West Indies vs South Africa Highlights, WCL 2025: South Africa Champions win absolute thriller via dramatic bowl-out

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Ashley Nurse… misses too! He's usually so accurate.

So if Dwayne Bravo misses the Windies lose… he steps up… and he has missed it! Unbelievable!

Proteas are jubilant, they have won in the most dramatic of situations. But the WCL 2025 has come alive, a bowl-out win for South Africa!

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Oh, that couldn't get any better! The perfect Test match ball in the corridor of uncertainty, shaves off stump but doesn't hit it.

Cottrell next up… oh wow, it's missed by a whisker again! Yorker attempted, and just bounces wide! Both players hit the deck after missing. So close, yet so far, and the Proteas are enjoying themselves.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Parnell lands his yorker at the base of the stumps, that's perfect! Pressure on Windies now, they need at least two, three to win.

Fidel Edwards first…

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Morris just misses as it bounces over the bail, so close! But JJ Smuts doesn't mess up. He fumbled the chase, but key here, hits middle stump.

Parnell with the last one…

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Phangiso first up for the Proteas… and he is nowhere close! Chris Morris next… he too misses by a mile! Well, well wide. Pressure on!

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: These players having some fun — many of them wouldn't have been involved in a bowl-out during their careers. Very fun scenes out at Edgbaston. Let's see how it goes, if it's alternates, or if it is one team bowls five straight.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: SCORES ARE TIED AS THE PROTEAS CAN ONLY FIND A SINGLE! Proteas were so comfortable in that last over, but have thrown it away, and now we are going to an old-school bowl out. Wow!

Duminy's 25*(12) can only tie it, but some very good performances from Sheldon Cottrell and Fidel Edwards.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Not needed at all from Morne van Wyk! First ball, he sees the field up on the offside, and he tries to be a hero by clearing it. Hard on this surface on the first ball, and suddenly there is tonnes of pressure on the Proteas — with JP Duminy off-strike!

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: WOW! South Africa need only 2 off the last 3 balls after Duminy finds the boundary, but with just some cool level-headed batting needed, Smuts swings across the line and misses it.

79/5 now, and 2 needed off 2!

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Another sweet, sweet swing into the leg-side for six that changes the complexion of this match! Such clean hitting — but Cottrell minimises damage otherwise. 9 off the last 6!

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Big hit from Duminy over square leg, that's a massively important six runs!

Now two overs left, and 17 needed. Big over for Cottrell to try and give someone something to defend in the last over.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Wow, are the football teams in this part of the country paying attention! South Africa try to take a quick run, but Cottrell hunts it down and uses his right foot to kick it hard and low at the stumps — and the big fish Erwee is gone! What a moment.

A finish that any striker would be proud of.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Amla picks up 4, but gone right after caught behind!

JP Duminy to the crease. Still in range, but important wicket to get the new man in for the Windies.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Good over by DJ Bravo, and he will be back for at least one more. Erwee will want to capitalise on who he faces from the other end.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Very quickly down to the final few overs. Erwee conencting cleanly and finding the boundary, but Amla really struggling. Worth considering a change in plan to get someone with a touch more power?

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: What a shot that is! The powerplay's closing three balls, and Erwee picks up four with a streaky edge over slip, before timing one beautifully over the bowler's head for six.

It's a strong end to the powerplay that was looking kind of disastrous. 23/2, behind the rate but not horribly so.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: That's quite the shame! So much buzz around AB's return, but he's undone by one which stops just a little and forces him to play a very uppish cut to the cover fielder. Soft dismissal, and batting certainly isn't easy. 8/2 after 2.1, and the Windies are in this.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Quick, swinging, emphatic as it just bursts through Levi! First ball is a beaut by Cottrell, and Levi can't catch up. Exactly what the Windies wanted in this innings — but it brings up the danger man de Villiers.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Some spin to start us off for this chase, as the tall Sulieman Benn takes the first over. Richard Levi on strike as this chase of 80 begins with a dot ball.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: That is that, then! This pitch has actually been quite bowler friendly across the first two matches, allowing the Proteas to really put the clamps despite the power-hitting pedigree of the Windies.

80 to win from 11 overs for AB de Villiers' team when we return. A manageable chase — but that is what we said last night as well.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Windies finally middle a couple, but can't make a good over into a really strong one. Bravo nails a beautiful six down the ground, but out next ball.

69/5, last ball of the innings coming up.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: South Africa putting a total bind on the batters with some spin, and this innings is struggling to go anywhere! Simmons tries to clear the ground, but slices it high into the air off Smuts.

7.5 overs played, 50/4. Only three overs left.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Two wickets in two balls! Kieron Pollard always struggles against spin early in his innings, and Aaron Phangiso breaches his defences with the very first delivery! Hits him on his pad and that's as plumb as can be.

Proteas well on top! 30/3 after 5.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Classic! Rolling back the years like he never left. Fielding at point and sliced to his right, de Villiers easily makes the ground with short sharp steps and puts in a dive to comfortably pouch it.

30/2 now, Pollard to the crease.

West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Live Score, WCL 2025: Advantage South Africa after the powerplay, you feel, not bleeding runs and now able to spread the field. Windies not able to unleash so far.