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00:30It's the big one. India champions up against the South African champions.
00:34Who is going to get to the semi-finals?
00:36Naman Ojha is back in to the eight.
00:38Gurkha Ritman is out.
00:40Ravi Uttapa, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Patanjali, good touch.
00:45Pawan Negi, 31 years young.
00:47Arbhijan Kulkarni, Vinay Kumar, Rahul Shukla.
00:51That's a strong-looking India side.
00:53And Dominic, oh, you like this South African XI.
00:57Certainly do, especially the two new incoming players.
01:01Hervé and Sneijder, what a performance that they put in yesterday
01:06to give South Africa a little chance.
01:08Jacques Callis has not seen a lot of Jacques Callis or Richard Levy with the bat.
01:12And they'll have to rely on their bowlers,
01:14because they've got a bit of tap, the likes of Vernon Philander and Charles Langeveld.
01:18And Ryan McClaren, gone, remember?
01:21He'd gone with the hamstring, thought that was it, he's back in.
01:25And Imran Tahir, can he bowl as well today as he did yesterday?
01:30Match 15, we're in the last game of qualification,
01:33and we still don't know who's third, fourth or fifth.
01:36It's the India champions who have won the toss.
01:40Yuvraj Singh, elected to field, no surprise there really.
01:48Time to rock and roll.
01:51Kulkarni up against Ryan McClaren.
01:56One ball.
01:58Nip down the leg side, a little exercise for the umpire,
02:01and South Africa are up and running with the wide.
02:03One on.
02:06Played away and a miss fields.
02:08That is very poor from Pawan Negi, 31 years, young Pawan Negi.
02:13Let's roll through his hands.
02:17Oh, beautiful.
02:20Short and wide, and just pumped.
02:23When you've got an injury in your hamstring,
02:25you can't move that freely, you want a bit of whiff.
02:30In the air, enough on it, not quite out of the screws,
02:33but Sneyman, he saw one shape away, he said,
02:37sod that, I'm going to get down the pitch and pump it over mid-off.
02:43Oh, brilliant. Powerfully struck.
02:46One bounce into the pickets for Sneyman.
02:49Four more.
02:53Let's it come right under the eyeline and just
02:57sways back and chops it for four.
03:03Outside the line again.
03:05Might run away for four here as well.
03:07Outfield at Northampton is very, very fast.
03:10It will run away. Four leg buys.
03:15There you go.
03:17You've got a bit of wood in your hand.
03:19Just hit the ball for her.
03:21Ease my trip six.
03:23You got there in the end.
03:25It's really hard, because sometimes they're hitting your
03:27best ball, but on a pitch as good as this,
03:30in the power play, it's the best time to bat, by the way.
03:36Just smash it. Another misfield.
03:40Chipped.
03:45Chipped really efficiently.
03:47Brings up the 50.
03:49Excellent over. 16 from it.
03:51Four done. 53 without loss.
03:57Toe the bat.
03:59Straight up in the air.
04:01Easy catch to the Serena.
04:04Arguably one of India's best ever fielders,
04:07especially inside the ring.
04:09He's got Sadafri off to a start.
04:11He's got that hamstring problem.
04:1320 from 13.
04:15He's got to keep going. Absolutely, he's got to keep going.
04:17It is a good catch by Reiner.
04:19Clarence on for 20.
04:21Sadafri Champion's 53 for one.
04:29Talk about generating power.
04:31And from where?
04:34This was not a full length delivery.
04:37It was back of the length of delivery.
04:40And look how he hit that one.
04:42It all came from the hip.
04:44The energy going through.
04:47Such a powerful hitter.
04:52And still got six.
04:53And this time, the punch off the back foot.
04:59Play.
05:00Playing ball.
05:02Yusuf Pathan being brought into the act.
05:05The act and breaks that partnership.
05:07That dangerous partnership for South Africa champions.
05:11The centurion yesterday.
05:13Irving has to go back.
05:15You wanted him to bowl on the edge of that shadow.
05:18And he was almost there.
05:20Almost there.
05:22Getting a little under edge, inside edge,
05:25onto the middle stump.
05:26And they were searching for wicket.
05:28Irving on for 11.83 for two now.
05:31We get all the time in the world.
05:34And pick the gap between deep mid wicket and long on.
05:40Carved away.
05:41Backward of point.
05:46Downwind and big enough.
05:50Six more for Schneemann.
05:54Just flogs it away.
05:55Leg side.
05:56Leg side.
06:01Downwind and...
06:04Just enough.
06:05Just enough with the breeze.
06:07He needed that breeze.
06:08I mentioned he likes to go leg side.
06:10He decides to go to his least favourite offside.
06:13And he needed that wind duly.
06:15Otherwise, Shukla should have hauled it in.
06:21It's been sliced away over point.
06:25Pick up four more.
06:2714 from the over.
06:2812 gone.
06:291.28 for two.
06:33Four more.
06:34Short, wide, put away.
06:38And again.
06:39Short, wide.
06:41Got exactly what it deserved.
06:46Downwind again.
06:47And plenty of it.
06:49Richard Levy with another ease my trip six.
06:54Richard Levy deposited plenty of sixes into this region
06:59during his illustrious North Hans career.
07:03Weary, it's his last over here.
07:05Oh, no.
07:06Might have one.
07:07Might have one.
07:08Yusuf Pathan, I think that is down there, comes in.
07:11Or is it Shukla?
07:12Two dots previous.
07:14Pressure was building.
07:15He fired two in and then took pace off that ball.
07:20Dangle the carrot.
07:22Jacques Schneemann.
07:24He gobbled it all up.
07:25But he could only find Shukla in the deep.
07:28Simple catch.
07:29Excellent innings.
07:30Back to back half centuries for Jacques Schneemann.
07:36Oh, it's a little drag down.
07:37He just absolutely clubbed it.
07:40A long way.
07:42This is a very loose loosener.
07:45And Richard Levy pumps it.
07:50Goes again.
07:52Very good from Levy.
07:54Drags it left side from well outside off.
07:57Stomped with that bottom hand.
08:01Two balls, two sixes.
08:09In the gap.
08:10And that will be a half century for Richard Levy
08:12of just 22 balls.
08:15Turning it on today.
08:16I mentioned he had a quiet tournament.
08:19First two games, he got one and ducked
08:21and dragged both on off seamers.
08:27Put him down in middle order.
08:29And he's loving life there because he could just come in
08:32and smash it left side from ball one.
08:37And after a quiet over, this one will go for 26
08:41with that boundary to finish it.
08:43Double Kulkarni and takes it.
08:47Harbhajan Singh brought into the attack
08:50just to get that wicket of Richard Levy
08:52who's looking dangerous.
08:5360 of 25.
08:55Big wicket for the India champions.
08:57That's a massive, massive blow.
08:59For India.
09:00For a South African.
09:02A huge wicket for Richard Levy.
09:05And a big wicket for Harbhajan Singh.
09:08And a big wicket for Richard Levy.
09:11For South Africa.
09:12And a huge wicket for India.
09:15Out for 60 of 25.
09:17174 for four, South Africa.
09:24Double Kulkarni and an action replay.
09:27It was a dual side.
09:28Just held up there.
09:30Slow through the air.
09:32Harbhajan Singh should have bowled
09:34at least two or three overs earlier.
09:37And because of the right-left combination
09:39and because of that matchup,
09:40he's not getting a ball.
09:41And suddenly he gets an over
09:43and picks up two very crucial wickets.
09:46Exactly what the doctor ordered.
09:49Out for zero.
09:50South Africa champions, 174 for five.
09:56And that's a wonderful shot.
10:00Just hands to the ball.
10:01Not much feet movement.
10:06Cheeky.
10:07Cheeky.
10:09Just out-thinking the bowler, Villas.
10:12And he's been in good touch.
10:17Magician.
10:18I only have one word for this man.
10:22The very subtle pause in that action.
10:25The Dusra coming into action.
10:27Naman Ojha doing a good job.
10:29Dan Villas goes out for seven.
10:33189 for six.
10:35Oh, you're setting it up.
10:37Setting it up.
10:38Jacques Callis found the gap.
10:39Slow but also found the gap by Jacques Callis.
10:45Lexter Bjorka works for Dhawal Kulkarni.
10:48Sees the back of Neal McKenzie.
10:51Too far down the offside
10:53and very smartly bowled by Dhawal Kulkarni.
10:56Seventh wicket for South Africa champion
10:59Neal McKenzie out for zero.
11:01199 percent.
11:05That sound crunchy
11:07but not sure it's going to go all the way.
11:09We'll have to wait and see.
11:10It does go all the way.
11:11Another biggie from Finland.
11:15Slow ball again by Dhawal Kulkarni.
11:19Oh, just got underneath that.
11:29And round Shukla by Lange.
11:32Oh, it's a good catch.
11:34It's the slow deliveries that are working
11:36for the India champions at the moment as well
11:38on that sort of surface.
11:39Rahul Shukla.
11:41But Vinay Kumar has been given a job
11:44and he's done pretty well in the first couple of deliveries.
11:47He had to make a lot of ground, Rahul Shukla.
11:50Jacques Callis will have to walk back to the dugout.
11:54I think India have done really, really well.
11:56209, 210, they would think they have a good chance.
12:02And don't try and do anything silly.
12:05Get a single, 210.
12:08That's a great comeback from India champions.
12:12South Africa a bit disappointed.
12:14They should have got at least 225 on the surface
12:17but a lot of credit goes to this man on our screen.
12:20Harbhajan Singh for a spell of four overs.
12:2325 for four.
12:27And we talk about South Africa.
12:29I think it's been a good start.
12:31A lovely opening partnership between McLaren and Snyman.
12:34And then Uri just getting out a bit sooner
12:37than he would have liked.
12:38Levy played a wonderful knock.
12:39An excellent knock for his team.
12:4160 of 25 had got his team to a very good total of 210.
12:50A lot to talk about the bowling.
12:52A bit expensive, all the fast bowlers
12:54but the spinners managed to pull this game back.
12:57Especially Harbhajan Singh and Pawar Negi,
12:59the way they bowled.
13:00Yusuf Pathan took a very important wicket as well.
13:03To win this game, the India champions need 211
13:06at 10.55 runs and over.
13:16Just chipped to mid-on.
13:18One bounce.
13:23Way over backward point.
13:25Bounce away for four.
13:26Not perfectly timed but good enough for a boundary.
13:33Very clever.
13:34That is a lovely shot from Robin Utapa.
13:43With width on offer.
13:46Comfortably timed through the offside.
13:51At the moment, he's been dealt with.
13:54Back-to-back boundaries.
13:58Oh my goodness.
14:02Lovely timing.
14:03One bounce, four.
14:05Watch this, he's coming forward at you
14:07and then pulls your lens.
14:09Not a lot you can do.
14:14Bowled!
14:15Slower ball.
14:16He wants to give him a send-off.
14:18He's just staring at him.
14:20It's a big wicket for South Africa.
14:23Just a little slower ball.
14:25Wobbles out.
14:26Held it back.
14:27Utapa through the shot.
14:29He's come at him.
14:31Oh, he wanted to say something, Verne.
14:33He wanted to, desperate to say something.
14:36Hold it and check.
14:37Utapa gone for 23, 23 for one.
14:43Shot wide and put away.
14:50Situation.
14:51That's out.
14:52There's another one.
14:53I think that might have been another slow ball.
14:55It's working well for Vernon.
14:57He likes it.
14:59And all of a sudden, a bit of belief in the South African side.
15:02It's built up from that fantastic win yesterday against Pakistan.
15:08Indifferent shot, slower delivery.
15:11Simple catch from Sneyman.
15:14Oji goes for five.
15:15India champions, 32 for two.
15:18Chopped away.
15:19That's a great catch.
15:20I think that's a sensational grab.
15:23Jacques Sneyman once again diving forward.
15:26It was short.
15:27It was wide.
15:28Ambati Raidu said, I must hit it for four.
15:31Yeah, it's just one of those things where Ambati Raidu,
15:33the body weight was completely falling away
15:36and the ball was too far away.
15:38What a catch.
15:39Ambati Raidu goes for two, 37 for three.
15:48And shots like that will help you.
15:51Imran Singh starts off with the boundary.
15:55Get it.
15:56Must be out.
15:57He's out.
15:58Imran Tahir, run and celebrate.
16:01Oh, yes, the wizard.
16:03It stings, but it feels good at the same time.
16:08He gets something to celebrate, Imran Tahir,
16:11right through the tournament.
16:12He's been trying to pick up wickets there.
16:14He's in the slot as well.
16:15What a tentative, powerful push there by Imran Singh.
16:19This goes to show he hasn't been in the best of form
16:22in the tournament.
16:23Imran Singh out for five, 42 for four.
16:29Suresh Raina gets plenty of it.
16:32Goes down the ground for a very much needed
16:36ease my trip, six.
16:39You can just sense that the ball was boiling
16:42for the India champions.
16:43Comes dancing down the track.
16:45Finds the middle of the bat.
16:46And with that six, Suresh Raina,
16:49that confidence will also grow.
16:56That was in the slot.
16:57That is also going to give some confidence
16:59to Yusuf Pathan.
17:04Free-flowing arms.
17:08That's beautifully played.
17:09I think that was the chat during the drink break
17:13that we have to take a bit of risk.
17:18Now then, no timing.
17:21Itini Jr.
17:25Wonderful.
17:27That is wonderful to see.
17:29That was nothing more than a chip.
17:34The ball was a little bit far away from him.
17:37He had to really reach for it and couldn't really do much.
17:40Although it was with the wind,
17:42but a little chip straight to a youngster.
17:47Short, pumped.
17:49No, he won't cut that off.
17:50He will not get that.
17:51I don't care how young, how fit, or how fast you are.
17:55You're not getting that Tando Intini.
18:00Oh, that's a bad ball.
18:01It's really poor from Rory Kleinfeld.
18:03It was short and it was down leg side.
18:06And Irfan Pathan said, we need a boundary.
18:12Pulled away.
18:13In the gap.
18:14Powerfully hit.
18:15Very good.
18:19Yes!
18:20You'll get it!
18:21Chance.
18:22Put down.
18:23No.
18:26Catch it.
18:28Finds the gap.
18:29Finds the gap.
18:30Add extra cover for four.
18:32Welcome boundary.
18:37Come on.
18:41Oh, it's straight down the ground.
18:44Straight down the ground for four.
18:46Lovely strike.
18:50And again, six more.
18:52Lovely strike from Irfan Pathan.
18:56He's not turning the ball.
18:57He's going to drift it a little bit.
18:59And Irfan says, you know what?
19:01I've seen this offspin before.
19:03I could take him down.
19:04What a lovely hit.
19:07Straight up.
19:08Steyn might have his first.
19:09Has he?
19:10Be a great catch.
19:11Be a great catch.
19:12Can't get there.
19:14The skipper cannot get there.
19:15They're going to run out though.
19:16They're going to run out.
19:17Oh, confusion.
19:19Oh, they're yelling.
19:20They're arguing.
19:21Tell you what.
19:22There'll be no love over the dinner table tonight.
19:24Those two.
19:26Straight up in the air.
19:27Jacques Callas and Dane Villas were converging.
19:30In an ideal world, it's Dane Villas.
19:32And then there's a bit of, yes, no.
19:34Go back, brother.
19:36Composure from Steyn.
19:38And then the right attack is read by Irfan.
19:42Unbelievable scenes.
19:43I've never seen such emotion.
19:45On your way.
19:48Oh, gone for 35.
19:511-3-3 for a six.
19:53It's game on.
19:57All will be forgotten if Yusuf gets them over the line.
19:59And that'll help.
20:02Ease my trip.
20:03Six over mid-wicket.
20:06There's not much shot in the sheds there.
20:08I tell you that.
20:09Good hit, Yusuf.
20:11It takes a lot of clarity of mind.
20:17Oh, gets away with an edge.
20:19Down through third for four.
20:24Still no smiles.
20:28It's in the deep.
20:29It's not going to carry.
20:30It should just be the one.
20:31It'll bring him his 50.
20:33Not a bad result for South Africa though.
20:37It just gets tighter.
20:41Oh, a swing and a miss.
20:42He is going to run one and he misses.
20:44Oh, my goodness.
20:47He did take him on.
20:49The run out was on and Levy's missed.
20:55Oh, goes short and Yusuf helps himself to four.
20:59And that'll be enough.
21:01That will be enough for India.
21:03The Indian champions.
21:06They will qualify.
21:10156-46.
21:14Good enough to finish in fourth position.
21:19Means they will take on Australia,
21:22the form team of the tournament.
21:26But all forgiven.
21:28Robbie Yusuf was very good at the top 23.
21:3223 from 10.
21:34Suresh Raina a little bit pedestrian.
21:3621 from 24.
21:38It was down to the Pathan brothers.
21:40Yusuf and Irfan.
21:43To get the job done.
21:44Five for 77.
21:47Six for 133.
21:51Two for 17.
21:52Vernon Philander didn't come back.
21:54One for 18.
21:55Imran Tahir was superb.
21:57Langevold with a wicket.
21:59And Sneyman with a wicket as well.
22:03210 for 8.
22:05Sneyman 73.
22:07Richard Levy 64 for 25.
22:09Abhijan Singh was simply superb with the ball.
22:12India champions who won the toss.
22:14Only managed 156-46.
22:17They have lost by 54,
22:20but have managed to qualify for the semifinals.
22:23And that, first and foremost, was their job.