Monday, March 28, 2011

South Africa keeps Chokers tag

South Africa always entered the big tournaments as favorite to lift the trophy and were out because of team not performing on the decider game as they are called chokers. 
In the 3rd quarter final game against New Zealand they threw it away from the winning situation.

Vettori winning the toss elected bat first but they just manged 221 for the loss of 9 wickets against good discipline bowling effort by South African bowlers. Ryder made 83, Taylor and williamsom contributed 43 and 38 not out respectively. Morkel picked up 3 wickets, Styen and Tahir shared 2 wickets each.
In reply South Africa cruising at one stage on 108 for 2 at 24 overs but they made a big collapse and were all out on 172. Losing last 8 wickets in 64 runs.Kallis was the top scorer with 47 , Du plesis and De villiers contributed with 36 and 35 respectively. Oram was the pick of the bowlers with 4 wickets and N mccullum picked up 3 wickets.
Oram was declared man of the match for his brilliant bowling performance.

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