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South Africa go down with Netherlands throwing the surprise

Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023
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In a big shock to South Africa, it was a majorly wonderful performance from Netherlands which made successfully beat the proteas by (38) runs in the 15th match of the World Cup on Tuesday at HPCA Stadium. Due to rain, the match had been reduced to (43) overs with South Africa putting Netherlands to bat. Netherlands made the superb use with the bat by handing the (246) target to South Africa. After suffering early losses, Netherlands were bolstered by the 78-run knock unbeaten by Scott Edwards which helped Netherlands get to a competitive total. Chasing the target, South Africa lost their top-four wickets in a quick succession that gave Netherlands upper-hand in the game. Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller made some difference with their scores of (28) and (43) respectively but that didn’t last long. Netherlands bowled out South Africa for (207).

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