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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Samuels helps Windies into World T20 semis

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An ex­cel­lent bowl­ing and field­ing per­for­mance by the West In­dies team land­ed them a place in the semi­fi­nal of 2016 ICC World T20, with a sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over South Africa at the VCA Sta­di­um in Nag­pur yes­ter­day.

The win was the third suc­ces­sive by the Caribbean side and puts them at the top of the stand­ings in Group 1, with six points from three match­es.

Two wick­ets apiece from Dwayne Bra­vo, An­dre Rus­sell and Chris Gayle, backed up by ex­cel­lent field­ing, saw the South Africans crawl to 122 for eight off their 20 overs. Their fate would have been worse but for a 46-ball 47 from wick­et­keep­er/bats­man Quin­ton de Kock and a com­posed 28 from David Wiese.

West In­dies left to get the rel­a­tive­ly sim­ple task of 123 runs from 20 overs, made heavy weath­er of the tar­get, leav­ing it un­til the fi­nal over to get over the line.

It was down to 20 runs need­ed from 12 balls and Man of the Match Mar­lon Samuels took two fours off Chris Mor­ris, but got out in the same over.

Car­los Brath­waite and De­nesh Ramdin were left to get nine runs off the fi­nal over bowled by Kag­iso Raba­da and they got the runs with two balls to spare.

Samuels stood tall on a slow pitch to record a ma­ture 43 off 42 balls. Dur­ing his in­nings the Ja­maican crossed 1000 runs in T20 crick­et, the sec­ond West In­di­an be­hind Chris Gayle to achieve the mark.

South Africa was in the game un­til the 11th over af­ter the ear­ly loss of Gayle (4) and An­dre Fletch­er (11). Open­er John­son, far from his best, blud­geoned his way to 32 in a part­ner­ship of 24 with Samuels that got West In­dies back on track.

Ear­li­er, West In­di­an en­er­gy, which has been a fea­ture of this tour­na­ment, was on dis­play from the first over, when a bril­liant piece of Rus­sell's field­ing saw Hashim Am­la shak­ing his head and walk­ing back to the dug out.

Sulie­man Benn con­tin­ued the im­pres­sive field­ing with a low catch, div­ing for­ward at mid-off to send back skip­per Faf du Plessis. The mo­men­tum was so much with the West In­dies team that any­thing they touched turned to gold. Sam­my called on a man who did not bowl in a T20 in­ter­na­tion­al for six years and he de­liv­ered. Gayle took out Ri­ley Rossouw and then the "chest roll" fol­lowed.

The coup de gras was de­liv­ered soon af­ter by Dwayne Bra­vo, who sent a slow de­liv­ery crash­ing un­to the tim­bers of the West In­di­an neme­sis AB de Vil­liers, with the score at 46/4. Gayle then re­turned and cas­tled David Miller for a duck.

Open­er de Kock was still there and had the best seat in the house to view half his side go down.

The West In­dies will stay in Nag­pur and play their fi­nal group match against Afghanistan to­mor­row at 5.30 am TT time.

SCORE­BOARD

WEST IN­DIES vs SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa inns

H Am­la run out 1

Q de Kock b Rus­sell 47

F du Plessis c Benn b Rus­sell 9

R Rossouw c Rus­sell b Gayle 0

AB de Vil­liers b Bra­vo 9

D Miller b Gayle 0

D Wiese c Sam­my b Bra­vo 28

C Mor­ris not out 16

A Phangiso run out 4

Ex­tras 6

To­tal for 8 wk­ts(20ovs) 122

Fall of wk­ts: 1, 13, 20, 46, 47,97, 112, 122.

Bowl­ing: S Badree 3�0�22�0, A Rus­sell 4�0�28�2, C Gayle 3�0�17�2, S Benn 4�0�20�0, C Brath­waite 2�0�11�0, D Bra­vo 4�0�20�2.

West In­dies inns

J Charles c du Plessis b Wiese 32

C Gayle b Raba­da 4

A Fletch­er run out 11

M Samuels c de Vil­liers

b Mor­ris 43

D Bra­vo c Wiese b Phangiso 8

A Rus­sell c Miller b Tahir 4

D Sam­my b Tahir 0

C Brath­waite not out 10

D Ramdin not out 1

Ex­tras 10

To­tal for 7 wk­ts (19.4ovs) 123

Fall of wk­ts: 5, 34, 66, 87, 100, 100, 113.

Bowl­ing: K Raba­da 3.4�0�41�1, C Mor­ris 4�0�33�1, D Wiese 4�0�19�1, A Phangiso 4�0�19�1, I Tahir 4�0�13�2.

Re­sult: West In­dies won by 7 wk­ts.

West In­dies 2 pts.

Man of the match: Mar­lon Samuels (WI)


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