ICC World T20 2016, stats: South Africa vs West Indies: Windies beat SA to qualify for the semi-finals

West Indies beat South Africa by 3 wickets in their Group 1 match at Nagpur. With this loss, South Africa’s ambitions of qualifying for the semi-finals hangs by a thread as they depend on Sri Lanka to beat England at Delhi tomorrow. On the other hand, West Indies became the second team after New Zealand to qualify for the semis.

Afer put into bat, South Africa were completely outplayed as they were restricted for just 122 runs. Quinton de Kock scored 47 for South Africa while Andre Russell, Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo took two wickets apiece.

In reply, West Indies were off to a disastrous start as they lost the wicket of Chris Gayle in the very first over. West Indies were in control of the match until Johnson Charles got out. After his wicket, there was a collapse in the West Indies batting order, but Marlon Samuels and Carlos Brathwaite managed take their team home. Marlon Samuels top scored for West Indies with a run a ball 44. Imran Tahir took 2 wickets for the Proteas.

Here are some of the stats from the match:

• This is West Indies’ first win over South Africa in World T20s.
• Marlon Samuels became the second West Indian to score 1000 T20I runs.
• Dwayne Bravo became the third West Indian to score 1000 T20I runs.
• Chris Gayle became the third player to score 1500 runs and take 15 wickets in T20Is. The other two are Mohammad Hafeez (1614 runs+46 wickets) and JP Duminy (1654 runs+17 wickets)
• AB de Villiers has scored just 98 runs off 88 balls (9 fours and 2 sixes) in 7 T20I innings against West Indies. In his last ODI innings alone, he scored 162 off 66 balls with 17 fours and 8 sixes.
• This edition of World T20 has seen more stumpings (23 stumpings so far) than any other editions. (2007- 11, 2009- 20, 2010- 13, 2012- 15, 2014- 21, 2016- 23).
• The last time West Indies beat South Africa in a World Cup encounter across all formats was in 2003. Chris Gayle is the only player surviving from that match.
• Prior to this match, South Africa have defended totals of less than 150 nine times in T20Is. Only Pakistan have done it more often (11 times).
• South Africa played 51 dot balls in this match. They also managed just one six in their entire innings.
• Chris Gayle has scored just 20 runs off 28 balls against South Africa in 4 T20I innings outside South Africa.
• Darren Sammy becomes the 10th captain to get out for a golden duck.