Sharjah: South Captain Captain Temba Bavuma described his T20 World Cup campaign as “bitter” after Proteas fell from the tournament despite beating England with 10 runs in the Super 12 final match here on Saturday.
Proteas, who has scored 189 for 2 after being sent to Bat, is needed to limit Britain to 131 to overtake Australia in the net run rate and qualify for the semifinals but it does not become their day.
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However, they will leave the T20 World Cup in the UAE with their high heads and intact pride.
Besides, Australia and South Africa each ended at eight eight points but the first two teams managed to reach the semifinals because they had more net running levels Good than.
South Africa (NRR +0.739) was knocked out.
England (NRR +2.464) topped Group 1 while Australia (NRR +1,216), which defeated West Indies the previous day, finished second.
“Victory is important, but the bitter ends for us.
Achieve what we want to do in terms of winning, but don’t win pretty well.
We give it all with our bats and with balls,” Bavuma said in post- presentation matches.
“Starting from the tournament (net run rate) is not a big factor, we feel we want to win the match.
It’s hard to publish NRR into our last match, especially against the side like England.
But it is very proud of the side and think there is a lot we can take.
From this, “he said.
“We have to build trust and momentum, this will give us experience and learning that we can take from this World Cup forward.” England Skipper Eoin Morgan said Jason Roy’s injury at the beginning of the pursuit did not help their purposes.
“I thought it was a lot, thinking it was a good goal, South Africa came hard and struggled well.
I thought we were pretty good and resisted them with par scores.” Come, with dew in, we think.
We are right in it.
Jason Roy down didn’t help, but we thought we were right in it.
Every match tests us in a different way.
The biggest test in the group stage is Sri Lanka, must stick before the entrance dew, then loses Bowler maintains a low score, “Morgan said.” Today, a different goal, our dough can be more expressive and bowlers must find defensive mode.
“Morgan said England had built sufficient bench strength to handle injury setbacks.” We have dealt with injury, (Ben) Stokes, (SAM) Curran, (Jofra) Archer is not here.
We have talent entering, giving us confidence.
We have built a group of white ball players, so we have to investigate it.
“British Skipper said they only need to enjoy in the remaining games from the tournament.” Very happy, group topping, we know how difficult it is to pass.
Final is about going and expressing yourself, enjoy it, so we will do that, “Morgan said, disappointed that all his efforts were in vain.” In the context it doesn’t really mean, we know we have to get a good score on the board and we have Asking a lot of Bowler, it might also be a lot to take us to the semifinals.
“But it’s still a good solid in defeating a good side.
The type of goal is where you enter, you are much more effective.
You see it behind their round.
Aiden (Markram) and I know if we take it.
Finally we will be competitive,” he said .
“It’s difficult, the three places are very different.
From a punch point of view which is a challenge, and batting units are adjusted to the most successful fastest.”