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[MusaPk]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis? South Africa only hope is rain which has stopped the play right now. There must a reserve day for this semi final also but I don't know play on reserve day will resume from scratch or from where its interrupted.

[Sithara007]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis? South Africa only hope is rain which has stopped the play right now. There must a reserve day for this semi final also but I don't know play on reserve day will resume from scratch or from where its interrupted.

Well.. the partnership between David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen has added 57 runs till now and South Africa are at 79/4 after 25 overs. Pat Cummins has been expensive till now, but Glenn Maxwell has kept things very tight from the other end. The problem for Australia is that their two main strike bowlers have already bowled most of their overs (Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood have a combined 5 overs remaining). Adam Zampa have been ineffective today, so they need to stick with the combination of Maxwell-Cummins for some time.

[noormcs5]

In the second semi-final match, South Africa won the toss and lost 4 wickets in the beginning. South Africa's batting performance suggests that they will be bowled out for 200 runs today. South Africa now need to form a strong pair to survive 50 overs. Otherwise, South Africa will not last the full 50 overs today. But we will wait to see the entire innings of the match from start to finish to see how any team can perform to confirm the semi-final today and confirm the final.

The match was stopped due to rain, and the match before rain was good for Australia as they took wickets. The match is played in Eden Gardens and today weather of Eden Gardens is not good according to today's weather prediction. The weather prediction tells us that today's weather is not good in Eden Gardens and rain will never stop for two hours so maybe over will be less.

This is a trouble semi-final. South African players want that match will never to start again and the rain will never stop because they are losing the game. The south African team can rest, and I hope that the match will start again.

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South Africa Vs Australia

In the second semi-final match, South Africa won the toss and lost 4 wickets in the beginning. South Africa's batting performance suggests that they will be bowled out for 200 runs today. South Africa now need to form a strong pair to survive 50 overs. Otherwise, South Africa will not last the full 50 overs today. But we will wait to see the entire innings of the match from start to finish to see how any team can perform to confirm the semi-final today and confirm the final.

The match was stopped due to rain, and the match before rain was good for Australia as they took wickets. The match is played in Eden Gardens and today weather of Eden Gardens is not good according to today's weather prediction. The weather prediction tells us that today's weather is not good in Eden Gardens and rain will never stop for two hours so maybe over will be less.

This is a trouble semi-final. South African players want that match will never to start again and the rain will never stop because they are losing the game. The south African team can rest, and I hope that the match will start again.

The game was stopped due to rain but the game resumed when the rain stopped. Right now South Africa have collected 100 runs in 28 overs with the loss of 4 wickets. However, due to rain, the game did not become a DLS mode. Although the weather is very bad it is still playable due to which the game started very quickly. They will probably be praying for rain as South Africa have done badly in today's match. But I hope the weather is good and the game goes to 50 overs.

[Cheema02]

South Africa Vs Australia

In the second semi-final match, South Africa won the toss and lost 4 wickets in the beginning. South Africa's batting performance suggests that they will be bowled out for 200 runs today. South Africa now need to form a strong pair to survive 50 overs. Otherwise, South Africa will not last the full 50 overs today. But we will wait to see the entire innings of the match from start to finish to see how any team can perform to confirm the semi-final today and confirm the final.

South Africa won the toss and decided to bat first current score is 100 runs  in loss of 4 wickets in 28 Overs. After 4 early wickets South Africa recovered by Heinrich Klaasen is playing well scored 37 runs in 41 balls alongside with David Miller who is playing at 41 runs in 60 balls. Australia outstanding batting performance especially Mitchell Starc who picked 2 important wicktes by giving 18 runs in 7 over and Josh Hazlewood also bowl well picked 2 wickets by giving 12 runs in 8 overs. South Africa will look to scores 250 plus runs total for Australia in second semi finals of world cup.

[Swordsoffreedom]

South Africa  vs Australia

South African captain Bavuma won the toss and decided to bat in the second semi-final match. We knew that South Africa would decide to bat if they won the toss. Because this team can bat well in the first innings, but their performance in the second innings is not good. Also the pitch at Eden Garden in Kolkata is batting friendly. I am expecting a high score in today's match.

South Africa lost the wicket of captain Bavuma in the first over. We have never seen a better performance from Bavuma in a World Cup match. However, the South African management made Bavuma the captain. Bavuma does not have the ability to be the opener of a team like South Africa.

Have you ever seen any team making runs at the rate of 1.12 runs per over in this world cup? Well if not, you can watch the South African team now and witness it with your own eyes. 

A very poor start by South Africa to this semi final and they 8-2 in 7 overs. This is one of the worst starts any team can think of in a match as big as semi finals. First, their unfit captain Temba Bavuma got out at Zero. Since the South African team went on the back foot and tried to defend every ball (no aggressive batting), that caused extra pressure on their inform batsman Quinton de Kock and he also lost his wicket.

Australia is looking in full control of the match and they are not giving any runs to the South African team.

The four batsmen of South Africa's top order collected 3, 0, 6 and 10 runs respectively. I can't imagine South Africa's top order performing this badly today. South Africa's collection was only 10 runs in the first 8 overs. We are seeing very bad batting from the team today.

At the end of 30 overs, South Africa managed to collect only 111 runs. They could not collect even 4 runs per over. Heinrich Klaseen and Dawid Miller are batting well enough. Maybe the South Africa team will give a target around 200 today. An easy win for Australia awaits today. I expected to see a competitive match, but the match turned out to be completely one-sided.

[BitcoinsGreat]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis? South Africa only hope is rain which has stopped the play right now. There must a reserve day for this semi final also but I don't know play on reserve day will resume from scratch or from where its interrupted.

Just South Africa hit one hundred runs with struggle. Now 100 runs are completed as their next goal is two hundred runs and when they complete their next goal so they just focus on hitting at least 280 and I would like to predict the score, I think that they can do 250 runs with struggle.

David Miller is the last player and hope of South Africa because he is the only one who can play very well and leads South Africa to the final. Heinrich Klaasen is also a very good player but the best David Miller. He is too near to be half-century.

[Bd officer]

South Africa Vs Australia

In the second semi-final match, South Africa won the toss and lost 4 wickets in the beginning. South Africa's batting performance suggests that they will be bowled out for 200 runs today. South Africa now need to form a strong pair to survive 50 overs. Otherwise, South Africa will not last the full 50 overs today. But we will wait to see the entire innings of the match from start to finish to see how any team can perform to confirm the semi-final today and confirm the final.

South Africa won the toss and decided to bat first current score is 100 runs  in loss of 4 wickets in 28 Overs. After 4 early wickets South Africa recovered by Heinrich Klaasen is playing well scored 37 runs in 41 balls alongside with David Miller who is playing at 41 runs in 60 balls. Australia outstanding batting performance especially Mitchell Starc who picked 2 important wicktes by giving 18 runs in 7 over and Josh Hazlewood also bowl well picked 2 wickets by giving 12 runs in 8 overs. South Africa will look to scores 250 plus runs total for Australia in second semi finals of world cup.

I am very disappointed with the poor performance of South Africa today, I have seen in every match that South Africa is able to score big if they bat first, but today they were put under a lot of pressure with the opening batting out. All the top order batsmen failed today. Quinton de Kock 3 runs and Temba Bavuma 0 runs and Rassie van der Dussen 6 runs, three batsmen scored 9 runs which is very disappointing. Both Aiden Markram and Rassie van der Dussen should have played defensively after the opening batting was dismissed quickly, but they too were dismissed quickly. David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen helped the team out of the pressure a bit, but Heinrich Klaasen was dismissed for 47 runs. So far, South Africa has collected 174 runs by losing 7 wickets in 44 overs. David Miller is still on strike and if he does a bit better South Africa can score 220+. Let's see how many runs South Africa can score in the end.

[Bitcoin_people]

South Africa bats against Australia in the first innings, but the opening batsmen have batted badly since the beginning of batting. Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen and Temba Bavuma did not collect good runs, if the three of them could have averaged 100 then South Africa would have had a good score. But these three batsmen batted the worst and South Africa's next batsmen batted in frustration as they got out. No cricket lover would have thought that South Africa would lose wickets this quickly against Australia in the second semi-final match today. Aiden Markram also could not survive in today's match, where all these batsmen have batted brilliantly in previous matches, but not today. However, David Miller put in a fantastic batting performance as he went on to score a century, the best batting performance for South Africa today. But today's match I think is the bowling crease due to which the batsmen did not play well. However, if Australia lose wickets early in the innings like South Africa did then the game will surely be a tight one.

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South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis? South Africa only hope is rain which has stopped the play right now. There must a reserve day for this semi final also but I don't know play on reserve day will resume from scratch or from where its interrupted.

Just South Africa hit one hundred runs with struggle. Now 100 runs are completed as their next goal is two hundred runs and when they complete their next goal so they just focus on hitting at least 280 and I would like to predict the score, I think that they can do 250 runs with struggle.

David Miller is the last player and hope of South Africa because he is the only one who can play very well and leads South Africa to the final. Heinrich Klaasen is also a very good player but the best David Miller. He is too near to be half-century.

Very bad batting performance by South Africa. In round matches SA was a special team and famous for scoring high runs. They were struggling only in second batting in the chasing. Today Bavuma won the toss and choose batting but today not work for South Africa. Australia main wicket taking bowlers Adam Zampa doesn't get any wickets while Starc and Hazlewood picked early wickets. Total target is now set to213. I think Australia will easily chase it and there will be big match on the Sunday.

[MusaPk]

South Africans have concluded there innings by givgn a target of 212 to Aussies. Only David Miller along with Heinrich Klaasen showed some resistance in front of Australian bowlers both have a partnership of 95 runs. After losing 4 top order batters quickly SA have done good to play 49.4 overs. I dont think there is much chance for SA to win today's game with such tiny target. Starc who was expensive throughout the tournament has done good in today's game with figure 10-1-34-3.

[Jateng]

South Africa bats against Australia in the first innings, but the opening batsmen have batted badly since the beginning of batting. Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen and Temba Bavuma did not collect good runs, if the three of them could have averaged 100 then South Africa would have had a good score. But these three batsmen batted the worst and South Africa's next batsmen batted in frustration as they got out. No cricket lover would have thought that South Africa would lose wickets this quickly against Australia in the second semi-final match today. Aiden Markram also could not survive in today's match, where all these batsmen have batted brilliantly in previous matches, but not today. However, David Miller put in a fantastic batting performance as he went on to score a century, the best batting performance for South Africa today.

South Africa posted 212 all out in first innings of match. A brilliant bowling and fielding performance from Austraila. South Africa only David Miller 101 runs hundred and Klaasen 47, and there was nothing from the South Africa batting order perform. David Miller score crucial century, a brilliant innings for South Africa helped to cross 200 runs. Australia skipper Pat Cummins gets 3/51 wickets and the big wicket of David Miller at 101 runs. Mitchell Starc top bowling performance 3/34 is his bowling spell. Now Australia are favourites of the final of world cup

[laurenB7742]

South Africans have concluded there innings by givgn a target of 212 to Aussies. Only David Miller along with Heinrich Klaasen showed some resistance in front of Australian bowlers both have a partnership of 95 runs. After losing 4 top order batters quickly SA have done good to play 49.4 overs. I dont think there is much chance for SA to win today's game with such tiny target. Starc who was expensive throughout the tournament has done good in today's game with figure 10-1-34-3.

Except for Heinrich Klaasen's 47 runs and Dawid Miller's 101 runs, no other batsman in the South African squad could do better. Our expectations were high from South Africa today. Because in the first round match they have a huge margin of 134 runs against Australia. Batting against a target of 312 runs given by the South Africans, Australia collected only 177 runs. However, the match is competitive and chances are still there. Since the South African bowlers managed to stop Australia for 177 runs in the previous match, they will try their best to bowl well in today's match. Let's see if the match is dominated by the Australian batsmen alone or turns out to be competitive.

[Popkon6]

Although South Africa is a very strong team, they could not score many runs today. Because the opening batsmen put the South African team under a lot of pressure but Miller and Klaasen were the two batsmen due to which South Africa managed to score 212 runs. Almost at the beginning of the game when the South African team lost 4 wickets for 24 runs, the South African team was almost helpless but miller being an experienced player managed to score a century, he scored enough runs for the South African team.
And if the South African team can keep the Australia team under pressure from the bowling side, the game will surely be full of competition. Because South Africa team has very good bowling which is enough to weaken Australia team. The chances of Australia team winning this match today is very high because I think Australia team can definitely meet the target of 212 runs.

[HelliumZ]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis? South Africa only hope is rain which has stopped the play right now. There must a reserve day for this semi final also but I don't know play on reserve day will resume from scratch or from where its interrupted.

We have seen many matches in the history of South Africa where they played very well in the group stage and reached the semi-final but in the semi-final does it change in them when they do not qualify for the semi-final but like today's match they lost in the semi-final multiple times. Today I will see South Africa's first three batsmen as one of the main reasons for the loss of today's match. They don't really have the ability to withstand pressure in cricket rather they lack some qualities of cricket.

[ZAINmalik75]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis?

South African team has done his one of worst ever performance in this world cup till now, mostly during his journey of this world cup thier top order scored brilliantly set a stage for rest of player and thus the rest of player Carrey on such momentum after thier dismissal and scored a decent big target but now I think this top order took Australian lighter which cost them brutal departure later miller took some responsibility and scored a significant runs in such high pressure critical situation but I don't think such small contribution will help south Africa to promote to final because if they scored 350+ then after that still I believe that Australia will win because they love high stage matches and they know how to survive here no matter how difficult it is.

[GigaBit]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis? South Africa only hope is rain which has stopped the play right now. There must a reserve day for this semi final also but I don't know play on reserve day will resume from scratch or from where its interrupted.

We have seen many matches in the history of South Africa where they played very well in the group stage and reached the semi-final but in the semi-final does it change in them when they do not qualify for the semi-final but like today's match they lost in the semi-final multiple times. Today I will see South Africa's first three batsmen as one of the main reasons for the loss of today's match. They don't really have the ability to withstand pressure in cricket rather they lack some qualities of cricket.

Really bad luck for the South African team. Because coming to the semi-final, their rhythm decline and is leading the team to a certain defeat. However, David Miller in the team tried to take the innings long. He batted admirably. But if the other team mates do not contribute, then how to take the team at a good level? If 4 wickets fall while scoring only 19 runs then what else is there to do in that match. Brought the team from a very bad position to a stage Klaasen and David Miller. However, in today's match, South Africa is definitely losing because the opposing team, Australia, has already lost only 1 wicket and completed 60 runs in 7 overs. That is, we can easily guess that India and Australia are finally playing in the final.

[3kpk3]

South Africa! Damn! I feel that they will never get rid of their chokers tag in big ICC tournaments sadly. Even Afghanistan put up a better fight in comparison which goes to show why the chokers tag suits them perfectly.

Never understood why Bavuma was in the team and why the heck was he chosen as the captain. I applaud Miller for his amazing performance under such insane pressure. Looks like it's India vs Australia yet again in the final.

[CryptoBuds]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis?

South African team has done his one of worst ever performance in this world cup till now, mostly during his journey of this world cup thier top order scored brilliantly set a stage for rest of player and thus the rest of player Carrey on such momentum after thier dismissal and scored a decent big target but now I think this top order took Australian lighter which cost them brutal departure later miller took some responsibility and scored a significant runs in such high pressure critical situation but I don't think such small contribution will help south Africa to promote to final because if they scored 350+ then after that still I believe that Australia will win because they love high stage matches and they know how to survive here no matter how difficult it is.

Target is too low. Still, South Africa is playing to win. Travis Head and David Warner collected 60 runs in the first wicket partnership. Australian team collected 60 runs in only 6 overs. Warner got out after collecting 29 runs off just 18 balls. But the interesting thing is that Australia lost two of their key batsmen in two overs. Mitchell Marsh returned to the dressing room without scoring a run in 6 balls. At the end of 8 overs, Australia collected 61 runs losing 2 wickets. South African batsmen are now under pressure. Now if the Australian bowlers can take the wicket of Smith and Head in the next few overs then it will be difficult for Australia to win this match. I will be happy if the match turns out to be exciting. I don't want to see a one-sided match in the semi-final.

[kro55]

South Africa are called chokers for a reason. After fighting hard in group stages they are once again at the verge of elimination. Starc and Hazlewood just destroyed the top order batting lineup of South Africa, 44/4 in 14 overs. I don't understand whats the benefit of playing so well at group stages if you have to do this in Semis?

South African team has done his one of worst ever performance in this world cup till now, mostly during his journey of this world cup thier top order scored brilliantly set a stage for rest of player and thus the rest of player Carrey on such momentum after thier dismissal and scored a decent big target but now I think this top order took Australian lighter which cost them brutal departure later miller took some responsibility and scored a significant runs in such high pressure critical situation but I don't think such small contribution will help south Africa to promote to final because if they scored 350+ then after that still I believe that Australia will win because they love high stage matches and they know how to survive here no matter how difficult it is.

Target is too low. Still, South Africa is playing to win. Travis Head and David Warner collected 60 runs in the first wicket partnership. Australian team collected 60 runs in only 6 overs. Warner got out after collecting 29 runs off just 18 balls. But the interesting thing is that Australia lost two of their key batsmen in two overs. Mitchell Marsh returned to the dressing room without scoring a run in 6 balls. At the end of 8 overs, Australia collected 61 runs losing 2 wickets. South African batsmen are now under pressure. Now if the Australian bowlers can take the wicket of Smith and Head in the next few overs then it will be difficult for Australia to win this match. I will be happy if the match turns out to be exciting. I don't want to see a one-sided match in the semi-final.

I don't see any possibility of this match being competitive anymore. Travis head is batting very aggressively. South Africa team collected 92 runs in 12 overs. They need just 121 runs to win in 38 overs. Australia needs to score a little more than 3 runs per over to win. Travis Head remained unbeaten on 54 off 41 balls. Unless a miracle happens, I don't see any chance of South Africa making a comeback in this match. If South Africa can take say 2/3 wickets in one over, then there is a possibility of changing the scenario a bit. But so far the match is completely under the control of Australia. If they bat responsibly and try to stay at the crease, Australia will win easily.