Captain Scott Edwards led from the front as the Dutch turned around. After the fall of the fifth wicket in the 21st over, the wicketkeeper batsman who came to the wicket finished the innings unbeaten on 78 runs. His innings of 69 balls was decorated with 10 fours and 1 six. Rolf von der Merwe and Ariane Dutt gave him great support at the end.
Edwards added 64 runs with von der Merwe in the eighth wicket and took the team's run to 200 over. After returning to Marwa with 29 runs from 19 balls, Aryan Dutt stormed the wicket. The 20-year-old spinner scored 23 runs off 9 balls with three sixes. Captain Edwards also scored more runs than balls.
245 runs on the score card. But at the end of the innings, who dares to bet with the Dutch, who knows! Captain Temba Bavuma took South Africa's run to 36 in 7.5 overs with Quinton de Kock, who scored a century in the previous two matches.Proteas started to fall in the last ball of the eighth over. Off-spinner Colin Ackerman's delivery bounced off de Kock's gloves and took refuge in Edwards' wicketkeeping gloves. Proteas skipper Temba Bavuma bowls Rolf von der Merwe's left-arm spin after 7 balls. That made South Africa score 39/2. What a surprise, when Bavuma got out against the Netherlands in the T20 World Cup last year, South Africa's score was still 39/2!
Two batsmen like captain's partner Aiden Markram and Recy von der Dusen in the dugout before two more overs. Aryan Dutt was caught at backward point by Dusen who scored 4 runs while reverse sweeping Marwe. Pacer Paul Von Meekeren bowled Markram in the previous over.
The biggest partnership of the Protea innings was then made by David Miller with Heinrich Klaasen. In the 19th over, Logan von Beek broke the pair by making Klaassen caught by Vikramjit Singh. In the 24th over, when Miller, who was still the hope of South Africa, was caught on the boundary line and survived, it seemed that fielder Bas de Leedy had given up the match.
Killer Miller, who came back to life on 27 runs, however, could only add 15 more runs before being bowled by Von Beek. Yet his innings of 43 off 52 balls is the highest in a Protea innings. After Miller's dismissal in the last ball of 31 overs, the Proteas played only to try to bridge the gap.
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