Just when they looked dead and buried in the desert David Miller smashed SA to a nerve jangling T20 World Cup win over Sri Lanka in Sharjah on Saturday.
The four-wicket win keeps alive their prospects in the so called group of death, while Sri Lanka now face long odds to progress to the next phase.
Wanindu Hasaranga took the third hat trick in the history of the competition to help shackle the SA chase but captain Temba Bavuma showed grit to keep his team in the contest with a run-a-ball 46. He was duly restored with Heinrich Klaasen missing out and the left hander might have felt a little pressure when he padded up.
Their reply required patience, alertness to opportunity, and the ruthless punishment of the bad ball.When SA needed composure they got exactly the opposite from Bavuma and Rassie van der Dussen The allrounder has been deployed as a death bowler and again he bowled with precision guile as the Sri Lanka stuttered in the closing overs.Two boundaries behind the wicket was half of what Kagiso Rabada deserved in his first over.
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