WI vs SA T20 World Cup 2024 Super 8, Highlights: SA prevail in humdinger to qualify for semis; WI knocked out

Tabraiz Shamsi with the figures of 3/27 in his four overs was named the Player of the Match, ahead of Roston Chase who had a terrific game as an all-rounder.

Whoa! South Africa and close games, South Africa and knockouts, they just keeping raising the blood pressure of their fans but prevailed in the end to get through to the semis. South Africa finish at the top of Group 2.

Keshav Maharaj has been dismissed now and Chase is single-handedly keeping South Africa in the game.

West Indies continue to believe as Roston Chase is making the difference with the ball after a half-century with the bat. After Miller, Chase has dismissed Tristan Stubbs, SA are six down now.

Roston Chase comes into the attack to help the Windies see the back of David Miller. South Africa are 93/5 after 11.4 overs.

Andre Russell concedes just three runs in the 11th over to keep things tight.

South Africa are 89/4 after 10 overs and need 34 off the last seven overs.

Tristan Stubbs and David Miller need to stitch a solid partnership to take South Africa over the line.

Alzarri Joseph bowls a short delivery to Heinrich Klaasen and Nicholas Pooran pouches a sensational catch to dismiss the South African.

Heinrich Klaasen takes Gudakesh Motie for 20 runs in the seventh over. South Africa need 53 runs off the last ten overs.

In comes Klaasen to replace Aiden Markram in the middle.

Aiden Markram perishes to Alzarri Joseph. South Africa are 50/3 after six overs.

South Africa will have to make 108 more runs in 90 deliveries with the match reduced to 17 overs. The match is set to restart at 9:15am IST with SA's target being 123.

South Africa's DLS adjusted targets:

15 overs - 113
16 overs - 118
17 overs - 123
18 overs - 127
19 overs - 132

After 8:51 AM (11:21 pm local time), the overs will start getting lost and 12:38 pm local (10:08 AM) is the latest for the match to start.

The rain has stopped and the covers have been removed but since the shower was heavy, a puddle has formed and the umpires are not rushing. The drainage in Antigua is fantastic and the teams should be getting ready.

There was lightning in the distance in the last couple of overs during the West Indies' innings and it has come down heavily after the two overs of South Africa's innings just when it seemed that the West Indies were coming back into the game.

Quinton de Kock after pounding the USA and England in back-to-back games, has gotten out after a few good shots in the first over against Akeal Hosein. Russell who was disappointed after getting run out, has dismissed both the South African openers.

Andre Russell has gotten his side the first breakthrough with Reeza Hendricks getting a faint edge down the leg through to the keeper. The umpire didn't give it before the hosts reviewed it and got the decision in their favour.

South Africa have restricted the West Indies to a score of 135 despite the fielding mishaps as apart from Roston Chase, no other West Indies batter got going. A place in the semi-finals on the line, should be a cracker!

Akeal Hosein after playing a few dot balls and running Russell out, has handed a simple catch back to Kagiso Rabada. West Indies eight down.

Andre Russell hit a couple of sixes in the 17th over bowled by Anrich Nortje but Akeal Hosein played a couple of dots. Hosein was on strike on the first ball of the next over and Russell wanted to get back on, however, a rocket throw from Nortje caught Russell short and South Africa got a big breakthrough.

Tabraiz Shamsi is on fire. He has now sent back both the set batters, Mayers earlier and now Roston Chase. Chase wanted to take on Shamsi but couldn't time it well and hit it straight to the long-on fielder.

Tabraiz Shamsi has struck again as Sherfane Rutherford has edged straight to the first slip. West Indies are five down and South Africa are clawing back.

A left-arm orthodox bowler's dream. Pitching it on middle and off and getting it to turn away just enough to get the batter squared and then stumped by Quinton de Kock, it was a beauty from Keshav Maharaj and Rovman Powell had no idea as to what really happened.

The 81-run partnership for the West Indies has finally been broken by Tabraiz Shamsi as the plan to bowl wide to Kyle Mayers worked. Mayers got a boundary on a wide delivery and then Shamsi got his man on the second attempt.

After losing two early wickets, Roston Chase and Kyle Mayers have stitched a 50-run stand although they have rode a bit of their luck with dropped catches for South Africa.

West Indies duo of Kyle Mayers and Roston Chase has come back strongly to end the powerplay on a high. South Africa, on the other hand, will be ruing those missed chances.

The wides didn't help early in the innings and the dropped catches added to South Africa's woes after a good start with the ball. West Indies could have been 18/3 if Anrich Nortje had taken his catch but Roston Chase was left of and similarly was Mayers on the bowling of Aiden Markram.

West Indies have lost two big wickets early in the innings as Nicholas Pooran departs now. Pooran hit straight to the long-off fielder as captain Aiden Markram gets his decision of bowling himself and the field, both right.

Marco Jansen after a couple of wides got Shai Hope to play in the air with a short of a length delivery outside the off-stump and Tristan Stubbs close-in took a simple catch. South Africa have an early wicket.

A virtual knockout and everything on stake! Kyle Mayers and Shai Hope come out to open for the West Indies and will be hoping for a good start for the hosts.

Playing XI: Kyle Mayers, Shai Hope, Nicholas Pooran(w), Roston Chase, Rovman Powell(c), Sherfane Rutherford, Andre Russell, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Gudakesh Motie, Obed McCoy

Playing XI: Reeza Hendricks, Quinton de Kock(w), Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi

South Africa skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and opted to field saying that he couldn't see the wicket getting worse in the second innings. Markram said that he hoped that wicket will stay good for batting since it was an evening game. West Indies captain Rovman Powell also wanted to bowl.

67m and 61m square boundaries and 74 metres down the ground. There will be consistent bounce and with this being an evening game, the ball is expected to skid through and come nicely onto the bat in both the innings. 

It was a bad day at the office for the West Indies in their Super 8 opener against England but they came back rather strongly in their next match as the hosts flexed their muscles against the fellow co-hosts USA. A superior net run rate has kept them on course, but they need a win. So yeah, it is a knockout, we can remove the word virtual. But if it rains, South Africa might be the one who get to utilise the benefits, probably the first one.

South Africa and luck don't go hand-in-hand in ICC events. Net run rate and rain haven't helped South Africa's cause in several crunch games in World Cups come and gone before and one of those two reasons might come back to bite the Proteas hard this time around as well. Despite winning both their Super 8 encounters so far, South Africa could miss out on a spot in the semis on NRR, if they lose to the West Indies.

The stakes couldn't get much higher than this - the hosts West Indies up against South Africa in a virtual knockout on a Sunday evening at the Sir Vivian Richards National Cricket Stadium in Antigua. It's early morning in India, but don't want to miss this, especially after what happened on Sunday morning. Welcome to our live coverage of WI vs SA, Super 8 clash in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024.