D. Africa's spectacular performance in the semi-finals, defeated West Indies by 3 wickets in a thrilling match

WI vs SA T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: The ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 Super 8 match is in full swing today as West Indies will take on South Africa at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound. This match is like 'karo yaar maaro'. Africa won by 3 wickets under the Duckworth-Lewis rule, making it difficult for West Indies to enter the semi-finals. With this, South Africa has made a bang entry into the semi-finals.

South Africa tops the points table

In the thrilling match against West Indies, South Africa got the benefit of Duckworth-Lewis rule. Due to rain interruption, a target of 123 runs was given in 17 overs. After which they chased the target with 5 balls remaining. With this victory, South Africa has entered the semi-finals. Whereas England has already reached the semi-finals. In Group 2, South Africa is at the top with 6 points while England is at the second place with 4 points.

It rained several times during the match

During this match, when there were two overs left in South Africa's innings, it started raining. At that time, the score of the African team was 15 runs for two wickets and was in trouble. But when the game resumed after the rain stopped, the overs in the match were reduced and Africa got a new target. For South Africa, Tristan Stubbs scored 29 runs in 27 balls with the help of four fours. While Heinrich Klaasen played an innings of 22 runs.

5 runs were needed in the last over

South Africa needed five runs to win in the last over. In the first over of Obed McCoy, Marco Jensen hit a six on the very first ball to give South Africa the win. Jensen scored an unbeaten 21 runs. Roston Chase took the maximum of three wickets for West Indies. Andre Russell and Alzari Joseph took two wickets each.

Puran scored a half century

Earlier, after losing the toss and batting first, West Indies scored 135 runs for eight wickets in 20 overs. For West Indies, Nicholas Pooran played a brilliant innings of 52 runs in 42 balls which included three fours and two sixes. While opener batsman Kyle Mayers scored 35 runs in 34 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes.