Australia and South Africa met for the 10th Match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 at the Ekana Cricket stadium in Lucknow on 12 October. The South African opening batsman Quinton de Kock smashed the century against Australia to lead the team towards victory by 134 runs.
Australia won the toss and chose to bowl first and the South Africa cricket team scored 311 runs after 7 wickets.
Quinton de Kock and team’s T20I captain Aiden Markram scored 109 and 56 runs off 106 and 44 deliveries. Quinton de Kock smashed 8 fours and 5 sixes to become the Player of the match.
Australia failed to chase the target and lost quick wickets to ultimately lose their second match of the tournament. Marnus Lambuchagne became the highest scorer for the team and scored 46 runs off 74 balls. Currently Australia stands on the ninth position of the points table which is the one of the most poor performance by the team in the tournament.
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Pat Cummins on Australia’s poor performance against South Africa
“I thought Quinton (de Kock) batted really well, couldn’t get a breakthrough. From where they were, we were quite happy with 310, thought it was chaseable. Looked like hard work out there tonight, their bowlers bowled really well, think it nipped around a bit more under lights. (On if it would’ve been easier to bat first) Really hard to say, if we want to be challenging in this tournament we need to find ways of performing regardless of batting first or second. Don’t think much needs to be said tonight, everyone’s hurting, we’ll try and take a couple of days off and then make amends to come back stronger in the next one. There’s a few things we need to tidy up”, said Pat Cummins in the post match ceremony.
