On Saturday, South African batters achieved their highest-ever total in the T20 World Cup 2024. But Nepal really shut down the South African hitters in the opening innings of their match at the T20 World Cup group stage. The Proteas were reduced to 115/7 in their allotted 20 overs by bowlers like Kushal Bhurtel (4/19) and Dipendra Singh Airee (3/21). However, it was Sandeep Lamichhane (0/18) and Sompal Kami (0/6) who restricted the Proteas’ scoring and forced errors from them. In a Group D match, Nepal had won the toss and ordered South Africa to bat first.
Both players and fans were in tears as a result of Nepal’s elimination from the T20 World Cup 2024 Super Eight round. With four victories in a row, South Africa swept the group stage thanks to Tabraiz Shamsi’s 4 for 19, which pulled them back with an impressive 18th over. But the game appeared to be Nepal’s to lose for a very long time. Even on a challenging, shifting surface, their spinners had woven a web to restrict South Africa to a pitiful 115 for 7, and with seven wickets remaining, they were able to reduce the equation to 25 needed off 30 balls with the bat.
However, Shamsi, who replaced Keshav Maharaj, changed the course of the match with a double-wicket 18th over that included Aasif Sheikh’s 42 off 49. The game was reduced to two off two balls by two late runs from Sompal Kami and the eighteen-year-old Gulsan Jha, despite the dots that followed raising the needed rate. However, Nepal was unable to get bat on the ball both times due to Ottneil Baartman’s two dots, and their final try at a last-gasp run came up just short.
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