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South Africa vs Australia Highlights, World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: AUS defeated SA by three wickets and will face India in the final.
South Africa vs Australia Highlights, World Cup 2nd Semi-Final 2023: Australia defeated South Africa by three wickets in their 2023 World Cup semi-final fixture, at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. Pat Cummins and Co. will now face India in the final. Chasing 213 runs, Australia managed to reach 215/7 in 47.2 overs, in a highly tactical match. Travis Head got a half-century for Australia, smacking 62 runs off 48 balls. Meanwhile, Steve Smith (30), David Warner (29) and Josh Inglis (28) also got key knocks for Australia. For South Africa's bowling department, Tabraiz Shamsi and Gerald Coetzee took two wickets each....Read More
Earlier, David Miller's 101 off 116 balls almost single-handedly took South Africa to a score of 212 after Australia piled on the pressure in the first 20 overs and sent back their top four within the first 12. Australia came out with the bit between their teeth after Temba Bavuma and chose to bat first. Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood were relentless with their lines and lengths while the Australian fielders were flying around and stopping almost everything. It led to South Africa scoring just 22 runs in the first 11 overs and losing three wickets, including their batting talisman Quinton de Kock. Matters got even worse as Hazlewood got Rassie van der Dussen in the 12th. That brought together South Africa's finishers Heinrich Klaasen and Miller in the 12th over of the innings itself.
Two overs later, rain made an appearance and South Africa were 44/4 in 14 overs. The match resumed just over 50 minutes later with no overs lost. Miller and Klaasen steadied the proceedings for the Proteas before they started counter-attacking and putting some pressure on the Australians. The stand reached 95 in 113 when Travis Head dismissed Klaasen on 47 off 48 in the 31st over. He then got Marco Jansen off the very next ball and Australia were right back on top. Gerald Coetzee then gave Miller able company and the pair put up 53 runs for the seventh wicket. Coetzee soon fell on 19 and Miller batted with the tail to eventually put up a gritty century. He fell soon thereafter on 101 off 116 balls and South Africa were all out for 212 in the final over.
Here are a few highlights around the South Africa vs Australia 2023 World Cup Semi-Final:
- South Africa won the toss and chose to bat
- South Africa and Australia have met just twice in the knockouts of the World Cup before this
- South Africa finished second on the points table while Australia finished third
- Rain interrupted play after the 14th over for over 50 minutes
- Klaasen and Miller then put up 95 for the fifth wicket before Head got the former and Jansen out off consecutive deliveries
- Miller scored his 25th ODI fifty shortly thereafter and fell on 101 off 116 balls
- South Africa were all out for 212
-Travis Head (62) gets half-century for Australia in chase
-Josh Inglis plays key knock of 28 off 49 balls
-Australia reach 215/7 in 47.2 overs, win by 3 wickets
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: Australia's road to the semis
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: As stated earlier, Australia started off by lulling the rest of the world into a false sense of security. They lost to India by six wickets and then to South Africa by 134. But then they showed that they are Australia by not losing anything after that. Their run started with a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka, then a 62-run win over Pakistan before a World Cup record 309-run win over the Netherlands. They then saw off New Zealand with a thrilling five-run win and beat Ashes rivals England by 33 runs. Australia then ended the group stage with a three-wicket win over Afghanistan, which featured the aforementioned magic trick with no legs from Glenn Maxwell, and an eight-wicket win over Bangladesh.
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: South Africa's road to the semis
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: South Africa started this tournament with a bang, blasting all kinds of batting records out of the pond by scoring 428/5 against Sri Lanka. They won that match by 102 runs. Then they blew Australia away by 134 runs but the existential crisis that seems to be always around the corner for any South African side in a major tournament came when they were stunned by the Netherlands by 38 runs. But they came screaming from that setback, beating England by 229 runs, Bangladesh by 149 runs and then recording a one-wicket win over Pakistan in what was the first real thriller of this World Cup. South Africa then beat New Zealand by 190 runs before finally bowling first once again for the first time since that defeat to the Netherlands. It went horribly wrong once again for them as they were brushed aside by 83 runs against the marauding Indian attack and lost the match by 243 runs. They then ended the group stage with a five-wicket win over Afghanistan, thereby finishing second.
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: South Africa full squad
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: Quinton de Kock(w), Temba Bavuma(c), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Lizaad Williams, Reeza Hendricks, Tabraiz Shamsi, Marco Jansen
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: Australia full squad
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(w), Marcus Stoinis, Sean Abbott, Pat Cummins(c), Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Alex Carey, Cameron Green
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: Hello and welcome!
South Africa vs Australia Live Score, SA vs AUS World Cup 2nd Semi-final 2023: It is the Eden Gardens. It is South Africa and Australia who meet for the third time in the knockout of a World Cup. Will it be another thriller to end all thriller as in 1999, or a blow out like in 2007? Both games were in favour of Australia, will that be the result again or will this rather unheralded South African break the jinx that haunted the greats before the? We will find out at the end of this day, or next day, considering there is a lingering doubt over the weather. Here we go!
