T20 World Cup 2024 : South Africa vs United States of America Match Preview, ICC T20 World Cup 2024

41st T20I • Sir Vivian Richards Stadium • Antigua

South Africa

194/4 (20)

United States of America

176/6 (20)

SA won by 18 runs

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Date & Time

19 Jun, 08:00 PM IST

Venue

Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua

TV/Streaming

Disney+ Hotstar, Star Sports

Match

41st T20I,

Umpires

Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand), Richard Kettleborough (England), Joel Wilson (West Indies, TV)

Referee

Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Toss

United States of America elected to bowl

Pitch Report

Weather is perfect, some breeze going across the ground. Dimensions 74m down the ground, 67m to my left. Short boundaries need to keep into account. It doesn't give a good look and the numbers also say the same. It's been a low scoring affair mostly. Back of a length is what needs to be used mostly with extra-bounce on offer. Nortje will be key on this wicket and the spinners will need to pitch it up, the ball has spun a lot. Fast bowlers will enjoy, not going to be a high scoring encounter. Win the toss and bowl first.

1st Innings

164Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

136.72Avg SR

2nd Innings

151Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

137.41Avg SR

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Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

USA

0- 0

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

United States of America

South Africa

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Aaron Jones

USA . BAT

152 Runs

3 Matches

Andries Gous

USA . WK

102 Runs

3 Matches

David Miller

SA . BAT

101 Runs

4 Matches

Top Bowlers

Anrich Nortje

SA . BOWL

9 Wkts

4 Matches

Saurabh Netravalkar

USA . BOWL

5 Wkts

3 Matches

Keshav Maharaj

SA . BOWL

5 Wkts

3 Matches

TIPS

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Expert Team 1

A Nortje

H Klaasen

Expert Team 2

M Jansen

A Nortje

TIPS

USA vs SA Dream11 Prediction: Fantasy Cricket Tips, Today's Playing XIs and Pitch Report for ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024, Match 41

Venue Details

Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua

1st Innings

164Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

136.72Avg SR

2nd Innings

151Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

137.41Avg SR

Toss winners opt to

65%Bat First Bowl First35%

Team Batting First

53%Wins Losses47%

Recent Matches on venue

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Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

United States of America

South Africa

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

USA

0- 0

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

Matches Played

Matches Won

141

Average Score

131

230/3

Highest Score

237/2

104/9

Lowest Score

71/10

Player of the Match Quinton de Kock

74(40)

Lucky Winner BHASKAR JANNI

USA

Info

South Africa

194/4 (20)

Batters

Quinton de Kock

185.00

c Shayan Jahangir b H Singh

Reeza Hendricks

100.00

c C Anderson b S Netravalkar

Aiden Markram

(C)

143.75

c Ali Khan b S Netravalkar

David Miller

0.00

c & b H Singh

Heinrich Klaasen

163.64

Not out

Tristan Stubbs

125.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 0, NB: 2, W: 4)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 9.7)

194/4

Did not Bat

Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi

Bowlers

EXT

5.25

11.25

18.00

9.67

6.00

10.50

17.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Reeza Hendricks

c C Anderson b S Netravalkar

1-16

2.4

Quinton de Kock

c Shayan Jahangir b H Singh

2-126

12.2

David Miller

c & b H Singh

3-126

12.3

Aiden Markram

c Ali Khan b S Netravalkar

4-141

14.6

United States of America

176/6 (20)

Batters

Steven Taylor

171.43

c H Klaasen b K Rabada

Andries Gous *

170.21

Not out

Nitish Kumar

133.33

c T Stubbs b K Rabada

Aaron Jones

(C)

0.00

c Q Kock b K Maharaj

Corey Anderson

100.00

b A Nortje

Shayan Jahangir

33.33

lbw b T Shamsi

Harmeet Singh

172.73

c T Stubbs b K Rabada

Jasdeep Singh

33.33

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 1, W: 6)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.8)

176/6

Did not Bat

Nosthush Kenjige, Ali Khan, Saurabh Netravalkar

Bowlers

EXT

10.67

13.00

4.50

6.00

9.25

12.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Steven Taylor

c H Klaasen b K Rabada

1-33

3.3

Nitish Kumar

c T Stubbs b K Rabada

2-53

5.3

Aaron Jones

c Q Kock b K Maharaj

3-56

6.4

Corey Anderson

b A Nortje

4-71

9.3

Shayan Jahangir

lbw b T Shamsi

5-76

11.1

Harmeet Singh

c T Stubbs b K Rabada

6-167

18.1

Match Info

Date & Time

19 Jun, 08:00 PM IST

Venue

Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua

TV/Streaming

Disney+ Hotstar, Star Sports

Match

41st T20I,

Umpires

Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand), Richard Kettleborough (England), Joel Wilson (West Indies, TV)

Referee

Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Toss

United States of America elected to bowl

1nb 1 1 4 1 0 1wd 1

Over 17

Runs: 10

1 1wd 0 6 1wd 1 6 6

Over 18

Runs: 22

W 0 0 1 1 0

Over 19

Runs: 2

1 1 0 4 1 0

Over 20

Runs: 7

All Overs

Player of the Match Quinton de Kock

74(40)

Lucky Winner BHASKAR JANNI

Commentary

That's all that we have for you from the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup for now. We'll be back in a few hours with a box-office clash from group 2 of the super 8 between two T20I heavyweights - the West Indies and England. Join us right here on Sportskeeda for that, and then a whole lot more! This is Rajarshi Das, signing off on behalf of Pradeep. Good night!

The idea of the Men's T20 World Cup being a 20-team event seems better with each passing game in the 2024 edition of the tournament! This United States of America side sure put up a envy-worthy display with the bat - they seemed down for the count just after the halfway mark, but the duo of Gous and Harmeet gave the Proteas a jolt heading into the death. It took some Kagiso Rabada brilliance to de-rail them towards the back-end. Plenty to take away for them as they head to their next game - a clash against continent-rivals West Indies on Saturday.

De Kock and Aiden Markram's partnership provided the Proteas with stability, upon which they were able to bank on eventually. As it turned out, the wicket seemed a touch tricky on quite a few occasions, and so, de Kock's fluent 74 off 40 sure proved to be the point of difference between the two sides. Shamsi's outing with the ball today, though, will be a cause of concern for them among others as they head to St. Lucia next for a game against England on Friday.

Aiden Markram (South Africa captain): Gous played really well, made life tough for us. Pretty good performance from us in the end, maybe a couple of things here and there and the result might have looked a bit more convincing. You take those lessons and tidy then up. Hopefully, moving forward, we get those stages right and the wins look more convincing. Nice start, the wicket definitely changes up, we saw it with us as well. They bowled well, the wicket got a bit slower, little bit stoppy, we'd much rather finish like that between Stubbsy and Klaasy to get 190 instead of blowing out and getting 160-170. Couple of lessons to take, but nice for the batters to be in the middle and get some runs. Nice for Quinny to get his flow and everyone else chipping in. Nice positive for us moving in the comp. There was a couple of overs we could have tidied on and the result could have looked different, couple of executions let us down. Think our bowlers have done a really good job given the conditions.

Aaron Jones (United States of America captain): It's hard to take a loss like that after coming so close, we needed to be disciplined with the ball. We have a really good unit, lot of talent in the USA. Once you play good cricket, you can beat any team to be honest. We need to be lot more disciplined, we could've pulled off if we had stayed disciplined, that's how it goes. We need to go back to drawing board and come back hard in the next game. Happy to be going back home to me personally, I know the conditions very well. As a team, majority of them played in the Caribbean, we should be good and play fearless cricket, hopefully come out on top.

Quinton de Kock is the Player of the Match! Here's what he has to say: It's nice getting out and especially on a decent wicket finally, we've had tricky wickets coming up until this game. Boys played really well, USA played well and put us under pressure towards the end, it was a great game. Not much, just focus on scoring runs towards the with the win and shorter boundary. We've had a tricky couple of wickets coming into this game, it was nice to hit the ball from the middle, scored some runs to our names, great to be out there. I don't think it counts, we still need to win couple more games and we're up against big teams and it's nice to get out there. Different venue, different surfaces, you never know what you'd be up against.

Match summary:

South Africa win by 18 runs

Quinton de Kock 74 (40) | Kagiso Rabada 3/18 (4)
Andries Gous 80*(47) | Saurabh Netravalkar 2/21 (4)

With a mountain to climb, the United States of America needed a flyer to get their chase underway. Steven Taylor proceeded to provide them with just that - Andries Gous stationed himself nicely at the non-striker's as Taylor absolutely ripped into the Proteas' attack early on. Aiden Markram brought himself on to counter the left-hander with his off-breaks, but ended up providing Taylor with a bit of impetus instead.

Markram then turned to Rabada to provide the Proteas with a breakthrough, and that was exactly what happened. Rabada ran in, hit the pitch hard, had Taylor mistime out, and Klaasen completed a fine catch. Gous, then joined by Nitish Kumar, proceeded to keep at it - the duo struck an over-boundary each over the leg side off Jansen, and while Nitish Kumar departed in the final over of the powerplay, USA had a start to bank on.

The Proteas spinners alongwith Anrich Nortje then proceeded to apply the squeeze on the United States. Aaron Jones dabbed at one that spun away from him and nicked behind, Corey Anderson struggled for 10 deliveries, smashed Nortje over deep mid wicket off his 11th and lost his leg pole to the same bowler next ball, and Jahangir was caight in front by Tabraiz Shamsi.

The United States still had a counter-attack or two up their sleeves - Harmeet Singh walked in, took both Protea left-arm spinners on and raced to 14 off his first six deliveries. Andries Gous then broke free - he took on Nortje's pace, clobbered him for 18 out of the 19 off the 15th over, brought his own half-century up with it, and kept his side well and truly in the hunt.

Tabraiz Shamsi missed his lengths far too often in his last couple of overs. The wrist-spinner went for 35 in them, leaving the United States with 28 to get off the last two overs. Kagiso Rabada then had Harmeet Singh hole out to deep mid wicket, and as it turned out, that was the moment which saw the tide turn towards South Africa for good. Nortje closed things out comfortably, and the Proteas, having had a scare, manage to seal a win to begin their Super 8s. Stay tuned for the post-match presentations...

They sure put up a brave, brave fight, but the Proteas pacers got the job done at the back-end. Top-notch effort, this, from the United States of America. They had a couple of stands full of fans rooting for them, but they ran out of ammo towards the back-end.

overs

176 /6 score

runs

Jasdeep Singh *

2 (6)

Andries Gous

80 (47)

Anrich Nortje

1 /37

19.6 Anrich Nortje to Jasdeep Singh, THAT IS THAT! South Africa remain unbeaten and win their first game of Super Eights here! That's a comprehensive win for South Africa but United States of America almost made a match out of this. Too full on the fourth stump, Jasdeep drilled it to mid-off.

Nortje from round the wicket

19.5 Anrich Nortje to Andries Gous, wide yorker, just inside the tramline. Gous reaches and squeezes it to deep backward square-leg for a single. Formality remains, final ball coming up!

19.4 Anrich Nortje to Andries Gous, EDGED AND FOUR! Falls just short of Rabada, dives forward and went for the catch, gets a bad bounce and goes past him to find the third-man ropes. Length delivery, angled into the batter, Gous looks to drive as he came down the track by making room but gets a thick outside edge.

19.3 Anrich Nortje to Andries Gous, full and angled in as Nortje follows the batter, Gous backing away drilled it straight back to the bowler.

19.2 Anrich Nortje to Jasdeep Singh, short and just outside the off-stump, Jasdeep cuts it past the covers for another single.

19.1 Anrich Nortje to Andries Gous, length delivery but follows the batter, cramps up for room as Gous backs away, slices it to extra-cover and takes the single.

Anrich Nortje (3-0-30-1) to bowl the final over of the match

Ah well - it was fun while it lasted. Jasdeep Singh had way too much to deal with - coming in with 28 off 11 with Rabada at the top of his mark is bound to be an unnerving sight for any lower-order batter. Gous will be having strike for the final over with 26 to get.

overs

169 /6 score

runs

Jasdeep Singh *

1 (4)

Andries Gous

74 (43)

Kagiso Rabada

3 /18

18.6 Kagiso Rabada, to Jasdeep Singh, OH! Stupendous penultimate over from Rabada, game changing one surely. Pace off, back of a length outside the off-stump. Jasdeep has a big swipe too early and misses. USA have a mountain to climb of the final over!

18.5 Kagiso Rabada, to Andries Gous, length delivery, keeps it well outside the off-stump. Gous reaches and flays it through backward point for one.