October 24, 2023; ICC men’s cricket World Cup 2023, India, match no. 23, South Africa vs Bangladesh. What an inning of De Cock! The match has been held in Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. South Africa won the match by 149 runs and the net run rate is still 2+. Team South Africa is becoming more dangerous day by day and all players are in prime form. After the match, in post-match presentation, Klaasen said that Bavuma will play the next match against Pakistan as he is recovering from the injury.
In the first inning, Bangladesh won the toss and chose to field and let the South African team bat. The two opening batsmen, de Cock and Hendricks, came into the match, but in this match, Hendricks failed to score big runs against the team Bangladesh and got bowled by Shoriful at 12 runs. The next batsman, van der Dussen, came but went to the pavilion at 1 run by Hasan Miraz. Then Markram and de Cock managed to set the scoreboard by building the partnership, and de Cock did half century. Markram also did the half century but was caught out by Litton Das at 60 runs in 69 balls, which is nine fours.
Klassen and de Cock smashed the bowling line-up in Bangladesh. Klassen made his half-century within 34 balls. In this time, de Cock also completed 150 runs, but he couldn’t last for long and was caught out by Nasum at 174 runs in 149 balls, which has 15 fours and 7 sixes boundaries. But this was not the end; Klassen and Miller took the responsibility, and at 90 runs, Klassen got out. Heinrich Klassen was caught out by Mahmudullah at 90 runs in 49 balls, which has 2 fours and 8 sixes boundaries. David Miller added 34 runs from his inning to the team scoreboard. South Africa built a huge score of 382 and gave the target of 383 runs.
In the 2nd inning, a Bangladesh batsman came into the field to chase the target of 383 runs. Litton Das and Tanzid Hassan are the opening batsman. With the bad start, Tanzid Hassan was caught by Klassen at 12 runs and 17 balls. Shanto came into the ground but went to the pavilion, caught out by Klassen again at 0 runs. Shakib al-Hassan also joined Shanto by scoring 1 run on 4 balls caught by Klassen again. And Litton das also couldn’t stay for long and got lbw by Rabada at 22 runs. M. Rahim and Mehdi Hasan Miraz also couldn’t do so much and went to the pavilion at 8 and 11 runs, respectively.
Klassen and de Cock smashed the bowling line-up in Bangladesh. Klassen made his half-century within 34 balls.Klassen was caught out by Mahmudullah at 90 runs in 49 balls, which has 2 fours and 8 sixes boundaries. Miller added 34 runs of his innings to the team score board. South Africa built a huge score of 382 and gave the target of 383 runs.
But on the other hand, Mahmudullah fought, struggled, and completed his century, but was caught out by Marco Jansen at 111 runs in 111 balls, which has 11 fours and 4 sixes in boundaries. But in the end, the Bangladesh team lost as no batsman could do so much and got out one by one. Their innings stopped at 233 runs and lost by 149 runs. With the loss of Bangladesh, the road to the semifinals has become more difficult, and on the other hand, it’s become easier for South Africa to go into the semifinals of the World Cup.