India will face Australia in the final of the World Cup Cricket. India has already reached the final, while in the other semi-final, Australia has defeated South Africa by three wickets. There will be a match between India and Australia for the World Cup title on 19 November. Australia has reached the final for the eighth time, while South Africa has been out of the ODI World Cup semi-finals for the fifth time. Australia defeated South Africa in a closely contested and low-scoring match.
The stain of chokers remained with South Africa in this World Cup also. The South African team, which scored big in the tournament, could not score big in this semi-final match, the result of which was that Australia easily defeated South Africa. However, to win, Australia also had to use all its strength in this match. But Australia, which has won the World Cup five times, acted with patience and wisdom in difficult times and won the match.
South Africa’s David Miller played a difficult inning of 101 runs and South Africa gave Australia a target of 213 runs to win. South Africa looked under pressure at the beginning of the match and its four main batsmen De Kock, captain Tenwa Vavuma, Rassie Van Dusen and Aiden Markram quickly returned to the pavilion. At that time the team’s score was only 24 runs. For Australia, Mitchell Starc bowled brilliantly and took three wickets, while Josh Hazlewood took two wickets. The game was stopped for 40 minutes due to rain and at that time South Africa’s score was 44 runs for 4 wickets. After this, Miller batted brilliantly and scored his sixth ODI century in 116 balls with the help of eight fours and five sixes. However, this was also South Africa’s first century in a World Cup knockout.
While chasing the target, Trevix Head gave a fast start to the Australian team. Australia had scored 60 runs in the first 6 overs, but on this total they lost the wicket of Travix and from then onwards the South African bowlers dominated Australia. Australia’s wickets continued to fall with Steve Smith and Josh English managing the innings to some extent and keeping Australia in the game. In the last over, the pair of Mitchell Starc and Pete Kemens led Australia to victory.
On this turning pitch, South Africa’s Miller did not face any problem in batting, he was scoring runs quite easily on the ball of Adam Zampa. He also hit a big six of 94 meters on the ball of Pete Cummings. The century scored by David Miller is the 39th century of this tournament. With this century, a new record was also created for the most centuries in a single edition of the ICC World Cup, before which 38 centuries were scored in the World Cup in 2015.
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