South Africa began their T20 World Cup with a victory at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, taking 16.4 overs to chase Sri Lanka’s modest 77
South Africa’s Quinton de Kock, who top-scored with 20, hits a six. The match included just 12 boundaries: six fours and six sixes across both innings.South Africa’s Quinton de Kock, who top-scored with 20, hits a six. The match included just 12 boundaries: six fours and six sixes across both innings.Mon 3 Jun 2024 20.
It is a scaffold palace of a pop-up stadium, 30 miles outside Manhattan. A crowd of 12,500 locals travelled out on the Long Island Rail Road to watch, and were rewarded with a beautiful day for a game. The sun was out, the sky was blue,Holding a World Cup in New York is an absurdly ambitious venture.
But the truth is that the drop-in pitch is a stinker. Only one batsman managed to score at faster than a run a ball, and that was Reeza Hendricks who made four. Overall, the game was played at a rate of just over four an over, and included all of 12 boundaries, six fours and six sixes, across both innings.games go, it made a good advert for Test cricket because it was oddly compelling despite the slow scoring, in that way low‑scoring games can be.
It didn’t help them any that South Africa have such a mean attack for this kind of pitch, with four fast bowlers – two of them, Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje, quicker than most, and another, Marco Jansen, taller than any. In the end it was the other one, Ottniel Baartman, who took control of the innings. He came on first change and had Pathum Nissanka caught at deep third with his very first ball.
Sri Lanka’s solution was to send Wanindu Hasaranga up the order to attack the South Africa spinner Keshav Maharaj. Only Hasaranga was stumped off his second ball. Then Sadeera Samarawickrama was bowled by one after it. It took a couple of sixes from Mathews, and another from Dasun Shanaka to get their score up as high as the temperature. Their efforts were put into perspective by South Africa’s own trundling innings. You’ve never seen a team make a harder task of running down a target of 78.
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