South Africa beat England today, it was their first loss. I'm not sure what happened with England's bowlers, they let SA put up 189/2, yes, 2. van der Dussen with 94 and Markram with 52. They did manage to claw back 179 of those but if my maths is correct, that's 10 short. 3 wicket haul to Rabada. Other than a bruised ego England didn't suffer for their loss and still end the round at the top of their group. SA unfortunately misses out and will be going home, they did finish with 8 points but lost out to Australia on net run rate.
Australia meanwhile secured there berth in the semis by beating the West Indies. Although from what I hear, it was more of a party atmosphere rather than a hard fought cricket match. International cricket will be saying goodbye to the Windies Bravo and Gayle. I don't know much about cricket but I did get a chance to see them both play in person and Gayle cracked a 6 that smashed a window. So congrats boys on you careers, you will be missed.
meanwhile in group 2 Pakistan is through (I think there is a very small chance that if the stars aligned just so they would go through but ...) there are 3 teams however that could feasibly take the 2nd spot, New Zealand, India, and Afghanistan. NZ has the best chance but they are playing Afghanistan tomorrow so it won't be easy.
Has your captain gone through? Do you have enough trades left? Lots of worming left to be done
Oh dear, England.... Just when we thought.... Bravo and Gayle were really on form with the jokes yesterday and it was lovely to see. Great players! And the Australians got involved too.
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