South Africa's world cup tragedy continues, as they proved they are chokers when they lost to New Zealand by 49 runs in the 3rd Quarter-Final of the 2011 CWC, on Friday, 25th March, 2011 at Mirpur. New Zealand will now face the winner of Sri Lanka v England match in the 1st semifinal.
New Zealand started badly with 2 early wickets but Taylor 43 runs and Jesse Ryder who hit 83 runs put 114 runs for the 3rd wicket and they managed only 221/8 in 50 overs thanks to good bowling by Morkel and Tahir, took 3 wickets each.
South Africa started well and they were comfortably ahead at 108-2 in 24 overs with Kallis 47 and de Villiers 35 palying but lost 6 quick wickets derailed their innings as Nathan McCullum and Oram took 3 & 4 wickets respectively. du Plessis tried hard to turn the match with 35 runs but run out of partner.
Match Summary:
New Zealand - 221/8 in 50 overs (Ryder 83, Taylor 43, Morkel 3-46, Imran 2-32)
South Africa - 172 all out in 43.2 overs (Kallis 47, N McCullum 3-24, Oram 4-39)
Toss - New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first.
Man of the Match - Jacob Oram (New Zealand)
Result - New Zealand won by 49 runs
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