ABU DHABI: Pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada stood out with figures of 3-20 to help South Africa boost their semi-final hopes at the Twenty20 World Cup with a six-wicket win over Bangladesh here at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Rabada and individual speedy Anrich Nortje divided six wickets among them to skittle out Bangladesh for only 84 in 18.2 overs in Abu Dhabi. South Africa lost four wickets yet captain Temba Bavuma hit an unbeaten 31 and guided the group home in 13.3 overs for the third success from four Super 12 matches. Taskin Ahmed returned figures of 2-18 however Bangladesh retired from the race for the last four in the wake of losing all their four matches. Rabada came to all weapons bursting after South Africa chose for field first and sent back Mohammed Naim, for nine, and Soumya Sarkar, in vain, to be on a full go-around. Mushfiqur Rahim denied Rabada his third progressive wicket on the primary chunk of his next finished however got out three conveyances later without scoring. Bangladesh experienced another twofold blow when Nortje guaranteed captain Mahmudullah Riyad's valued scalp for three and Afif Hossain tumbled to Dwaine Pretorius for a duck. Likewise read: South Africa's De Kock apologizes, says will take a knee in future
Bangladesh slipped to 34-5 and the wickets continued to tumble with Nortje and leg-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi dividing five wickets among them as South Africa wrapped up the Bangladesh innings in 18.2 overs. Mahedi Hasan top-scored with 27 preceding being gotten and bowled by Nortje. In answer, South Africa tumbled to 33-3 after Aiden Markam was excused in vain by Taskin however Rassie van der Dussen, who made 22, and Bavuma set the pursuit back on target. The pair put on 47 runs for the fourth wicket before Nasum Ahmed got van der Dussen out. David Miller came to hit the triumphant limit as South Africa made it three successes in succession after their initial misfortune to Australia who are third in the table drove by unbeaten England. With four successes from four, England is essentially guaranteed a spot in the semi-finals, leaving South Africa and Australia as the fundamental competitors for the second spot in the gathering. In the meantime, Kagiso hailed South Africa's persuading prevail upon Bangladesh.
"What we have shown is that we have had various people stand up in various games and I believe that has been the key, we are proceeding collectively. Happy we convincingly won today," said Rabada.
"If I can add to the group's prosperity I'll take it, regardless of whether I am not taking wickets," said Rabada."But on an individual note, it's nice to take wickets particularly forthright in the powerplay making advances, that is the thing that we endeavor to do. "I'm chuffed, yet I am surely not going to contemplate cricket tomorrow until we need to prepare once more, however, when the opportunity arrives we will pull together and plan for England [on Saturday]. Also, it will be a decent game," the pacer added. Mahmudullah communicated his failure at the outcomes Bangladesh has delivered so far in the occasion. "It's disappointing, however, we might have dominated two matches," Mahmudullah said of his group's misfortunes including two close matches against Sri Lanka and West Indies. "On the off chance that we had dominated those matches, it would have been an alternate story." Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are currently most certainly out of the situation in Group 1 with West Indies just left with a remote possibility of progress.
Scoreboard
BANGLADESH:
Mohammad Naim c Hendricks b Rabada 9
Liton Das lbw b Shamsi 24
Soumya Sarkar lbw b Rabada 0
Mushfiqur Rahim c Hendricks b Rabada 0
Mahmudullah Riyad c Markram b Nortje 3
Afif Hossain b Pretorius 0
Shamim Hossain c Maharaj b Shamsi 11
Mahedi Hasan c and b Nortje 27
Taskin Ahmed run out (Bavuma) 3
Nasum Ahmed hit wicket b Nortje 0
Shoriful Islam not out 0
Additional items (LB-1, NB-2, W-4) 7
Complete (hard and fast, 18.2 overs) 84
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-22 (Naim), 2-22 (Soumya), 3-24 (Mushfiqur), 4-34 (Mahmudullah), 5-34 (Afif), 6-45 (Liton), 7-64 (Shamim), 8-77 (Taskin), 9-84 (Mahedi)
BOWLING: Maharaj 4-0-23-0; Rabada
4-0-20-3 (2nb, 3w); Nortje 3.2-0-8-3 (1w); Pretorius 3-0-11-1; Shamsi 4-0-21-2
SOUTH AFRICA:
Q. de Kock b Mahedi 16
R. Hendricks lbw b Taskin 4
R. van der Dussen c Shoriful b Nasum 22
A. Markram c Naim b Taskin 0
T. Bavuma not out 31
D. Mill operator not out 5
Additional items (B-4, LB-1, W-3) 8
Complete (for four wickets, 13.3 overs) 86
Didn't BAT: D. Pretorius, K. Rabada, K. Maharaj, A. Nortje, T. Shamsi
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-6 (Hendrick), 2-28 (de Kock), 3-33 (Markram), 4-80 (van der Dussen)
BOWLING: Taskin 4-0-18-2 (1w); Shoriful 4-0-15-0 (1w); Mahedi 2.3-0-19-1; Nasum 2-0-22-1 (1w); Soumya 1-0-7-0
RESULT: South Africa won by six wickets.
MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Kagiso Rabada
UMPIRES: Paul Reiffel (Australia), Richard Illingworth (England)
Television UMPIRE: Chris Brown (New Zealand)
MATCH REFEREE: Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)
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