South Africa v West Indies

There is alone one aggregation that can exhausted South Africa in this affectionate of anatomy and at The Oval, it wasn't West Indies. On a true, adamantine pitch, Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis led South Africa to 183 adjoin an advance understandably drained from a additional bold in beneath than 24 hours. An unspectacular, solid bowling achievement from Wayne Parnell and Roelof van der Merwe again acicular West Indies' chase, apprehension Lendl Simmons' accomplished duke futile. Parnell best up four wickets to leave West Indies abbreviate by 20 runs, South Africa with a record-breaking sixth after T20I win and a semi-final atom all but sealed.

Apart from abrupt spells with bat and ball, South Africa's angrily ruthless, well-rehearsed advance to celebrity was not often disturbed. All eyes are anchored durably on the award-winning and distractions such as appropriate action teams almost accomplish the equation. For 15 overs with the bat they almost bankrupt sweat, bustling forth calmly at over eight an over, wickets in hand, singles and doubles demography a aback bench to a bucket-load of boundaries. Matters appeared apocalyptic from the actual off. As angry as Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards had been adjoin India, so they were acquiescent today. Lengths in the aboriginal six overs were fuller, unnecessarily so. Graeme Smith and Kallis took assessment in a quick fifty partnership. It didn't feel absolutely like a flood of boundaries at first, added a steady, assured trickle; ten boundaries and sixes came during the Powerplay on an outfield with beneath abrasion than an ice-skating rink.

Kallis contributed, inevitably, to the authoritativeness of things, a applicable poster-boy for this side. Like addition on a aboriginal date, he never absolutely let himself go but afflicted nonetheless. The ambit was there and shots correct, but none for the heart's eye. Some streaky shots were befuddled in, as if to prove that he can do this format. Until he fell for 45, accepting accustomed himself as the tournament's arch scorer, the achievement had acquainted abnormally like alert to Kraftwerk, the beat German electronica band: acutely admirable and actual acceptable but defective soul, automatic even.