No de Kock, no problem as SA thrash Windies

SA’s Aiden Markram en route his 51-run knock v WI. Pic/AP, PTI

Aiden Markram struck a whirlwind unbeaten fifty as South Africa produced an all-round effort to bounce back strongly from their opening defeat and beat West Indies by eight wickets to secure their first win in the Super 12 stage of the ICC T20 World Cup here on Tuesday.

Both South Africa and West Indies started their Super 12 campaign on a losing note. While the Proteas were handed a five-wicket defeat by Australia, West Indies sank to six-wicket loss against England.

South Africa will next play Sri Lanka in their third Group 1 match on October 30, while West Indies will take on Bangladesh a day earlier.

South Africa first weathered Evin Lewis' (56) initial onslaught to restrict West Indies to 143 for eight and then rode on solid batting displays from Markram (51 not out off 26), Rassie van der Dussen (43 not out off 51) and Reeza Hendricks (39) to comfortably chase down the target with 10 balls to spare.

Contrary to the end result, South Africa did not have the best of starts to their chase, losing skipper Temba Bavuma to a run out. But Hendricks, who replaced De Kock dropped for not taking knee against racism, and van der Dussen then stabilised the innings with a 57-run second-wicket stand. After Hendricks' dismissal, van der Dussen and Markram then carried SA forward.

Brief scores
West Indies 143-8 (E Lewis 56, K Pollard 26; D Pretorius 3-17, K Maharaj 2-24) lost to South Africa 144-2 in 18.2 overs (A Markram 51', Van Der Dussen 43') by 8 wickets

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