NAM vs SA

It was third time lucky for South Africa who have defeated Namibia for the first time in T20Is after their previous two losses and now it is going to be South Africa vs Zimbabwe in the final on Sunday (Sep 6). Do join us again, for now this is Sourabh Agrawal taking your leave on behalf of Bidipto Datta and the team. Cheers!

Bjorn Fortuin (South Africa captain): Bit closer than we wanted to be honest. But a win is a win and we have learnt not to take anything granted in this game. Lots of things to work on before getting to the final game. (on his two openers) They batted beautifully, they summed up the conditions really quickly and we saw their natural talent coming through. We have seen that from Lhu (Pretrorius) before as well and Connor also played really well today. Very happy for them. (was there moments where he felt nervous?) Yeah, there were definitely moments. Credits to the bowlers though, I asked them to bowl hard overs. Moxi (Mokoena) came up beautifully at the end for the team, Kwena, Bosch, all the guys. We have got a final coming up but saying that coming into today's game as well we were not looking too far ahead. Knew today was going to be a massive challenge against a team who had a lot to play for and it is nice to get one over them

Gerhard Erasmus (Namibia captain): (where did you fall short?) Awesome game of cricket first of all, to give that to the public was amazing. It was a game of boundaries today, we might have got more than them but towards the end we could not get them. Perhaps after the powerplay, we could have slowed it down with the ball but we could not manage that. It was awesome from our openers to give us a start like that, just could not finish it off. We want to create a brand of cricket they (the crowd) can be proud of and come and watch us

Lhaun-dre Pretorius (Player of the Match, 101 runs off 53 deliveries): "Feel pretty good! We wanted a victory, and now, head to the final on Sunday with the winning momentum. I decided to spend a bit of time early on, as Connor (Esterhuizen) went hard, and then, picked up pace. The wicket was good to bat on early on, so, cashing in on it was important. Didn't speak with Heinrich (Klaasen) today, but, his inputs have helped!" 

5:59 PM local time (8:59 PM IST): MATCH SUMMARY

South Africa (228/4 in 20 overs) beat Namibia (217/3 in 20 overs) by 11 runs

Lhuan-dre Pretorius 101(53) | Nqobani Mokoena 2/43(4)
Jan Frylinck 72(36) | Jan Balt 2/31(4)

Namibia gave it their all but they have fallen short at the final hurdle here in Windhoek in front of their home crowd and it going to be South Africa vs Zimbabwe in the final of this tri-series after a day's gap

A total of 445 runs in 40 overs today, just 7 wickets fell on what was the best batting surface of the series and the crowd that had gathered were entertained by some massive hits. 27 sixes and 27 fours all in all, it was a feast for the batters

Jan Frylinck's 72 runs at a strike rate of 200 were the highlights of the Namibian innings. The left-hander punished every South African bowler that came his way and he along with Steenkamp put up a big 119-run opening stand which gave Namibia real hope before an excellent catch in the deep from sub fielder de Zorzi sent the former back

Steenkamp then put on 48 more with his captain but it was a strange innings from the Namibian skipper Erasmus who finished 30 not out off 26 balls in the end. Steenkamp got 61, he had to retire hurt after 16 overs. The equation kept getting steeper and steeper, Erasmus could not get going and the others just did not have enough as Mokoena and Maphaka bowled some brilliant death overs stuff to knock Namibia out of this tri-series

Hang around for the post-match presentations.

19.6 Nqobani Mokoena to Ruben Trumpelmann, OUT! On the fuller side of good length and slow outside off. Trumpelmann tried to go across again and hammer that wide of long-on. But it took a relatively thin outside edge to go to the right of the keeper. But, Esterhuizen did well to dive on time and take a nice catch to end the game! South Africa pick up their first win over Namibia.

19.6 Nqobani Mokoena to Ruben Trumpelmann, COME ON NQOBANI! WHAT'S THE POINT? WIDE BALL! Too far away outside off. Left alone easily on line to pick up the extra. 

19.5 Nqobani Mokoena to Gerhard Erasmus, full around off. Drilled off the cue-end of the bat, across to the mid-wicket region, for a single! 

19.4 Nqobani Mokoena to Ruben Trumpelmann, WELL, THREE RUNS IN THE END! Good length, slow and around off. Slapped down to the wide long-off region. The batters run hard to take two. The keeper misses his collection, the batters run for the third and then, the bowler fails to collect an easy one too! 

19.3 Nqobani Mokoena to Ruben Trumpelmann, full and well wide of off-stump. Trumpelmann moves across and swings hard, to get it down to deep cover, for a brace only! 

19.2 Nqobani Mokoena to Ruben Trumpelmann, quite full and around off-stump. Trumpelmann smacks that through extra cover, to settle for another couple of runs! 

19.2 Nqobani Mokoena to Ruben Trumpelmann, NEEDLESS WIDE! Full and well outside off, missing the tramline by some way. Left alone on line to pick up the extra. 

19.1 Nqobani Mokoena to Ruben Trumpelmann, OH! MISSES OUT! TWO RUNS ONLY. Full toss around off. A big shot attempted over wide long-on, but, it gets mistimed down to long-on for a brace. 

24 needed from the final over. Got to go horribly wrong for South Africa to lose this but it is still possible. Young Mokoena to bowl with Trumpelmann on strike