After defeating Afghanistan by 9 wickets, South Africa entered the World Cup final for the first time

South Africa's World Cup journey ended in the semi-finals 7 times. This time, South Africa has the opportunity to win the title by defeating one of India or England. The last time South Africa lost to Australia by 3 wickets was in the semi-final of the ODI World Cup in Kolkata last year. South Africa has won only one title in international cricket so far and that is the 1998 ICC Trophy.

Thursday in Trinidad The target of 57 runs given by Afghanistan at the Brian Lara Cricket Ground was completed by South Africa losing 1 wicket in 8.5 overs. Reza Hendricks scored 29 runs for South Africa. Likewise, Aiden Markram scored 23 runs. Quint de Kock was out for 5 runs. Fazal Haq Farooqui took 1 wicket for Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, who won the toss and batted first, did not perform well and the entire team was bowled out by scoring only 56 runs. The entire team lasted only 11.5 overs. Afghanistan had already lost five wickets after scoring 23 runs in the power play and continued to lose wickets at regular intervals. Azmutullah Omarzai's 10 runs were the highest for Afghanistan. Other batters could not score runs in double figures . After losing the first wicket for 4 runs, Afghanistan's batting reached 10/56 through 2/16, 3/20, 4/20, 5/23, 6/28, 7/50, 8/50, 9/50.

All the bowlers bowled sharp for South Africa . Among them, Marco Johnson took three wickets for 16 runs. Similarly, Tabrez Shamsi also scored three wickets by giving only 6 runs. Similarly, Kagiso Rabada and Enrique Nortze took two wickets each.

The second semi-final of the tournament will be held on Thursday and defending champion England will face India.

South Africa's journey to the finals was like this

Although South Africa won comfortably against Afghanistan in the semi-finals, South Africa could not perform admirably in the group stage of the ongoing World Cup. In the first match, he lost to Sri Lanka by 6 wickets with 22 balls to spare. Sri Lanka's target of 78 runs was completed by South Africa in 16.2 overs.

Similarly, in the second match of the group stage, South Africa defeated the Netherlands by 4 wickets. The target of 104 runs given by the Netherlands was completed by South Africa in 18.5 overs. South Africa won by 4 runs against Bangladesh. Although South Africa set a target of 114 runs, Bangladesh lost 7 wickets in 20 overs and managed to score only 109 runs.

South Africa's match against Nepal in the group stage was very interesting and competitive. Nepal almost reached the position of making history by winning over South Africa . Nepal managed to cover South Africa in 115 runs in 20 overs. While chasing the target, Nepal missed by only 1 run. In the Super-8, South Africa defeated England by 7 runs and West Indies by 3 wickets.