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A not so cryptic clue for the crossword access account India’s alliance bout adjoin South Africa at the Oval in London on Sunday: Five letters, begins with C and ends in E.
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The lazy, accessible acknowledgment is choke, but alike if they were afraid on the day, it was not absolutely what South Africa did. A added applicable description is curse. It seems that there is some array of spell that is acceptance bottomward this South African team. Aloof as anon as they are told that a bout is knockout in an International Candid Council event, a basic quarterfinal if you will, a aggregation of awfully accomplished individuals goes into aggregate meltdown.
On a clue area Sri Lanka chased bottomward 321 with able affluence adjoin this Indian bowling attack, bare Ravi Ashwin, South Africa’s batsmen begin a ambit of acutely artistic means to get themselves out, crumbling to 191 all out. Shekhar Dhawan afresh continued his feasting, cutting up 78 while Virat Kohli almost bankrupt a diaphoresis allowance himself to 76 as India won by eight wickets to set up a semifinal adjoin Bangladesh.
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When the day dawned ablaze and sunny, and India’s admirers arranged the Oval to the rafters — this aback there is a cogent South African citizenry in London — all signs acicular to a change of apparatus as Ashwin was brought into the mix in abode of Umesh Yadav. It was not until the 10th over that Ashwin got a bowl, with Hashim Amla and Quentin de Kock bedding in for the continued haul, at 33 for no loss. If the alpha was sedate, the plan actuality to abatement aback an on an earlier adaptation of One-Day International candid area wickets were conserved for the best part, it ability accept fabricated sense. But, in South Africa’s case, it seemed added like a aggregation actuality diffident, not absent to attending for too abundant and end up with too little.
Amla, he of the agreeable on-drives and comfortable tucks off the hip, was never decidedly troubled, a affably abrupt six off Hardik Pandya actuality a case in point.
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Moving beyond his stumps, Amla adapted a acceptable commitment into a scoring option, sending the brawl sailing over square-leg. But, alike he could not accept predicted that this would be the alone six of the innings. Ashwin, accepting austere revs on the ball, put paid to the avant-garde captains’ approach that off spinners are built-in to basin to left-hand batsmen, a bubbles commitment assault Amla’s cut to be airtight up by Mahendra Singh Dhoni abaft the stumps. Ravindra Jadeja afresh added tinkled on this belief, hasty accomplished de Kock’s ambit to bang the timber.
India’s bowlers had sown the seeds of agitation and the batsmen didn’t disappoint. AB de Villiers played one adorable awning drive, a attempt that you ability see on a mural depicting cricket’s best admirable strokes, but it accepted to be a apocryphal dawn. Trying to batter a distinct off Jadeja, Faf du Plessis set off, but it was de Villiers branch to the crisis end. The bandy from Pandya was on the money, and Dhoni’s easily were quicker alike than de Villiers’ superman dive.
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If de Villiers’ run out was the aftereffect of arete on the field, David Miller’s abandonment to the aforementioned approach of adjournment best summed up South Africa’s tragicomic innings. Du Plessis glided a brawl to third-man, started, stopped, started afresh and afresh was in a chase with Miller to achieve his crease. A dive from du Plessis larboard both batsmen at one end, and the bandy concluded up at the other. The bails came off and the third adjudicator was apprenticed into account to accelerate Miller on his way. If two men chanced aloft a bobcat in the bush, it is generally said, you don’t charge to out-run the baron of the jungle, aloof your adolescent man. In this case, both sprinted into the cat-and-mouse accessible jaws.
To say the blow of the innings was a shambles, would not be an understatement. South Africa absent their aftermost eight wickets for 51 runs. It was as admitting they searched every alcove and breach to appear up with methods of imploding. With the angle accomplishing little and the burden of the scoreboard non-existent, India backward blessed, abrogation South Africa, abnormally the captain, with abounding questions to answer. Whether they can appear up with a bigger one than that they are cursed, charcoal to be seen.
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