ICC World Cup : S.Africa Innings End at 6/341
12 March, Wellington
South Africa put up huge 341 runs in their stipulated 50 overs with loss of six wickets in the Pool-B match in the Icc World Cup being played at Welington Thursday.
AB de Viliers who carried an superb innings to help South Africa to amass huge score was unfortunate as he fell one run short of a ton against UAE. He fell to Kamran Shazad at 99 .
Farahaan Behardien ‘s quick knock of 64 off 31 balls was another highlight of the S.Africa innings.
Forf UAE, Javed was the highest wicket taker 3 for 63
UAE won the toss and elected to field first against South Africa in their final Pool-B match of the Cricket World Cup.
South Africa have already made it to the quarterfinals, and a victory today will consolidate their position at the second spot behind Team India in Pool-B. The Proteas have won 3 of their 5 games. UAE, on the other hand, have lost all of their 4 matches played uptil now, and are out of the contention of a knock-out stage berth.
South Africa lost opener Hashim Amla early at the score of just 17. Quinton de Kock and Rilee Rossouw followed and at one stage, the Proteas were 96 for 3.