What a classic match that was which is played between Australia and South Africa. Once again South Africa showed a very good performance and defeated Australia by 134 runs. Decided to bowl first and autralian were not good with the ball. Onceagain southafrucia batting very well and with carefull powerplay batting, team showed good batting especially Q.D.kock He once again scored his second consecutive century and played a great innings of 109 runs. South africa captain also got three chances and living dangerously and got out before making his fifty.
After that, no other batsman could be so dominant but all player palyed well and took this good innings forward and took the team’s total to 311. All the players contributed well. The pitch looked batting friendly but when Australia came to do batting , the ball was zipping a lot and due to which Australia could not stay on the wicket for time and all their batsmen were out for 177 runs. In this only marnus labushane played an innings of 46 runs in 70 balls all the other batsmen falls cheaply none of the batsmen can play a good link.
So Australia got their second consecutive loss, the first loss was against India where they were bowled out for 199 runs and this is their second loss in this tournament. South Africa have been dominant once again and by the looks of it, quinton de kock is in great form as this is his last World Cup as he has to retire from ODI cricket .Rabada ,jansen and ngidi bowled very well . especially Rabada He bowled very well. He took 3 crucial wickets. Maharaj also bowled well. So it looks like a good South African team and the southafrica team is looking good and they are showing themselves on the world stage. Thay are becoming big favorites to win this tournament and on the other hand New Zealand is also performing very well as well.
Southafrican were dominant and did not allow any of Australia’s batsmen to stay on the wicket. Australians will do and will definitely try to make a comeback in the tournament, so as the World Cup progresses, they are getting better and more excited and their intensity is increasing. A good and brilliant performance from South Africans and they won two matches out of two.