On the final day of the T20 World Cup 2021 Group 1 of Super 12 round, South Africa defeated England by 10 runs, but still couldn’t qualify for the T20 World Cup 2021 semi-finals, and some fans seems confused about it.
T20 World Cup 2021 Super 12 round’s Group 1 matches are officially over and on the last day of the group’s play, South Africa defeated the hot favourite England to wrap it off, but even after that, South Africa didn’t qualify for the T20 World Cup 2021 semi-finals, but why ?
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Well actually, if you look at the points table of the group, England, Australia and South Africa holds the same amount of points, but it is still South Africa who missed out on the semi-finals berth. Even if the three teams holds the same amount of points, South Africa has the worst net run rate (NRR) among the teams, because of which they finished behind England and Australia.
On the last day of the Group 1’s play, Australia defeated West Indies in the 1st match of the day, which took them to 8 points as well, and then South Africa defeated England to also reach 8 points, while England already had 8 points from their previous 4 wins.
South Africa Qualification Scenario was like this
Actually for South Africa to qualify for the semi-finals, they needed Australia to lose their match against West Indies and they needed to win against England, while the latter did happen, but the earlier result was not in their favour.
However, they could have still knocked out Australia. South Africa posted 189 runs on the board, thanks to a brilliant inning from Rassie Van Der Dussen, who scored 94 runs of 60 balls. But to knock out Australia, they needed to stop England before 131 runs, which they failed as England scored 179 runs. Thus, couldn’t overtake Australia in the net run rate.
New Zealand vs Afghanistan T20 World Cup 2021
The action continues in the T20 World Cup 2021 today as well with undoubtedly the big match today will be the match between Afghanistan and New Zealand, which will decide the fate of the two teams as well as India’s fate in the T20 World Cup 2021. All the three teams still stands a chance to qualify for the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2021 from group 2 along with Pakistan. But all depends on this match between Afghanistan and New Zealand, to be played today, 7th November.
