Imran Tahir picked up four wickets on debut as a South African team loaded with spinners restricted the West Indies to 222 in their World Cup Group B clash in Delhi. West Indies have themselves to blame after their batting collapse. Darren Bravo had given them a solid platform but the Windies failed to capitalise. They came out to bowl, started well by taking two quick wickets but AB de Villiers played a scintillating knock, his 10th ODI century, to take the Proteas home comfortably with 7.1 overs to spare. Duminy and Graeme Smith also made fine contributions with the bat.
DM Bravo(73) and DJ Bravo(40) was the top scorers from the west indies team. Gayle(2) was dismissed by botha in the first over itself. After which Smith and Bravo managed to score a partnership of 111-run. Bravo was dismissed by Botha in the 23rd over.
Imran Tahir took four wickets of the west indies team with an economy rate of 4.10, Steyn was good with an economy rate of 3.20 , who also took three wickets. Botha took 2 wickets.
AB de Villiers(107), Smith(45), Duminy (42) were the top scorers from the South Africa team.
"Firstly, I would thank all the people who have come from SA. Big congratulations to Tahir, the way he bowled, for a debutant he was fantastic. I was very happy with my performance. I wasn't playing well in the nets but it did come out well today. I spoke to Graeme last night about the outfield getting wet, my IPL experience did help me read the wicket at the end of the day."AB de Villiers said.
"Darren Bravo played well and when the game seemed to be going away from us, we bowled well in the middle overs and pulled things back. We created pressure on the new batters and wickets fell in clusters. We had not played for the past ten days and it was key for us to perform to the best of our abilities. AB hit the ball sweetly and it was great to form a partnership with him. He read the situation well, it usually comes with experience and all credit to him. We have 8 days to go before we take on Holland, we'll have a couple of days off and then work for the next game."Graeme Smith said.
"We could have posted much more than what we scored, Darren Bravo has continued to impress every single time and that is a positive. We lost wickets in clusters which didn't help us. We haven't got any news about Dwayne's injury. Hopefully he will be available for the rest of the tournament. We have to go see the extent of the injury and then take a call."Darren Sammy said.
Toss : South Africa, who chose to field.
Points : South Africa 2, West Indies 0
Player of the match : AB de Villiers (South Africa)
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DM Bravo(73) and DJ Bravo(40) was the top scorers from the west indies team. Gayle(2) was dismissed by botha in the first over itself. After which Smith and Bravo managed to score a partnership of 111-run. Bravo was dismissed by Botha in the 23rd over.
Imran Tahir took four wickets of the west indies team with an economy rate of 4.10, Steyn was good with an economy rate of 3.20 , who also took three wickets. Botha took 2 wickets.
AB de Villiers(107), Smith(45), Duminy (42) were the top scorers from the South Africa team.
"Firstly, I would thank all the people who have come from SA. Big congratulations to Tahir, the way he bowled, for a debutant he was fantastic. I was very happy with my performance. I wasn't playing well in the nets but it did come out well today. I spoke to Graeme last night about the outfield getting wet, my IPL experience did help me read the wicket at the end of the day."AB de Villiers said.
"Darren Bravo played well and when the game seemed to be going away from us, we bowled well in the middle overs and pulled things back. We created pressure on the new batters and wickets fell in clusters. We had not played for the past ten days and it was key for us to perform to the best of our abilities. AB hit the ball sweetly and it was great to form a partnership with him. He read the situation well, it usually comes with experience and all credit to him. We have 8 days to go before we take on Holland, we'll have a couple of days off and then work for the next game."Graeme Smith said.
"We could have posted much more than what we scored, Darren Bravo has continued to impress every single time and that is a positive. We lost wickets in clusters which didn't help us. We haven't got any news about Dwayne's injury. Hopefully he will be available for the rest of the tournament. We have to go see the extent of the injury and then take a call."Darren Sammy said.
Toss : South Africa, who chose to field.
Points : South Africa 2, West Indies 0
Player of the match : AB de Villiers (South Africa)
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