SA vs BAN

Key features of the match –

1. Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib Al Hasan built a partnership of 142 runs for the 3rd wicket stand.

2. Mahmudullah and Mosaddek Hossain had a good death batting by scoring 54 runs off the last 4 overs, to finish the game the way it was started by Soumya Sarkar.

3. Lungi Ngidi’s injury a concern for South Africa’s bowling attack.

4. The first Asian team to play a total of 50 overs (before India’s game) and to post the highest total of World Cup 2019 till now.

5. Kagiso Rabada not getting a single wicket in his 10 over spell was one of the primary reasons for Bangladesh to get to a total of 330.

6. The first upset of the World Cup 2019 having Bangladesh defeating South Africa.

7. Every South African batsman started their innings well off but couldn’t build a strong partnership or build their individual innings, after the foundation was laid, as well, except for Faf who put up a 62.

Post-match Analysis –

1. South Africa’s bowling attack a concern for them in this tournament conceding 300+ runs in both their matches ahead of India’s match.

2. Bangladesh coming off with a Tri-Series victory against West Indies and Ireland and posting a 330 against SA and winning it as well is a wake-up call for all the contesting teams to not count them out of the tournament so easily.

3. Bangladesh is here proving a point and have started off really strong and might make more upsets in this tournament further on.

4. South Africa play their 3rd match against India who’s playing their 1st, on 5th, with both resulting into losses as of now for the former. Whereas the latter is fresh after a strong batting display by the middle order in the 2nd warm-up against the same Bangladesh attack which got SA to fail tonight.

5. India having a strong top order against a strong South African bowling attack but not been able to trouble the batsmen in the first two games. Hence, giving India the edge knowing SA’s strengths and weaknesses ahead of their first game.

Bangladesh play their next against New Zealand, both coming with a win on the same day as South Africa taking on India, on 5th June 2019.

Up next tomorrow – England vs Pakistan.

England come off with a convincing win by 104 runs against the Proteas, whereas Pakistan just managed to score a 105 against the Windies suffering a huge loss causing their NRR to be the worst on the points table currently.

Both played against each other in a recently concluded 5 match bilateral ODI series which resulted in 4-0 with 1 coming off as a No Result. Thereby making England the favorites for tomorrow’s fixture.