South Africa vs Nepal ICC T20 World Cup 2024: South Africa’s team has defeated Nepal’s team by one run. Nepal captain Rohit Paudel won the toss and decided to bowl first. South Africa, batting first, gave Nepal a target of 116 runs. Nepal needed 8 runs to win in the last over, then Nepal’s team could score only 6 runs. Nepal player Gulshan Jha was run out on the last ball. In this way South Africa won the match. After losing the match, Nepal’s team is out of the Super-8 race in T20 World Cup 2024.
South Africa won the match on the last ball
Nepal did not have a good start against South Africa. When Kushal Bhurtel got out after scoring just 13 runs. After this, captain Rohit Paudel could not even open his account. But then Asif Sheikh and Anil Kumar batted well. Both of them tried to stay on the wicket for some time. Anil Kumar became the victim of Aiden Macram after scoring 27 runs. Asif Sheikh played a fighting innings of 42 runs, but he was out on the ball of Tabrez Shamsi. Dipendra Singh Airy scored 6 runs. Sompal Kami scored 8 runs in 4 balls. Nepal’s team needed 2 runs to win on the last ball. Then Gulshan Jha was run out.
Kushal Bhurtel took four wickets for Nepal
For South Africa, except Reeza Hendricks, no player could show a strong game. He scored 43 runs in 49 balls in the match. Apart from him, Tristan Stubbs scored 27 runs. The rest of the batsmen could not contribute much. Captain Aiden Markram got out after scoring 15 runs, Quinton de Kock 10 runs and David Miller 7 runs. South Africa scored 115 runs in 20 overs. Kushal Bhurtel bowled brilliantly for Nepal. He took 4 wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs in the match. Dipendra Singh Airee took 3 wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs. Both these bowlers did not let the South African batsmen play big strokes.
Nepal team out of the race for Super-8
After losing the match against South Africa, Nepal’s team is out of the Super-8 race in the T20 World Cup 2024. The team has played three matches so far, out of which the team has lost 2. At the same time, one match of the team was canceled. Now the Nepal team has to play a match against Bangladesh on June 16.
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