ICC World Twenty20 Super Eights: Parnell Gives SA Cheer Against Weary Windies

South Africa only further highlighted their ascendancy in their Super Eights match against the West Indies, playing their second Super Eight match in less than twenty-four hours, in the ICC World Twenty20 in England.
South Africa’s top three batsmen clicked well for South Africa to post a formidable total of 183. Once again South Africa opted for the opening duo of South Africa captain Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis. Herschelle Gibbs added the dynamism to the innings with an explosive fifty-five off thirty-five balls. Smith made thirty-one and Kallis made forty-five in a rock solid partnership that shaped the South African innings, notwithstanding Jerome Taylor’s three wickets.
Thereafter the West Indies’ chase suffered a huge setback as nineteen year old Wayne Parnell, who led South Africa in the last under-19 World Cup, picked up four wickets en route to derailing West Indies’ trail. It overshadowed the fact that the West Indies had a resolute Lendl Simmons’ whose seventy-seven certainly kept West Indies in the hunt. The thing that hurt the West Indies most was the lack of more partnerships that could have tested South Africa’s nerve.
But another man rising quickly in the ranks is Roelof van der Merwe and his crucial breakthrough, that of Simmons, signaled the end of the resistance for the West Indies and a growing stature for the South Africans in the competition, winning this one relatively comfortably by twenty runs.

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