanistan in 2015. Ball was on a length and Jansen looked to have made too much room, but that reach is next level
48.5
1
Rajitha to Miller, 1 run, Slow and full. Just outside off, driven to mid-off. Rajitha doing the little he can amid the carnage
48.4
6
Rajitha to Miller, SIX, That's an EA Cricket cover drive. Very full ball, around the off-side tramline, Miller reached out and lashed it flat over the ropes
48.4
1w
Rajitha to Miller, 1 wide, Tad wider. Rajitha misses his mark again but he's still trying to bowl to a plan. Miller's standing in front of off btw
48.4
1w
Rajitha to Miller, 1 wide, Goes for the wide yorker again, it's a low full toss that angles away too far. Miller lets it go
48.3
1
Rajitha to Jansen, 1 run, Very low full toss at the shoes, worked to deep square leg. 129kph. Two balls of respite for Sri Lanka
48.2
1
Rajitha to Miller, 1 run, Wide yorker nailed. Miller goes across and drills it to point

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Sri Lanka 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1MDKJ PereraP Nissanka
2nd66MDKJ PereraBKG Mendis
3rd42BKG MendisS Samarawickrama
4th2S SamarawickramaKIC Asalanka
5th39DM de SilvaKIC Asalanka
6th82MD ShanakaKIC Asalanka
7th1MD ShanakaDN Wellalage
8th58MD ShanakaCAK Rajitha
9th31CAK RajithaM Pathirana
10th4D MadushankaM Pathirana