South Africa breaks the knock-out jinx against Sri Lanka

South Africa breaks the knock-out jinx with huge win against Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka cannot progress for semi final.

Wooo..! First quarter final: Sydney Cricket Ground,  South Africa beats Sri Lanka by 9 wickets and qualify for semi`s of Cricket World Cup 2015. Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews won the toss and elected to bat first but unluckily the batsman cannot play well and the whole team got out only the score of 133. Imran Tahir and JP Duminy play an important role to win the game. The player of the match Imran Tahir get 4 wickets in 8.2 overs. JP Duminy also take 3 wickets and also become the first player of South Africa to take a hat-trick in the world cup.

He also became the second spinner after Saqlain Mushtaq to pick up a hat-trick in the history of the World Cup. The bowlers bound the Lankan innings to a small total of 133 and hence South Africa breaks the knock-out jinx against Sri Lanka . The out of form batsman Quinton DE kock played an unbeatable inning of  78 from 57 deliveries including 12 boundaries and helps South Africa to breaks the knock-out jinx against Sri Lanka.

 Kumar Sangakkara can scored his last ODI score of 45 but in vain and south Africa qualify for semi final of the world cup. For further details about cricket matches you may also like to visit England is out From Cricket World Cup 2015.

South Africa breaks the knock-out jinx against Sri Lanka [howpk.com]

South Africa breaks the knock-out jinx and storms to semi final of the World Cup

Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews says that it was the worst performance that they had in this world cup. We have to score 250 to give our bowlers a chance but unfortunately they didn’t do that, he further said that the best thing would have been to get to the final but unfortunately that hasn’t happened. While the winning captain AB DE Villiers said that they were very motivated for this game the boys specially bowlers do their job perfectly. He said that they want to bat first but the bowlers well done and bounds Sri Lanka. He is very happy and De Kock is been going through a tough time, you go through patches in your career, the coaches kept backing him, for him to pull it off with a really special knock and a couple of catches.

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