West Indies beat South Africa in rain-hit T20 shootout

West Indies beat South Africa in rain-hit T20 shootout

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The West Indies received a comfort win off South Africa after rain lowered their Twenty20 match to a shootout at the Wanderers on Saturday.

South Africa gained the sequence 2-1 and the West Indies gained the last match by six runs on the DLS methodology in an exhilarating end.

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Rain delayed the start of the match for practically two hours and lowered it to 16 overs per facet. The West Indies was 66-1 after six overs when an hour-long rain delay lowered the game to 10 overs per facet.

West Indies reached 114-3. Captain Shai Hope hit 48 runs off 25 balls and Shimron Hetmyer 48 not out off 22. They hit 10 sixes between them. One by Hetmyer hit a spectator in the head while he was mendacity on his again. The man rapidly stood up and clapped.

South Africa’s goal was 125 and it fell brief at 118-6.

Quinton de Kock took 18 off the first over however captain Aiden Markram was caught off a top-edged pull in the second.

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De Kock went for 28 off 14, Ryan Rickelton hit straight to long-on on 15 and Dewald Brevis went two balls in a while 17 as spinner Gudakesh Motie took their wickets in eight balls.

Jason Smith hit 20 runs in the eighth over and South Africa arrived at the final over needing 16 runs to win. It was all the way down to 9 when Smith was bowled by a Shamar Joseph yorker with two balls left.

South Africa acquired good news before the game when David Miller was “medically cleared” to play in his sixth T20 World Cup beginning next weekend. A groin injury sidelined him from the sequence with West Indies.

At the World Cup in India, the West Indies will open against Scotland next Saturday in Kolkata. South Africa begins two days later against Canada in Ahmedabad.

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