Today South Africa vs West Indies Match 15 Preview ICC Cricket World Cup 10 June 2019. Check South Africa vs West Indies, World Cup 2019, 15th match Match Timings, scoreboard, ball by ball commentary, updates. It all seemed nice for the hosts, but the experienced Jacques Kallis pounced on Dwayne Bravo as soon as he was brought on and smashed him for 18 runs in an over. AB de Villiers, opening the batting, too upped the pace and the fifty was raised in 58 balls. Chris Gayle broke the stiff 170-run stand as Kallis was out for 81. De Villiers completed his hundred off 114 balls, but pummelled 46 runs in his next 16 balls before departing for 146. South Africa muscled 152 runs in the last 11 overs as Boucher made an unbeaten 23-ball 52.
The West Indies couldn’t handle the pressure of a big chase and were reduced to 119/4. Sarwan though fought valiantly and made a 75-ball 92, while he found a surprised support from Daren Powell, who scored 48 runs off 36 balls. The target was well beyond West Indies’ reach and the loss meant they needed South Africa to lose both their remaining games to have an outside chance of progressing further in the tournament. Eventually, Brian Lara ended his career without a World Cup.
All you need to know ahead of South Africa’s Cricket World Cup battle against West Indies at the Rose Bowl. De Villiers got his eye in and took off as soon as the batting powerplay was enforced after 35 overs. He completed his fifty off 30 balls and was unflinched when Rilee Rossouw – who also made a fifty – and David Miller departed. He raced to a hundred off just 52 balls in the 48th over – the second fastest World Cup hundred ever. But he didn’t stop. He took a special liking to his counterpart, of whom he muscled a whopping 64 runs in his final two overs, thereby giving Holder the infamous record of second most expensive figures (1/104) in World Cups. De Villiers recorded the fastest ever 150 (off 64 balls) in the history of the game.
409 was too big a target even though West Indies amassed 373 in their previous game against Zimbabwe. Kyle Abbott got two wickets in his first two overs and Imran Tahir was took hot to handle as he became the first South African spinner to take a five-wicket haul in World Cups. The Proteas’ 257-run win was the joint-highest victory margin by runs in the mega event
West Indies Squad: Jason Holder (c), Chris Gayle, Evin Lewis, Shai Hope (wk), Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer, Andre Russell, Carlos Brathwaite, Ashley Nurse, Kemar Roach, Sheldon Cottrell, Oshane Thomas, Shannon Gabriel, Fabian Allen, Nicholas Pooran
South Africa: Faf du Plessis (c), Aiden Markram, Quinton de Kock (wk), Hashim Amla, Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller, Chris Morris, Andile Phehlukwayo, JP Duminy, Dwaine Pretorius, Dale Steyn, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Tabraiz Shamsi
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