Australia beats South Africa to play against India in finals of World Cup 2023

In this match held on Thursday, South Africa won the toss and decided to bat first. The team was all out after scoring 212 runs in 49.4 overs. David Miller scored the highest score of 101 runs. Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins took 3-3 wickets. In reply, Australia achieved the target by losing 7 wickets in 47.2 overs.

Scorecard of South Africa-Australia match

Kangaroo's fast start in powerplay, Markram-Rabada gave shocks
Australia made a great start in the first 6 overs of the powerplay. Travis Head and David Warner scored 60 runs in 6 overs. Rabada gave 21 runs in the sixth over.

Captain Temba Bavuma made a change in the 7th over and Aiden Markram got the wicket of Warner. From here South Africa made a comeback and Mitchell Marsh was also out in the 8th over. Australia could score only 14 runs in the last 4 overs and South Africa got 2 wickets.

South Africa's innings from here

South Africa out for 212 runs, Miller's century
The African team won the toss and batted first and were all out for 212 runs in 49.4 overs.

David Miller played a century inning of 101 runs. He scored his second World Cup century. Miller completed his century with a six. He has become the first South African batsman to score a century in the World Cup knockout.

Earlier, Faf du Plessis had scored 82 runs against New Zealand in the 2015 World Cup semi-final in Auckland. Apart from Miller, Heinrich Klaasen was out after scoring 47 runs. Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets. Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and Travis Head got 2-2 wickets.

Miller's century came in the death overs
The South African team failed to score big in the death overs. However, David Miller completed his century in these overs. David Miller was at the crease for South Africa during the death overs. The team tried to score boundaries in every over. Miller played big shots and completed his century.

Australia bowled brilliantly during this period. The bowlers did not take pressure when they hit boundaries and bowled accurately. The team took wickets in the 44th, 47th and 48th overs and did not allow momentum to build. Australian bowlers all out South Africa by taking 4 wickets in the death overs.

Clason-Miller takes charge of Africa, Head again puts pressure
South African batsmen looked under pressure at the beginning of the middle overs. After losing the fourth wicket for 24 runs in the 12th over, Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller took the innings forward. Both batted till the 31st over. Meanwhile, the pair of Klaasen and Miller took the African innings forward by making a partnership of 95 runs.

The African team was just recovering from the pressure when Tevis Head, who came in the 31st over, again created pressure by taking two consecutive wickets. He broke the 95-run partnership by dismissing Clausen and then showed Marco Janson the way to the pavilion on zero.

In such a situation, Miller took the responsibility of scoring runs and completed the 25th fifty of his ODI career. In the middle 30 overs, South Africa scored 101 runs losing 4 wickets. After 40 overs the score of the African team was 156/6.

Bad start for South Africa, Bavuma out on zero
The South African team, which came to bat after winning the toss, had a bad start. The team lost the wicket of captain Temba Bavuma on the score of one run. He was dismissed by Mitchell Starc in the very first over. Bavuma could not even open an account.

Within 10 runs, the African team also lost the wicket of the second opener Quinton de Kock (3 runs). De Kock was dismissed by Josh Hazlewood. In the first 10 overs, South Africa lost two wickets while scoring 18 runs. Here the team's score was 18/2.

Tabrez Shamsi gets a chance; 2 changes in Australia
There has been one change in the African team, while the Kangaroo team has come with 2 changes. Temba Bavuma has given a chance to Tabraiz Shamsi in place of Lungi Ngidi. At the same time, Pat Cummins has decided to keep Marcus Stoinis and Scott Abbott in the dugout, while giving a chance to Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc.

Playing 11 of both teams
Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa and Josh Hazlewood.

South Africa: Temba Bavuma (captain), Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansson, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Gerald Coetzee.