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Amla, du Plessis plunder Ireland

CANBERRA: South Africa put one foot in the World Cup quarter-finals by batting past the 400-run mark for the second successive match to hand Ireland a thumping defeat by 201 runs with five overs to spare at Manuka Oval.

Amla, du Plessis plunder Ireland

Hashim Amla is the fastest to reach 20th century (111 ODIs). Virat Kohli got to this mark in 141 One-day Internationals. AFP 



Canberra, March 3

South Africa put one foot in the World Cup quarter-finals by batting past the 400-run mark for the second successive match to hand Ireland a thumping defeat by 201 runs with five overs to spare at Manuka Oval.

Hashim Amla hit his highest one-day score with a majestic 159 and Faf du Plessis grabbed a century to drive the Proteas to 411 for four before Ireland, despite some stiff resistance from their middle and lower orders, were dismissed for 210.

The Irish were unbeaten in the tournament coming into this Pool B clash but were simply outclassed in all departments by the in-form South Africans, who crushed West Indies by 257 runs in Sydney on Friday.

That victory had been set up by AB de Villiers’ 162 in a total of 408 for five but on Tuesday it was opener Amla who led the way as South Africa fell just two runs short of the World Cup record innings tally.

The record would surely have fallen had Irish off-spinner Andy McBrine not removed Amla and de Villiers (24), the two top-ranked batsmen in the world, in three balls in the 42nd over.

Amla had been dropped on 10 and should have been run out on 104 but otherwise batted with his trademark calmness and at one stage it looked like he would match Chris Gayle’s double century on the same pitch last Tuesday. As measured as his captain de Villiers is explosive, Amla reached his 20th one-day century at a run-a-ball in a partnership of 247 with Du Plessis — a record second-wicket stand for South Africa. The 31-year-old’s 159 came off 128 balls and he had hit 16 fours and four sixes by the time he holed out to Ed Joyce in the deep, 36 overs after the former England batsman had dropped him at midwicket off Kevin O’Brien’s first delivery. Amla has scored his 20 One-day centuries in fewer innings than any other batsman. — Reuters

Scoreboard

SOUTH AFRICA

Amla c Joyce b McBrine 159

Kock c Wilson b Mooney 1

du Plessis b O’Brien 109

de Villiers c NJ O’Brien b McBrine 24

Miller not out 46

Rossouw not out 61

Extras (b 1, w 7, nb 3) 11

Total (4 wkts; 50 ovs) 411

Fall of wickets:  1-12 2-259 3-299 4-301 

Bowling

Mooney 7-2-52-1

Sorensen 6-0-76-0

O’Brien 7-0-95-1

Dockrell 10-0-56-0

Stirling 10-0-68-0

McBrine 10-0-63-2

IRELAND

Porterfield c du Plessis b Abbott 12

Stirling c de Kock b Steyn 9

Joyce c Amla b Steyn 0

O’Brien c Amla b Abbott 14

Balbirnie c Rossouw b Morkel 58

Wilson lbw b Abbott 0

O’Brien c Rossouw b Abbott 48

Mooney b de Villiers 8

Dockrell b Morkel 25

Sorensen c de Kock b Morkel 22

McBrine not out 2

Extras (lb 3, w 9) 12

Total (all out; 45 overs) 210 

Fall of wickets: 1-17 2-21 3-21 4-42 5-48 6-129 7-150 8-167 9-200 10-210 

Bowling 

Steyn 8-0-39-2

Abbott 8-0-21-4

Morkel 9-0-34-3

Tahir 10-1-50-0

Behardien 2-0-13-0

Rossouw 2-0-13-0

 

du Plessis 4-0-30-0

 

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