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but it wasn t a straight forward semifinal. they were up against south africa who initially struggled, losing four early wickets, before recovering to push australia right to the end. however the five time champions used all their experience to battle through and take a nervy three wicket win, asjoe wilson reports. what s in those south african expressions? pride, of course, but nerves. well. first over of the match, their captain temba bavuma out south africa, chose to bat first they like to bat first. quinton de kock. that s only going for pat cummins. australia caught everything. the kolkata conditions suited their bowlers. south africa for a while could barely score. when rassie van der dussen fell, it was 2a for four. heinrich klaasen resisted until this dismissed by the part time spin of travis head. through it all, david miller kept strong, kept swinging. his 101 gave his team something. a total of 212 to defend. south africa s opportunity, well, they dropped tra ....
pat cummins side made a flying start with travis head hitting a quickfire 62. australia edged closer to the target, but lost their seventh wicket with 20 runs still needed cummins and mitchell starc kept their cool to complete a hard fought victory with 16 balls to spare. i think there was enough in the wicket. it looked like every time they went to play a shot we had a wicket. yeah, we have both together for a long time now, we know each other s games. hopefully we can do that on sunday as well. there is a little bit of the wicket which we probably haven t had in the previous games, but it is nice to get the previous games, but it is nice to get to bowling. novak djokovic has boosted his chances of making the last four of the season ending atp finals in turin after he recovered from a second set slump to beat hubert hurkacz. all three of djokovic s group stage matches have gone to three sets he took the first against his polish opponent on a tie break, despite los ....
k pop band bts isjust one of the nominees at tonight s virtual grammy awards. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m samantha simmonds. security forces in myanmar have killed at least 21 people in yangon in one of the deadliest days since huge demonstrations began against the military coup last month. a police officer is also reported to have died as clashes between the military and anti coup protesters continue for a sixth week. martial law has been declared in two areas of yangon. and, after two china owned factories were attacked, beijing has asked the authorities to protect its businesses. bbc burmese s nyein chan nyen is in yangon. deadly crackdowns on previous days cannot stop these people taking to the streets again here in myanmar. the demonstrations continue in the biggest cities of yangon, mandalay and as well in the country and again they are met with force by the military regime. there are reports of crackdowns in a number of ....