South Africa will keep in mind their stunning defeat by the hands of Netherlands for a very long time. They misplaced to a spirited Dutch facet within the Tremendous 12 fixture of the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2022 in Adelaide on Sunday, November 6.
The Proteas wanted a win to qualify for the semifinals with seven factors of their kitty. However with simply 5 factors now, they head again house as Pakistan and India turned the 2 semifinalists from Group 2.
Flaccid bowling allowed the Netherlands to submit a aggressive 158/4 on the board, and even flatter batting restricted South Africa to 145/8 in reply. After the loss, a heartbroken Temba Bavuma opened up about his future as South Africa’s captain.
“To be contemplating that now, plenty of it will be emotional,” Bavuma mentioned within the post-match convention. “It’s in all probability one thing I’ll take into consideration. I’ll converse to the related folks.”
The 2022 T20 World Cup will probably be Mark Boucher’s final as South Africa’s head coach. His successor might consider relieving Bavuma from the captaincy job.
“I’ll must see who is available in as coach. When you’ve gotten modifications like that they arrive in with their very own fashion, and so they would possibly discover a totally different chief to execute no matter imaginative and prescient and magnificence of play that they’ve,” Bavuma added.
“However it will be emotional now if I considered all of that. No matter occurs I feel I’ve carried myself with dignity by means of all the great and the dangerous instances. If I have been to go away I would depart with my delight intact.”
In 33 T20Is, Bavuma has scored 635 runs at a median of twenty-two.67 and a strike charge of 116.08. His kind was the speaking level forward of the beginning of this World Cup. Within the ongoing match, the right-handed batter may handle solely 70 runs in 5 innings as an opener at a strike charge of 112.90. He acquired out after scoring a run-a-ball 20 in his staff’s must-win sport in opposition to the Netherlands.