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The fifth match of Super 8 of T20 World Cup 2024 was played between South Africa and England. South Africa won this match by 7 runs and claimed for the semi-final. However, there was a time when it seemed that the England team would win this match easily, but that was not necessarily the case. Something similar happened to England and the outcome of the match changed in the last 18 balls. The whole story of how England slipped away from the brink of victory is hidden in the last three overs.
Actually England team was chasing a target of 164 runs. At one point the team was in trouble, as 4 wickets fell for 61 runs. However, after this, Harry Brook and Liam Livingstone turned the match around by batting mischievously. England needed just 25 runs from the last 18 balls i.e. 3 overs to win, but the team captained by Jos Buttler could only manage 17 runs off 18 balls and lost the match by a margin of 7 runs. Know what happened in the last 18 balls that made the match slip out of England’s hands.
Like South Africa, Kagiso Rabada bowled the 18th over, conceding just four runs and dismissing Liam Livingstone. In this way the South African team returned to the match. Marco Jansen bowled the 19th over. He spent only seven runs. Also at the crease was Harry Brook, who batted consistently well and also completed a half-century. England needed 14 runs to win in the last over, but Enrique Norrgia dismissed Harry Brooke on the first ball. After this the rest of the batsmen could score only 6 runs and England lost the match by 7 runs. This is how Jos Buttler’s team looked on.