South Africa vs Australia Highlights, World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: AUS beat SA by 3 wickets, to face IND in final

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Hazlewood gets a second as well, van der Dussen is gone. South Africa are in tatters, Australia are just flying. Hazlewood goes slightly fuller, tempts Rassie into the drive, outside edge and into Steve Smith at second slip.

van der Dussen c Smith b Hazlewood 6 (31)

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 24/4 in 11.5 overs

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: More trouble for South Africa. Fifth ball of the 11th from Starc, Markram goes for the drive, it flies off the outside edge and Warner takes a gun catch at point. The South African top three is back in the hut.

Markram c Warner b Starc 10 (20)

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 22/3 in 10.5 overs

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: The first boundary of this match has come off the fourth ball of the ninth over. Starc loses his line for once, errs on Markram's pads and the latter flicks it through the leg side. That went like a rocket. A dot next ball and a leg bye after that and Markram is on five off nine, van der Dussen on five off 27.

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 17/2 in 9 overs

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: The seventh over from Starc is a maiden. He has given just four runs away in four overs and taken a wicket. Hazlewood has figure of 1/3 in 3 overs. Australia have been fielding EVERYTHING. South Africa just cannot get away. van der Dussen is on 3 off a whopping 22 balls. Markram yet to get off the mark after facing two. This is stunning from Australia so far.

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 8/2 in 7 overs

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Metronomic accuracy from Hazlewood and, fantastic catch from Cummins Australia have sent back De Kock for just three runs! de Kock has just scored three runs in 14 balls and was desperate to get going. Tries to launch a delivery sent in at length, as Hazlewood has been doing throughout this game thus far. It goes high, way way high up in the air. Cummins is running back, he has Labuschagne coming around as well and so he calls for it, pouches the ball with his body weight taking him tumbling backwards and holds on through it all. Australia have been just sensational everywhere thus far, the five-time champions showing why they are the most succesfull team in the history of the World Cup for now.

de Kock c Cummins b Hazlewood 3 (14)

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 8/2 in 5.4 overs

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Australia have got the bit between their teeth early in this match. They have dived and jumped around to ensure that potential boundaries end up becoming dot balls. Van der Dussen with a drive through the covers off the third ball of the fourth over from Starc, Warner flings at it and stops the batters from taking any runs. Similar shot next ball and more of the same from Warner.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Well South Africa are hardly able to get away at all thus far but they won't be too bothered by that. They have often started off slow throughout this tournament before taking off later on.

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 6/1 in 4 overs

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Hazlewood bowled the second. He has a good match-up against De Kock and the latter managed to get off strike off the second ball. Rassie van der Dussen was then pinned to the crease.

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 2/1 in 2 overs

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: There is the early wicket that Australia were looking for, Starc gets the South African captain with the last ball of the first over. Pitched on off, Bavuma take a poke, outside edge and Inglis with a comfortable take.

Bavuma c Inglis b Starc 0 (4)

SA vs AUS Live Score: South Africa 1/1 in 1 over

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Ricky Ponting has rung the bell at Eden. Quinton de Kock takes guard, Temba Bavuma at the other end. Mitchell Starc with the brand new ball in his hands. We will know at the end of the day which team faces India on Sunday but the journey towards the knowledge starts now. Here we go!

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: It is all simmering nice here at the Eden Gardens. The two teams are standing adjacent to each other with all the officials and mascots. First comes Australia's national anthem and then South Africa's.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Cummins admits that Australia would have liked to bat first as well. However, he is hopeful now that there is some swing early on since it is overcast. "They play pretty similar style, unfortunately they have won a last few, we are due. We have been in these positions before. We have a lot of experience. We were not up to our best in those couple of games. But guys have been positive in the last seven games. Two changes for us. Stoinis and Abbott are out. Maxwell and Starc are in."

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: The South African captain admitted that himself so, pretty strange that he is playing today. “We have come against a team like Australia in the semi-final. Means a lot to me, there's a game to focus on. Very important to stay in the present. Need to stick to our processes. Shamsi is in for Ngidi, Jansen comes in for Phehlukwayo.”

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Quinton de Kock (WK), Temba Bavuma (C), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Travis Head, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Pat Cummins (C), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: South Africa have won the toss and chosen to bat first! That, is a significant development in this semi-final considering how the tournament has gone for South Africa thus far.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: We just have to talk about that game almost every time South Africa and Australia meet in a major tournament, let alone the World Cup semi-final itself. Australia scored 213 with the legendary Allan Donald picking 4 wickets and Shaun Pollock taking five. Donald of course would have a role to play in the Bollywood soap opera level drama that would come later. Shane Warne then picked four himself and it looked like Australia are set to defend their total. But South Africa fought back, first through Jacques Kallis' 53, then Jhonty Rhodes' 43 and then Lance Klusener launching an assault of seismic proportions. It came down to South Africa needing nine off the last over, Australia needing one wicket to win. Klusener start off with back to back fours and tied the scores. Then a dot ball and then... well the incident that seems to have cast a curse on all of South Africa's subsequent World Cup campaigns. Klusener pulled the fourth ball from Damien Fleming down the wicket, called for a single. Donald didn't move!! He ended up dropping his bat and somehow, both batters ended up at the non-striker's end. The fielder at mid-off threw it to Fleming, who under-armed it to wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist. In that time, Donald started running down the pitch with no bat in hand but it was all too late. The match ended as a tie but Australia went through because they finished higher on the Super 6 table. If South Africa go through this time because they finished higher on the points, well they can probably lay that ghost to rest for a little bit.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Well Kagiso Rabada and Tabraiz Shamsi took a look at the pitch yesterday and the former then mimicked a spinner's action. It is a black soil surface which is normally always good news for spinners. However, it can also provide sluggish bounce for the quicks.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: It was only a very light drizzle earlier and that has stopped but the covers remain in place, as do the clouds above them. Locals are of the opinion that there will be rain but it shouldn't be so bad that the match would get pushed to a reserve day. It normally doesn't rain that heavily, if it does, at this time of the year is their opinion. Remember what we said about those fingers earlier? Yes, continue to keep them crossed.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Quinton de Kock has been the engine room in this tournament for South Africa whenever they have put up those run mountains batting first but it is the impetus provided by Heinrich Klaasen (and David Miller) that gets them going. In the process, Klaasen has played some of the most extraordinary ODI innings you would ever get to see. A stand out among those was the 67-ball 109 that he scored against England which propelled their score to 399/7 at the Wankhede Stadium. Until Maxwell's freakshow at the same venue, that was probably the best innings of the tournament.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: The ground at the Eden Gardens is currently looking resplendent under the shiny white covers and there are little glistening water droplets all over it. A lovely sight, unless you are a cricket fan, which would be the majority of the people looking at it at the moment so well, not so lovely after all. It is drizzling at the moment in Kolkata and there are heavy dark clouds everywhere. But this is good, there is still an hour to go for the toss so maybe it will all just blow off by then. Keep those fingers crossed.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: Bavuma doesn't feel he needs to go around hugging his teammates to calm them down because they seem to be pretty calm on their own at the moment, aside from the "normal level of anxiety" that comes ahead of a game of this stature. "There's a sense of calmness within the team and obviously the normal level of anxiety that you would expect of going into the game tomorrow. But I think we'll take a lot of confidence with our performances up until this point. But yeah, I don't think I'll be going around giving guys hugs," he said.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: For a long time in the 21st century Australia and South Africa were seen as the two of the best teams in the world across formats, particularly before the advent of T20s. In the World Cup, the two sides have met each other seven times. Each side have won three with the one tie being THAT semi-final at Edgbaston in 1999.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: According to a Met department bulletin issued on Wednesday, South Bengal districts and Kolkata are likely to receive rains for the next three days starting Thursday. The depression over the west-central Bay of Bengal moved northwestwards with a speed of 13 kmph during the past three hours and lay centred at 1130 hours IST Wednesday, about 470 km southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 620 km south-southeast of Paradip (Odisha) and 770 km south of Digha (West Bengal). Heavy rains are likely to occur over districts of Purba Medinipur and South 24 Parganas district on Thursday, while light to moderate rains will occur in Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, Purba Bardhaman, Nadia and Paschim Medinipur districts.

South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: There are reports of rain potentially playing a role in this match. Whether it will be bad enough for a reserve day to be forced is unclear as of yet but Australia captain Pat Cummins seemed pretty calm about the whole affair. "We'll turn up expecting to play a 50-over match tomorrow. If that shifts on us, we can adjust as needed. It feels like it hasn't really rained here for the last couple of months, so to see the weather looking like that for two days is not ideal," he said.