After 24 years, South Africa defeated New Zealand in the World Cup.
After 24 years, South Africa defeated New Zealand in the World Cup.: the team had won by 190 runs on the Pune ground. Meanwhile, New Zealand defeated South Africa in five consecutive matches.
South Africa’s Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen scored centuries at the MCA Stadium, while Keshav Maharaj took four wickets. After the win over New Zealand, South Africa took twelve points with six wins in seven matches. The New Zealand team has slipped to fourth place in the points table after its third consecutive defeat in 7 matches.
Now New Zealand will have to win the last two matches to remain in the race for the semi-finals, while South Africa will qualify for the knockouts by winning one of the last two matches. South Africa’s next match will be against India on 5 November. The next game for New Zealand is scheduled for November 4 against Pakistan.
New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first in Pune on Wednesday. In 50 overs, South Africa amassed 357 runs at four wickets. In response, New Zealand was all out after scoring 167 runs in 35.3 overs.
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Key Points: Bowling of Yanson-Maharaj, De Kock-Dusson
After losing the first wicket in the match, De Kock-Dusson’s partnership, Marco Jansen’s bowling in the powerplay and Maharaj’s wicket in the middle overs were the turning points of the match. Read on for some turning points.
- After losing the wicket of captain Temba Bavuma (24 runs) for 38 runs, opener Quinton de Kock made a partnership of 200 runs for the second wicket in 189 balls with Rassie van der Dussen. This partnership contributed significantly in taking the team’s score above 350.
- Yanson’s bowling in the powerplay: Marco Yanson, who came to chase 358 runs, gave two blows to New Zealand in the powerplay. This put pressure on the middle order batsmen of the team, due to which they could not bat openly.
- Maharaj took four wickets in the middle overs. Taking advantage of the pressure of power play, Maharaj gave continuous shocks to the Kiwi team. Daryl Mitchell scored 24 runs, Mitchell Santner scored 7 runs, James Neesham scored 0 runs and Trent Boult scored 9 runs. In front of his bowling, no batsman could play a big innings in the lower middle order.
Pakistan’s hopes alive due to New Zealand’s defeat
New Zealand’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals have suffered a setback after their third consecutive defeat in the World Cup. The team is currently in fourth place with eight points after four wins in seven matches. While South Africa secured the first position with 12 points.
The Kiwi team has its last two matches left against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Pakistan team is currently in fifth place and has six points from three wins in seven matches. Both the teams will face each other in the next match; If Pakistan wins, both the teams will get a total of eight points. Then the team with the best run rate after winning its last match will go to the semi-finals.
New Zealand’s first innings… New Zealand’s average start, 51/2 in batting
It was a bad start for New Zealand, which had set out to chase the target of 358 runs. The team scored 51 runs and lost two wickets in the first 10 overs. Marco Jansson made both mistakes.
In the third over, Yanson sent opener Devon Conway to the pavilion on a personal score of 2 runs. After that, Rachin Ravindra scored 9 runs on the last ball of the ninth over. Yanson took the 12th wicket in the 2023 World Cup Powerplay-1. In his first ten overs in an ODI, he had already claimed 17 wickets.
South Africa scored 350+ for the fourth time in this World Cup
South Africa achieved 357 runs for 4 wickets in 50 overs while batting first. For the fourth time this World Cup, the team scored more than 350.
Rassie van der Dussen (133 runs) and opener Quinton de Kock (114 runs) scored century innings. Both of them made a partnership of 200 runs for the second wicket on 189 balls. David Miller scored 53 runs. New Zealand’s Tim Southee took two wickets. Trent Boult took one wicket.
De Kock scored the 21st century of his ODI career. He scored his fourth century in the World Cup. All four of his centuries were completed in this World Cup. He could not score a century in the 2015 and 2019 World Cups.
De Kock, South African who scored most centuries in a World Cup
Quinton de Kock became the South African to score the most centuries in the World Cup. After him AB de Villiers has 2 centuries to his name. After Kumar Sangakkara, De Kock is second in the list of batsmen who have scored most centuries in the World Cup season. The centuries of both are 4 to 4. India’s Rohit Sharma has scored five centuries in this record.
Not only this, he became the first South African batsman to score more than 500 runs in a single season of the De Kock World Cup.
202 runs and 3 wickets fell in the last 20 overs.
South African batsmen won the last 20 overs. South African batsmen scored 202 runs after losing 3 wickets from 31 to 50 overs. De Kock and Duson both completed their centuries after Duson was caught on the fourth ball of the 36th over. Even in the death overs, David Miller played an explosive inning of 53 runs on 30 balls. In the 50th over, Aiden Markram scored 357 runs by hitting a six.
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