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South Africa (115/7) win a thrilling encounter against Nepal (114/7) by 1 run in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024

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Rohit Paudel-led Nepal is set to face South Africa in a crucial T20 World Cup 2024 Group D match on Saturday in Kingstown, aiming to keep their Super 8 hopes alive.

South Africa, with three victories from three matches, has already secured their place in the Super 8s. Nepal, however, needs to win against both South Africa and Bangladesh in their upcoming matches to advance.

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Squads:

South Africa Squad: Quinton de Kock(w), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram(c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ottneil Baartman, Gerald Coetzee, Ryan Rickelton, Bjorn Fortuin, Tabraiz Shamsi

Nepal Squad: Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh(w), Anil Sah, Rohit Paudel(c), Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Sompal Kami, Gulsan Jha, Karan KC, Sagar Dhakal, Abinash Bohara, Kamal Singh Airee, Lalit Rajbanshi, Sundeep Jora, Pratis GC, Sandeep Lamichhane

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Kagiso Rabada (South Africa player) pre-match Press Conference - 13th June 2024

[Reporter:]

Welcome to St. Vincent. Good to have you here. South Africa through to Super Eights. It's been a good tournament, of course, some like two really close wins. So, what all to look forward to in the game against Nepal?

[Kagiso Rabada:]

Yeah, it's another it's another international match, another fixture and we're not taking them lightly and we're going to try and play some more of the same cricket or even better that we've been playing in the tournament.

[Reporter:]

What you've made out of the wickets so far, a bit of a challenge the ball is back into the game it seems enjoying that the fact that the ball has have held the upper hand so far in the tournament?

[Kagiso Rabada:]

As a bowler, I must say, yeah, I have enjoyed it, 100%. But conditions will probably level out now.

[Reporter:]

The Caribbean experience, you've played cricket here before. What do you think about how different would it be potentially to USA? And also, the fact that we saw the home team getting incredible support the other night in Trinidad. What kind of support do you expect? We saw the end of game earlier today, both Netherlands and Bangladesh having good support. So, looking forward to starting the Caribbean leg?

[Kagiso Rabada:]

Yeah, 100%. I don't know how many South African fans are in St. Vincent, but however, maybe there are like 10 of them, however many of them there are. Hopefully they rock up. But I'm not expecting a whole lot of support. Perhaps maybe some of the locals support South Africa. So hopefully they can turn out numbers.

[Reporter:]

Is the dream for that elusive trophy, of course, now getting stronger? And we've seen South Africa, you also made it to the semifinals in the 50 over World Cup. This team looks incredibly strong and has been doing really well. How is it going? Is it day by day or perhaps it's a target considering the history? Not too much in focus, perhaps to like focus on a game at a time.

[Kagiso Rabada:]

I believe we're going to win it and you just have to take it game by game. You can't look too far ahead.

[Reporter:]

You played with Sandeep [Lamichhane] back in Delhi Dare Devils, and he's back in Nepal team. Do you think his inclusion will have any positive effect in the Nepal team? And how are you looking forward against the class against Nepal?

[Kagiso Rabada:]

Yeah, he's a mystery spinner, so any mystery spinner is going to be tough to play. But I know the guys are really looking forward to facing that challenge.

[Reporter:]

In New York, the batters didn't get the chance to open up, but this is a different pitch. We've seen today's match as well. How do you see your middle order stacking up with the experts in the IPL? We've seen them. Do you think this is the right time for them to open up their arms and get some runs in?

[Kagiso Rabada:]

I actually haven't really seen how the wicket played. I haven't seen the game yet. But according to the nets, there's going to be some turn, and it's going to be a bit slow. But then I'm sure guys are getting to grips with how the wicket is playing and already forming game plans as to how they're going to combat any plans that are formed against us.

[Reporter:]

As a team, when you play a qualifier like Nepal, what basically goes through the mind of a big cricketing nation like South Africa? And what's your plan for tomorrow as a cricketing nation? How much South Africa knows about Nepal?

[Kagiso Rabada:]

To be honest, I don't know a fair amount about how they play. But we have our analysis, and we will do our homework. But I know that they've been really playing more and more over the past number of years. And it's good to see in the game of cricket that it's growing. And like I said earlier, it's not a game that we're going to take lightly. Not at all. We can't take it lightly.

[Reporter:]

You talked about 10 South African fans there. We met around 100 Nepali fans already in St. Vincent. So, you can expect their support as well.

[Kagiso Rabada:]

Ok

[Reporter:]

Just about the format of the tournament, 20 teams competing. What's your take on the format? And we've seen some incredible upsets already. So, enjoying this, again, the gathering of so-called lesser nations. But they're very much punching above their weight, it seems, and giving a really tough run to the full members.

[Reporter:]

I think, like I said earlier, cricket is growing. And not only by the amount of teams that are there, but also with a world event being hosted in America. The West Indies, the different countries in the West Indies are not foreign to hosting world events, but especially with the inclusion of the USA and teams like Uganda, teams like Oman, who have come on and had their chance to shine on the stage, shows that cricket's growing and you look at, and you hope that, you really hope that the fan engagement can grow around the world and you hope that not all eyes are going to all eyes will be on the biggest teams But hopefully they can grow too and cricket can be real world event

[Reporter:]

Finally, about your batters you've had got an incredible batting lineup some next incredibly explosive players who've done really well around the world in various competitions. What's the mood like in the batting camp, especially with the pitches perhaps not being too conducive? Are they getting itchy for the big scores? Do they really want to flex their muscles and hit those big sixes? And any suggestions from you to them as to how they can perhaps go on their business in the upcoming days?

[Kagiso Rabada:]

You want me to say this in a press conference? I think that the guys are really keen for the challenge and with us it's just about winning. Whether we score 96 and win or whether we score 296 and win. At the end of the day, it's about the W. And that's what we've done so far. But I do expect that conditions are going to level up. Because you had the drop-in pitches in the USA. You never really know how they're going to play. And we had an idea of how, a full idea of how they play. And now you've actually got squares that have been there for years, here in these venues. And you'll probably see more competitive scores. And you look at the game between Australia and England, where 200 played 150. So, if you do bat well in these conditions, you can still reach 200. But you want to get a game and find pitches where you have enough in it for the bowlers and enough in it for the batters, because that's essentially what a cricket game is. Otherwise, you might as well just call it batting or you might as well call it bowling.

But, the guys, you can't really judge their form on wickets that we've just played on. As much as it's not an excuse, but common sense would prevail. And you would say that you can't really blame the batters. But in saying that, no one's got any demons. Everyone's moving forward. We play the conditions as we see them. And on our day, we know the sky's a limit in terms of batting.​
 
Nepal are going to get slaughtered here

SA batsmen have been tortured to death in NY on that track, they are going to unleash hell on these poor Nepalis
 
Nepal have won the toss and have opted to field


South Africa (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ottneil Baartman, Tabraiz Shamsi

Nepal (Playing XI): Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh(w), Anil Sah, Rohit Paudel(c), Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gulsan Jha, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Abinash Bohara
 
Lol, zero interest for this game, understandable, now that Super 8 are happening
 
From associates perspective these pitches are great levellers. Even Australia was going nowhere against OMAn for 13 or 14 overs
 
In the Asia cup Nepal scored 65 runs in the first 9.4 overs against Shami and Siraj without losing a wicket
 
This Shamsi bowls some good balls. In between bowls real crappy stuffs. Shreyas Iyer really beat the living daylights out of him.
 
Hmm sa has made it a tradition to lose to atleast one minnow per cup
 
Nepalese people are very passionate about cricket.
It would be good for the fans if they can beat
these IPL superstars.
 
If Nepal qualifies then pakistan cricket team kei moo per @%#^#^#%
 
Devadwal said:
You will get chance again to repeat same line when India will beat australia in final . :kp :dw
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Mate, let's not forget you claimed nz would chase what WI put up easily.

It happens once. Won't happen again
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
South Africa do not look like a champion team. They will crumble against quality spin bowling and don't see them doing well at chasing either
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Yeah all of their matches so far haven't been anything special. We were using the NY excuse for them but it seems NY may have actually helped them get the wins
 
We gotta give some credit to Nepal here. Nortje was bowling at 152 kph. It is not like SA was taking it easy. These guys are just good in these conditions.
 
Nepal need to understand they can't chase even 5 runs in last over

Nepal need 21 runs in 24 balls
 
These south african IPL superstars should only play on Indian roads. They are good for those roads only.
 
Devadwal said:
Your team already out of the Wt20 .

You chose australia because don't have any other option
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I always choose Australia? Now and forever. Wdym? I've vocally explained I don't support Pakistan. Or are you tying me down to a specific country because of origin?
 
followed said:
These south african IPL superstars should only play on Indian roads. They are good for those roads only.
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Actually both QDK and Markram were epic fail in the IPL this season. Stubbs and Klassen were decent. But Klassen failed in few of the crucial games in the IPL.
 
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