West Indies vs South Africa స్కోరు కార్డు, Match 18, ICC T20 World Cup 2021

South Africa have won three of their last four men’s T20Is against the West Indies – including a 25-run win when the last met on July 3rd, 2021 – and have won two of their three previous encounters at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

South Africa saw a seven-game winning run-in men’s T20Is come to an end last time out when they lost to Australia by five wickets to open their 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup campaign; the Proteas have now lost four of their last six games at the Men’s T20 World Cup (W2).

The West Indies have lost their last two men’s T20Is heading into this fixture; the last time they lost more in succession was a three-game stretch in November-December 2019.

The West Indies have lost all four of their previous men’s T20Is played in the United Arab Emirates; Zimbabwe (L7) are the only other Test-playing nation to have played multiple games in the country and are still winless.

South Africa scored just 29 runs during their batting power play in their first game of the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup against Australia, their lowest in a T20I since scoring just 24 power play runs against Pakistan on February 6th, 2019.

The West Indies have had a bowling dot ball rate of 40% or higher in two of their last three men’s T20Is – including 42% against England in their opening game of the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup; they had not finished a bowling innings with a dot ball rate of 40% or higher in any of their 13 previous attempts.

Aiden Markram (South Africa) opened his 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup campaign with a 40-run knock from 36 balls; he’s now been dismissed for fewer than 39 runs in just one of his last six T20I innings with an average of 45.2 in that period.

Chris Gayle (West Indies) is 67 runs shy of becoming the second player to score 1,000 runs at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup; he has reached that figure five times previously at the tournament including a personal best innings of 117 runs against South Africa in September 2007.

West Indies’ Andre Russell (34) and South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada (30) have bowled the most and second most short balls respectively of any players yet to take a wicket via that length in men’s T20Is since the beginning of 2020.

Evin Lewis (West Indies) is five boundary fours away from 100 in men’s T20Is; he would become the fourth player to log a century of fours for the West Indies and just the second to log 100 fours and 100 sixes (Chris Gayle).