Player of the Match
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2035dThe Bulletin by Osman Samiuddin

Parnell keeps South African juggernaut rolling

Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis led South Africa to 183 and solid bowling from Wayne Parnell and Roelof van der Merwe then spiked West Indies' chase

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

LMP Simmons
LMP Simmons
77(50) 12x4 - 1x6
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on back foot
  • 16 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
2 4 4 8 34 4 8 13
HH Gibbs
55(35) 8x4 - 1x6
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 25 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
0 8 11 1 7 9 11 8

Best performances - Bowlers

WD Parnell
WD Parnell
O4
M0
R13
W4
Eco3.25
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
JE Taylor
JE Taylor
O4
M0
R30
W3
Eco7.50
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

END OF OVER:
20 | 4 Runs | WI: 163/9 (21 runs required, RR: 8.15)

  • Fidel Edwards2 (2b)
  • Sulieman Benn13 (9b)
  • Wayne Parnell4-0-13-4
  • Dale Steyn4-0-30-2

How things have come full circle. While South Africa, with two wins and a good net run-rate will back themselves to go through to semis, West Indies are not out yet. To stay in contention, though, they will have to beat... drum roll... England. After what they have been through with England over the last three months, now this: another match, with a semi-final place riding on it. What fun. Join us for that too. Until the, okay bye

Gayle: We didn't get a good start with the bat. Losing two wickets set us apart. Having said that, Lendl batted really well to give us a chance. He is in good form, and we have an important game to go against England. We have a good chance against them."

Smith: Very pleased. To post 180 was a good effort, we slowed down a bit with their good bowling but it was a good effort over all. It's a difficult field to defend, and we did well. Lendl Simmons played a great knock, so we had to fight harder."

Parnell, the Man of the Match: I took confidence from the England and gave my 100%. I actually believe this is a batsmen's game, but if you bowl really well you can get wickets. I have developed those yorkers over the last 10 months."

And with that, South Africa become the first team to string together six wins in a row in Twenty20 internationals. They were just too strong for West Indies, who were not aggressive enough with their bowling and batting starts. And Parnell, wow, what a display of consistent bowling of accurate yorkers. Simmons and Gibbs played two gems, but SA were too strong in the end

19.6
1
Parnell to Edwards, 1 run, low fulltoss and a single to finish this off, strong win for SA
19.5
1
Parnell to Benn, 1 run, fulltoss this time, and played down the ground for one
19.4
0
Parnell to Benn, no run, another yorker, this is boring, Wayne, another dot ball. But seriously, superb display of consistent yorkers
19.3
1
Parnell to Edwards, 1 run, another yorker, lovely accurate bowling
19.2
1
Parnell to Benn, 1 run, into the pads, turned around the corner
19.1
0
Parnell to Benn, no run, swinging yorker, defended off the back foot

So Parnell has four wickets, and we have one man to go. Can he get a five-for and claim the best-ever figures in a Twenty20 international? Benn to face

West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st4CH GayleADS Fletcher
2nd9CH GayleLMP Simmons
3rd57LMP SimmonsDJ Bravo
4th21S ChanderpaulLMP Simmons
5th42RR SarwanLMP Simmons
6th0RR SarwanKA Pollard
7th9D RamdinKA Pollard
8th1JE TaylorD Ramdin
9th16SJ BennD Ramdin
10th4SJ BennFH Edwards

ICC Men's T20 World Cup

Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND22041.227
IRE2112-0.162
BAN2020-0.996
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
ENG21121.175
PAK21120.85
NED2112-2.025
Group C
TeamMWLPTNRR
SL22040.626
WI21120.715
AUS2020-1.331
Group D
TeamMWLPTNRR
SA22043.275
NZ21120.309
SCOT2020-5.281
Group E
TeamMWLPTNRR
SA33060.787
WI32140.063
ENG3122-0.414
IND3030-0.466
Group F
TeamMWLPTNRR
SL33061.267
PAK32141.185
NZ3122-0.232
IRE3030-2.183