CWC 2015: The five best stories of the tournament

#4 South Africa win its first-ever knock-out match at the World Cup

South Africa won their first-ever knock-out match at the World Cup.

South Africa is always criticized for its inability to sustain crucial encounters. They are called as chokers due to getting choked in knockout matches of any multinational tournament.

They have an unforgettable history about that, with a failure to win the semi-final of 1999 World Cup being the extreme of it. In 1999, they played a tie with Australia but could not qualify for the final because Australia had finished higher than them in the Super Sixes.

Before the quarter-final of CWC 2015, South Africa had played five knockout matches at the World Cup and lost all of those. In 2015, they won their first knockout game at the World Cup as they comprehensively defeated Sri Lanka by 9 wickets. Batting first, Sri Lanka could only score 137 runs and were bundled over by JP Duminy's hattrick, and South Africa chased that easily on the back of a 57-ball 78 by Quinton de Kock.