Dylan Bettencourt
Abadlali bekhilikithi baseNingizimu Afrika benze ubuhlakani bokuphosa ekunqobeni kwabo ngamawikhethi ayisithupha okubayisa kumdlalo owodwa wokudlulela kowandulela kowamanqamu kwindebe yomhlaba wonke ye-T20.
Emidlalweni wesithathu olandelanayo, ukaputeni wama-Proteas uTemba Bavuma uwine i-toss wakhetha ukuthola iphuzu. Kubonakale kuyisinqumo esihle.
Abadlali bekhilikithi baseNingizimu Afrika badlale kahle kakhulu njengoba abaphosa ngesivinini bekhombise ukuhluleka kwe-Bangladesh. U-Kagiso Rabada no-Anrich Nortje bakwazile ukuthola amawikhethi ayisithupha futhi badedele ama-runs angama-28 kuphela phakathi kwabo.
UDwane Pretorius kanye noTabraiz Shamsi bahlanganise amawikhethi njengoba i-Bangladesh iphume yonke ngama-runs angama-84.
I-Protea bowling ibone iqembu lithola amawikhethi alandelanayo izikhathi ezintathu ezihlukene, lathola amawikhethi ayisithupha asewone ngaphandle kokulahlekelwa ama-runs.
Ngaphandle kokujaha ama-runs angama-84 kuphela, ama-Proteas adlale ngokuzimisela. U-Reeza Hendricks uphumile ngesikhathi enza ama-runs amane nje vo kwathi u-Quinton de Kock wabanjwa ngemuva kokushaya ayi-16. U-Aiden Markram uphumile futhi ingcindezi ibonakale inamandla kuma-Proteas.
Nokho, uBavuma ukhombise ubuholi bakhe futhi waqinisa umkhumbi ngama-runs angama-31 ukuholela iNingizimu Afrika ekunqobeni obekudingeka kakhulu, eqeda umdlalo ngama-overs ayi-14 kuphela.
IQembu lokuqala le-Super 12 selisondele kakhulu futhi kubukeka sengathi kuzomele kuthathwe isinqumo sokuthi ngubani ozoba yiqembu lesibili elizodlulela phambili ngemuva kwe-England. Kuningi okushiwo mayelana ne-net yama-Proteas, inani elisetshenziswa ukucacisa abawinile uma amaqembu enamaphuzu afanayo.
Ama-Proteas azobhekana ne-England, okuyiqembu okungangabazeki ukuthi yilona elihamba phambili emqhudelwaneni ose-England ngoMgqibelo. INingizimu Afrika idinga ukunqoba uma izimisele ngokudlulela phambili ngaphandle kokuthi i-Australia ishibilike kweminye yemidlalo yayo emibili esele.
Kuzobe sekuseduze, kuzobaluleka kakhulu, futhi kuzobe kuqhudelana kakhulu njengoba ama-Proteas ehlose ukufinyelela kowandulela owamanqamu okwesithathu kuphela emlandweni wawo.
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