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South Africa won the first Super-8 match of the T20 World Cup by 18 runs on Wednesday. The match played between South Africa and USA witnessed a fierce clash. USA's performance in the run chase was strong. The USA team batted brilliantly while chasing the target of 195 runs given by South Africa. Till the 18th over of USA's innings, it seemed that they could win the match and make another big upset, but these hopes were dashed in the 19th over.
Kagiso Rabada snatches victory for USA
In the 19th over, Kagiso Rabada snatched away USA's hopes of victory. He took the wicket of Harmeet Singh, who was batting brilliantly, on the very first ball of this over. Harmeet, who scored 38 runs in 21 balls, tried to hit a big shot, but was caught out on the boundary. After Harmeet's wicket, Team USA's hopes of victory were over. Rabada gave only 2 runs in this over. Due to which this match came in the possession of South Africa.
The American batsmen batted brilliantly
Earlier, the USA batsmen needed 50 runs to win in 3 overs. It seemed that it would be difficult for the USA batsmen to achieve this target, but in the 18th over of Tabrez Shamsi, the batsmen took a lot of runs. Andries Goose and Harmeet Singh batted brilliantly together and scored 22 runs. After this the match started going in favor of USA. USA needed 28 runs to win, but Kagiso Rabada won with his clever bowling. After scoring only 2 runs in Rabada's over, Team USA was able to score only 7 runs in the last over and lost the match by 18 runs.