Points table World Cup 2022

South Africa's Aiden Markram and David Miller guided their team to a morale-boosting five-wicket victory over India after pacers Lungi Ngidi and Wayne ...

Meanwhile, the other two Asian nations Bangladesh and Pakistan won their respective group-stage matches on Sunday and kept their hopes alive to qualify for the next round. The Proteas seldom missed a ball and Kagiso Rabada, who went wicketless, took two brilliant catches to dismiss Kohli and Pandya, which pushed India on the back foot. Markram and Miller showed patience and mental strength to withstand the hostile bowling on a wicket that made batting difficult.

India also suffered some lapses on the field, giving Markram a huge slice of luck at 35 when a juggling Virat Kohli dropped a simple catch at deep ...

"I have seen what happened at the last with the spinners, so I wanted to go the other way. The last two games, we were pretty good in the field. "But we were not good enough on the field. So I wanted to finish with Ashwin before the last over. We fell a little short with the bat. "We expected the pitch to have something in it, with the weather around. When you see that score (40/3 in 10), you'll always think you're in the game. I thought we fought well till the end but South Africa played well in the end," said Rohit in the post-match presentation ceremony. We were just not good enough. In the post match press conference, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was asked about DK's injury and he said, "He had some issues with his back and I didn’t meet him after the match. With this defeat, Indi lost the number one spot in the points table as South Africa overtake. Earlier, India captain Rohit Sharma admitted that his team fell a little short with the bat.