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Africa defeated Netherlands(Netherlands)

T20 World Cup: The 17th match of T20 World Cup 2024 was played between Netherlands  (Netherlands) and South Africa. The South African team won this match. This exciting match between the two teams was organized at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. Where the South African team won the match by 4 wickets. This match between the two teams was a low scoring match. Where the South African team barely escaped a major upset. Batsmen are facing a lot of difficulties in New York. Something similar was seen during both innings of this match.

How was the match?

Like every time, this time also a thrilling World Cup match was seen between South Africa and Netherlands. In the last two World Cups, the Netherlands team defeated South Africa, but South Africa has made a strong comeback in this match. However, it was not easy for South Africa to win this match. In this match, South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl first. The captains who have won the toss at this venue so far have taken this decision. Where the Netherlands team came to the field to bat first and they could score only 103 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. During this, South Africa’s Otniel Bartman bowled brilliantly and he took four wickets for 11 runs in 4 overs. Marco Johnson and Enrique Norkhia took two wickets each.

Run chase was difficult for South Africa
The second innings of the match was full of excitement. South Africa had an easy target of 104 runs. Which they achieved with great difficulty by losing 6 wickets in 18.5 overs. During this, Tristan Stubbs played a match-winning innings of 33 runs and David Miller played a match-winning innings of 59 runs. Apart from these two, no other batsman could do anything. At one point, the South African team lost four important wickets for just 12 runs in this match. David Miller has also been selected as the Player of the Match in this match for his brilliant batting.

Playing 11 of both the teams

Netherlands Playing XI: Michael Levitt, Max O’Dowd, Vikramjit Singh, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Scott Edwards (captain and wicketkeeper), Bas de Leede, Teja Nidamanuru, Logan van Beek, Tim Pringle, Paul van Meekeren, Vivian Kingma.

South Africa Playing XI: Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jensen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Enrique Nortje, Otniel Bartman.