Bangladesh vs South Africa, 30th Match, Group 1 at Abu Dhabi, T20 World Cup, Nov 02 2021 - Match Result

5.15pm Match 2 isn't far away, and our commentary for that game - Pakistan vs Namibia - is up and running. Do hop over there as we continue our coverage of this tournament. That's all from this game, so on behalf of Monga and Raghav, goodbye!

Temba Bavuma: "It was a good day for us. Quite a lot in the wicket early on, and KG and Nortje were able to exploit it. It excites us. The conditions reminded us of playing at home. It's never easy when you have one guy bowling 150 and another guy in KG who's got all the skill in the world. We wanted to get the score in a good time, but the conditions were a bit tricky. It's a big game [against England], looking at the competition the way it is, they have had the better of us recently, and we would like to make amends."

Mahmudullah: "I think the wicket was pretty good to bowl on in the first half. We weren't good enough in the middle. That was a poor batting display, but having said that there was enough assistance in the pitch. Taskin has been bowling well in this tournament. We had the choice between Taskin and Fizzy, but we went with Taskin because he has been bowling well. It's frustrating, but we could have won two games. If we had won those games, it would have been a different story."

5.08pm S Rajesh from our stats team tells me South Africa will need to beat England by 81 runs (if they score 160) to top the group.

Kagiso Rabada is the Player of the Match. "That wicket favoured the seamers and I'm just glad that today was my day. Every time we have the opportunity to practice, we try and implement what could possibly work for us. We always train hard, and today it paid off. It's nice to see the ball swing, especially in T20 cricket, but it wasn't a surprise, having seen that happen in the IPL games here. There's a bit of bounce here, but it's a bit two-paced, some balls skid through, but it's probably the quickest wicket here [in the UAE]. [Anrich Nortje] has been in good form for a long time now, and I'm happy for him."

5.00pm Superb performance from South Africa. They've done pretty much exactly what they must have set out to do once they won the toss. And they probably wouldn't have hoped for a win this one-sided. Their net run rate is now up to 0.742, which is more than a run per over better than Australia's at the moment. The seamers set things up, with Kagiso Rabada the major hero, and the batting, after a bit of an early wobble, was controlled and clinical.

Stath: "Bangladesh losing with 33 balls to spare, a slight improvement on when they played England and lost with 35 balls left"

Mark: "This result leaves Australia hoping that South Africa beat England, but not by much and that they can win their last two matches by huge margins to get their Run Rate above South Africa's. Not an easy job! " -- I think Australia would prefer it if England beat South Africa, no?

Rawffe: "SAF's win today has officially/mathematically knocked-out BD and SL."

Over the wicket to Bavuma.

Here's David Miller. Just five runs to get now. Mahedi comes in from around the wicket, with a slip in place.

There was a slip in place before that ball. No slip now.

More adjustments to the bandages under Bavuma's right glove. A bit of excess tape gets snipped off.

Nick M: "It look like one of those "You never really feel in" kind of wickets, and the only sort of batting that had been rewarded is nurdling and some very careful aggression to bad balls. So I think the revised RSA batting approach is justified." -- On the flip side, they can afford to lose a couple more wickets in the effort to go a little harder.

Keeper comes up now.

A bit of a delay as Bavuma adjusts some taping under his gloves.

Dada: "Mahmadullah should probably give Soumya an over or two since the ball is still seaming." -- Well, here he is!

No real boundary-hitting intent in that over. You wonder why, given that they have a decent amount of batting to come.