South Africa survived a serious scare from Nepal in scrambling a nerve-jangling one-run victory of their last Group D match of the T20 World Cup on the Arnos Vale Stadium in St Vincent on Friday. Needing eight runs off the ultimate over in pursuit of a modest goal of 116 for a surprising upset win, the Nepalese fell agonisingly brief at 114 for seven with Gulshan Jha run out off the ultimate ball as he tried a single off Ottneil Baartman to pressure a brilliant over.

“Very grateful to have gotten the win, we weren’t close to our greatest tonight,” relieved South Africa captain Aiden Markram mentioned afterwards.

“Reflecting again on the sport over the following few days, there might be a variety of learnings for us.

“Firstly, the way in which Nepal bowled it made it actually powerful for us. They put us below a variety of strain.”

After leg-break bowler Kushal Bhurtel (4 for 19) and off-spinner Dipendra Singh Airee (3 for 21) restricted the Proteas to 115 for seven batting first, Aasif Sheikh (42) and Anil Sah (27) featured in a 50-run third-wicket partnership which pulled the Nepalese inside touching distance of a outcome which might have stored their hopes alive of attending to the Tremendous Eight part of the match.

Dropped on one to a caught-and-bowled probability by pacer Kagiso Rabada in simply the second over of the innings, opening batsman Sheikh noticed off the primary menace of Tabraiz Shamsi just for the left-arm wrist-spinner to return for a last over within the 18th over of the innings to assert each Sah and Sheikh in ending with the wonderful figures of 4 for 19.

Anrich Nortje then bowled Kushal Malla within the nineteenth over to tilt the steadiness South Africa’s method they usually simply managed to hold on for the win amid insufferable rigidity.

Sandeep Lamichhane, denied a visa to enter the US which stored him out of the primary two matches, went wicketless via 4 overs of South Africa’s innings however his mere presence appeared to carry his teammates after their captain, Rohit Paudel, gained an essential toss and put the Proteas in.

Already assured of a spot within the Tremendous Eight part of the match and absolutely anticipating to shut out the group marketing campaign with a fourth win in as many matches, not one of the South African top-order had been capable of get on high of the bowling, though opener Reeza Hendricks managed to provide the innings some type of stability with a topscore of 43 off 49 balls (5 fours, one six).

Nepal’s bowlers had been of their factor all through the innings with solely a late effort by Tristan Stubbs (27 not out off 18 balls) inflicting them some concern earlier than Bhurtel closed off the innings with the wickets of Marco Jansen and Kagiso Rabada off successive balls.

“I believe I’m very happy with the unit, particularly the way in which we bowled and batted,” Nepal captain Paudel mentioned.

“I believed we fought superb. If we get extra publicity to video games like this, we might be on the opposite aspect.”

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