South Africa fine-tuned their preparations for the T20 World Cup Super 8s by cruising to a six-wicket win against the United Arab Emirates in their final group game in Delhi. <\/p>\n
Set a target of 123 by the UAE, who had already been eliminated, South Africa knocked off the runs with 40 balls to spare in a match where the only thing that came close to threatening a Proteas victory was the weather.<\/p>\n
With qualification for the next stage already secured, South Africa made four changes – resting David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj and Lungi Ngidi – and chose to field first after winning the toss. <\/p>\n
UAE made a steady start to their innings through Aryansh Sharma (13) and captain Muhammad Waseem (22), before Corbin Bosch and George Linde struck to remove the openers. <\/p>\n
Their hopes of building a competitive total then rested largely on Alishan Sharafu, but with wickets falling around him UAE’s innings faded away. <\/p>\n
With Sharafu departing five runs short of what would have been his second half\u2011century of the tournament, UAE mustered just 20 in the final four overs to finish on 122-6. <\/p>\n
The covers came on during the innings break as rain delayed South Africa’s response but when they did return, the Proteas were given a fast start by captain Aiden Markram, who struck an 11-ball 28.<\/p>\n
Ryan Rickelton and Dewald Brevis then kept pace with 30 and 36 respectively as the 2024 finalists reached their target in the 14th over. <\/p>\n
The UAE’s only win of the tournament was against Canada while South Africa had a perfect record in Group D with four wins from four matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa fine-tuned their preparations for the T20 World Cup Super 8s by cruising to a six-wicket win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-432479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}