South africa vs australia match rain: South Africa is called ‘Choks’ in cricket. Frequent knockout coming out in the stage is one of the old habits of the African team. In the Champions Trophy 2025, South Africa is currently at the top of Group B points table, but has not confirmed the place in the semi -finals. Now his match against Australia has been canceled and there are complete possibilities that South Africa may be out of the tournament. Actually South Africa, rain and ICC tournaments, this combination has never proved to be good. This has happened 3 times when South Africa had to be ruled out of an ICC tournament due to rain.
1992 World Cup semi -finals
In the 1992 World Cup, South Africa reached the semi -finals by winning five out of 8 matches of the league stage. He was to face England in the semi -finals. Africa laid the foundation of its victory by stopping England by 252 runs. When Africa needed 22 runs in 13 balls while chasing the target, the rain came. At the same time, when the match started again, everyone was shocked to see the big screen. Africa needed 21 runs to win one ball. There was a fierce dispute on this rule, but South Africa lost by 19 runs.
2003 World Cup
South Africa had a match with Sri Lanka before going to the semi -finals. This was a do or die fight for Africa. Sri Lanka scored 268 runs in this match. Chasing a target of 269 runs, Africa scored 229 runs at the loss of 6 wickets at one time. The team had to score 40 runs in 30 balls to win. Then the rain came and finally the match was declared canceled. Both teams were given 1–1 points, which was insufficient to bring South Africa to the semi-finals.
2022 T20 World Cup
South Africa had a match with Zimbabwe in the 2022 T20 World Cup. The rain intervened in the match. The number of overs in the match was reduced to 9 overs and Zimbabwe scored 79 runs while playing first. South Africa’s innings started only 2 overs, when the rain came. When the match started again, the team got a target of 64 runs in 7 overs. The rain came again and finally the match was declared canceled. Thus South Africa finished third in the group, which was not enough to take it to the semi -finals.
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