Newly crowned number one cricket team of the world South Africa made it to the next round of super eight along with New Zealand. Both the teams registered easy wins over minnow teams of Scotland and Kenya respectively yesterday.
In reply to a modest Scottish total of 186 for the fall of 8 wickets, the proteas raced swiftly to a score 134 in just 15 over because of solid first wicket partnership of skipper Graeme Smith & AB de Villiers. Ultimately, South Africa completed the formality in the 24th over itself and registered a 7 wickets win over Scotland. Now, they face the defending champion Australia in their last league match on 24th of March.
On the other hand, New Zealand posted an impressive score of 331 for the fall of seven wickets in their 148 runs win over Kenya in Group C match at St Lucia. Though Kenya made an attempt to accomplish that grand total but was unable to muster enough sustainable batting performance except that of Ravindu Shah & Thomas Odoyo who played resilient knocks of 71 and 42 respectively.
Ross Taylor, Craig McMillan, Scott Styris and skipper Stephen Fleming made significant contributions in registering such a mammoth score with scores of 85, 71, 63 & 60 respectively.
Kenya now has to play England in a bid to be the second team from Group c to go into the super eight stages and also to grab those extra 2 points that could prove crucial for a win in the 2nd stage of the world cup.
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