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South Africa edged the West Indies by three wickets in a rain-affected Super Eights match on Sunday to reach the T20 World Cup semi-finals and eliminate the hosts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Chasing a revised 123 off 17 overs, South Africa stuttered to 110-7 as Roston Chase took three wickets, but they reached their target when Marco Jansen hit the first ball of the final over for six.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Man of the match Tabraiz Shamsi took 3-27 after South Africa won the toss and restricted the West Indies to 135-8 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

All-rounder Chase top scored with 52, featuring in an 81-run third-wicket partnership with Kyle Mayers (35 off 34 balls) before giving the West Indies hope by taking 3-12 with his off-spin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Jansen's unbeaten 21 saw the Proteas to victory at 124-7 when he smashed the final six off Obed McCoy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"The last time I played here I went for 50 runs and there was a lot of chatter going around," said Shamsi.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"I was happy to come back and perform my role, but credit as well to the guys who bowled before me because they set it up beautifully."<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Brought in for seamer Ottneil Baartman, the left-arm wrist-spinner got excellent support from fellow slow bowlers Keshav Maharaj (1-24) and captain Aiden Markram (1-28).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Chase was dropped on 11 by Anrich Nortje and made the most of his luck, clearing the ropes twice and hitting three fours.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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His partnership with Mayers helped rescue the hosts after they fell to 5-2 in the second over.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Once Shamsi removed Mayers to a sliced catch at deep cover, a steady stream of wickets enabled South Africa to restrict the West Indies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

With the score on 117-6, Nortje made amends for his earlier error with a direct hit to run out the dangerous Andre Russell who had hit two sixes in his 15 off nine balls.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"This is one batting performance we will try our best to forget," said West Indies captain Rovman Powell.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"It was a commendable bowling effort by us. We said at the halfway mark that we were going to give it our all and the guys really gave everything to defend that total."<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Winning captain Markram admitted to nerves during the tense chase.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"There's a lot of relief at making the semi-finals but we're not going to be brainwashed by that because we would have liked to be a lot more convincing,"  he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"Maybe we tried to kill off the game too early, but that's been the story of the competition so far.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"We get ourselves into tricky positions and then have to battle to get over the line."<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Also Read: <\/b> T20WC 2024 Schedule & Squads<\/a><\/p>

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