David Miller made a mind-over-matter fifty on a tricky pitch as South Africa survived some anxious moments to beat their bogey group Netherlands by 4 wickets within the T20 World Cup on Saturday. This was South Africa’s second consecutive win as that they had defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets of their opening Group D match. After SA elected to bowl, pacer Ottneil Baartman registered his finest bowling figures of 4 for 11 as South Africa produced a nice bowling effort to limit Netherlands to 103 for 9. Regardless of some early hiccups, Miller (59 not out off 51) performed a gem of an innings to information South Africa residence with a ball to spare. It was a torrid begin to the run chase for South Africa as they misplaced Quinton de Kock within the first supply by way of a run out. It got here after a horrible mix-up with Reeza Hendricks.

Hendricks too did not final lengthy as he was castled by Logan van Beek within the subsequent over.

If that was not sufficient, skipper Aiden Markram nicked a Vivian Kingma supply to Scott Edwards behind the stumps within the subsequent over.

The scenario turned worse for South Africa when Henrich Klaasen was caught at deep backward square-leg by Tim Pringle off Kingma as SA slumped to 12 for 4 within the fifth over.

When the going was powerful, skilled Miller and younger gun Tristan Stubbs cast an important 65-run fifth-wicket partnership to maintain South Africa within the race.

The duo performed to the event and principally tried to barter the bowlers, whereas Miller picked up a number of boundaries and a six in between to maintain the asking price in examine.

Regardless of dropping wickets on the early levels, South Africa had the wherewithal to overwhelm the paltry goal as Miller and Stubbs performed in line with the scenario, with out taking too many dangers.

Stubbs after which Marco Jansen departed in fast succession however Miller hammered Bas de Leede for 2 sixes and a 4 within the last over to use ending touches to the sport.

Earlier, Baartman returned with spectacular figures, whereas Jansen (2/20) and Anrich Nortje (2/19) picked up two wickets apiece.

South Africa made a vibrant begin, getting the primary breakthrough within the third ball of the innings.

Jansen induced an inside edge from Michael Levitt, which wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock picked up even because the bowler and umpire failed to understand the snick. De Kock immediately went for the assessment and was profitable.

It may have been two down for Netherlands within the third over. Vikramjit Singh’s exterior edge off a brief supply from Jansen was snaffled by De Kock however the bowler had overstepped by a good distance.

The Dutch batters discovered it troublesome to barter South African bowlers on the difficult New York pitch as they saved dropping wickets.

Baartman registered his title within the wickets column when he dismissed Max O’Dowd however the credit score ought to go to Jansen who took a one-handed blinder at first slip.

Vikramjit did not money in on the reprieve as he quickly departed within the subsequent over with Jansen disturbing his timbers.

De Leede too discovered it troublesome to deal with the uneven bounce of the pitch as he ballooned one to Miller at level from a again of a size supply from Nortje.

Netherlands skipper Edwards confirmed some early aggression, scooping Nortje for a six however his SA counterpart Markram discovered him wanting the crease with a direct hit on the non-striker’s finish.

It was raining wickets for South Africa as Nortje dismissed Teja Nidamanuru in the identical over because the batter spooned one to Klaasen at deep third man.

Sybrand Engelbrecht (40 off 45) and Van Beek then shared 54 runs for the seventh wicket to convey some respectability to Netherlands complete.

However as soon as Engelbrecht and Tim Pringle departed within the last over, the writing was on the wall for Netherlands as they might solely muster a below-par complete.