RSA vs WI Dream11 Prediction

RSA vs WI Match Preview

South Africa has now lost three T20I games in a row. Batting first in their last match South Africa scored 131 runs for the loss of 8 wickets from 11 overs. We got a rain-curtailed game of cricket in this case. The South African side got off to a disastrous start when they lost Quinton de Kock on the first ball of their innings. Reeza Hendricks scored 21 runs from 12 balls with a couple of sixes to provide momentum to the South African innings. But it was David Miller who took the total to a sizable one.

David Miller hammered 48 runs from 22 balls with 3 sixes and 4 fours. During the last over of the innings Sisanda Magala scored 18 runs from 5 balls with 2 sixes and a four. South Africa set a challenging total of 131 runs from 11 overs for the West Indies outfit. The South African bowlers were taken to cleaners by the West Indies batters but Anrich Nortje bowled economically during the carnage, bowling 3 overs for 17 runs and picking up a wicket as well. the most successful bowler for South Africa was Sisanda Magala who picked up 3 wickets for 21 runs.

The West Indies bowlers used during the South African innings were all among wickets. All of them picked up at least one wicket each. However, all the West Indies bowlers went for more than 10 runs per over in the first match of the series. Odean Smith and Sheldon Cottrell picked up 2 wickets apiece while giving away 27 and 31 runs from their 2 and 3 overs respectively. Other bowlers from the West Indies such as Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, and Romario Shepherd also picked up a wicket apiece in the game.

The West Indies' reply to the South African total got off to an average start. The opening batsman Kyle Mayers was dismissed for 6 runs when the score was 17 runs. But the other opener Brandon King made a good contribution with the bat scoring 23 runs from 8 balls with 2 sixes and 2 fours. This contribution was followed by another good one from Johnson Charles who scored 28 runs from 14 balls with 3 sixes and one four. However, the real game-changing innings were played by the skipper Rovman Powell who hit 43 from just 18 balls with 5 sixes to guide his side across the line.