Media Coverage in South Africa: Reactions to T20 World Cup Defeat

 

The news of South Africa's defeat to India in the T-20 world cup final is being discussed a lot by South African media. In this final match, India won the toss and decided to bat first. And India scored 176 and gave South Africa a target of 177 runs. India won by 7 runs due to Jasprit Bumrah's impressive bowling and Indian fielding. There was a time when it seemed to everyone that South Africa would easily lose to India. Then the game changed completely in the last four overs. South Africa's News website "Times Live" published the statement of South Africa's captain Aiden Markram. He seems to have given a distressed and tense expression. "This is not the first match in cricket when 30 runs were needed in 30 balls and we lost the match even then," he said. India bowled and fielded well. India has performed better than us many times. India's bowlers bowled well in the last five overs. With that, their strategy weighed heavily on us." 

He said that he is very disappointed and saddened by the defeat of the team. Along with him, Aiden Markram said, "We are disappointed after losing the match. It will take time for us to understand this. Our performance was very good. Whatever happened in the end is very sad. "I am very proud of all my players, they thought this was a goal they could comfortably achieve," he said. I am very happy with the performance of all our players. It is very difficult to be defeated like this. I have always had hope and pride in our players and will continue to do so. We have seen that the game is not over until the end. In the end, the game changed very quickly. We know we could have won this game." News website "The South African" gave some main reasons for South Africa's defeat. He said that Heinrich Klaasen's wicket was the main reason for South Africa's defeat in the world cup.

 When Klaasen and David Miller were at the crease, South Africa's victory seemed certain. South Africa needed 30 runs from 30 balls and South Africa had six wickets to spare. At that time, Indian captain Rohit Sharma bowled the 16th over to Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya and he took the wicket of Klaasen in the first ball of that over. With that, there are many questions and doubts about South Africa's defeat. Is it that we have defeated South Africa for India's experience? Is it Klaasen's fault in losing this match? That team came so close to victory but lost. "We did a lot to win," said former South African player Geoffrey Toyana. There is an emotion with every game. Much has been said about Suryakumar's catch at the boundary off David Miller, some even saying that the boundary was shaken. But it can't be a reason to lose the match." He said that Virat Kohli was not in good form. However, he played very well. It seems that the balling was not so strong.