http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 v Bangladesh - Second Innings: Tsotsobe and Petersen run through the Bangladeshi batting
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bengal-c771 Tigers but their batting fell like a house
of cards and failed to cope with the experienced bowling attack of the Proteas.
Chasing a huge target to qualify for the quarter-finals, the home team’s batsmen succumbed to pressure and could not put up any sort of a fight. Apart from the captain Shakib Al http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990, none of the Bengali batsmen were able to reach the double figures and
as a result the whole team was blown away by the South African bowlers for only 78 runs.
Shakib remained the top scorer for the home team with 30 runs which came off 49 balls with the help of four boundaries.
Robin Petersen was the star of the show for the Proteas as he grabbed four wickets for just 12 runs in his seven overs. He has been a real revelation for the South Africans in this tournament considering the fact that Petersen was not a permanent member
of the Proteas playing 11 before the mega event.
Left arm seamer, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, broke the back of the home team’s batting by picking up three wickets at the start of the innings. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Tahir took a wicket each to help their team’s cause. Tsotsobe was named as the Player of the Match
for his magical spell at the start of the Bangladeshi innings.
This is an extremely disappointing result for Bangladesh as this is the second time in the tournament that they have been bowled out under a hundred runs. Bangladesh had a great opportunity to qualify for the next round of the showpiece event but now they
are effectively out of the competition unless the West Indians are beaten badly by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 tomorrow.
South Africa on the other hand have finished on top of group B’s points table with 10 points, this means that they will take the weaker team of the other group in the quarter-final, either http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754.
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