South Africa secure super over win

RCB have bought the all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer for Rs 7 crore in the IPL mini auction for the upcoming season. Last season, he played for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).after being bought for a massive Rs 23.75 Crore bid in the 2025 season.

Following India's historic triumph in the T20 World Cup 2026, skipper Suryakumar Yadav credited the famous catch of South African batsman David Miller in the 2024 T20 World Cup for changing his fortunes.

Comparing his team to David, the biblical underdog who defeated the giant Goliath, he highlighted that his team is often underestimated and not expected to perform well, but they consistently prove themselves, often surpassing expectations.

Either one of South Africa or New Zealand will get another shot at their maiden T20 World Cup title, when they look horns in front of a packed Eden Gardens crowd in Kolkata on Tuesday. Over the years, both the sides have treated fans to some absolute classics in the T20 World Cup. Here is a look at all their T20 World Cup clashes, all of them won by South Africa.

Australia, struggling with injuries leading upto the tournament, with pacers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood missing out due to injuries, and Tim David and Glenn Maxwell having injury scares leading upto the tournament, crashed out in the first round of the competition following humiliating losses to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka. While they defeated Ireland in their campaign opener and absolutely dismantled Oman in their final group stage match, the Aussies were far from their dominant selves. Once again questioned were raised over the team's T20I future and if they took the format seriously at all, having won only one T20WC back in 2021.

South Africa and New Zealand, two excellent white-ball sides who are yet to win a World Cup event, be it the 20-over or the 50-over, will get a chance to play India or England in the title clash for their first-ever ICC T20 World Cup crown. For the 2024 runners-up,, South Africa, Miller will be the key, with an exceptional record in ICC tournament knockout matches. Miller will be aiming to make up for being caught by Suryakumar Yadav at long-off during the 2024 T20WC final at Barbados by firing a couple more times to guide his side to the T20I crown.

The event will feature an elite roster of over 100 participants competing across an 18-hole course. Among the participants are Indian cricket legends Yuvraj Singh, G.R Vishwanath, Venkatesh Prasad, Harbhajan Singh, Ajay Jadeja, Parthiv Patel, Murali Kartik, S. Badrinath, Murali Vijay, Nikhil Chopra, together with international cricketers Eoin Morgan, Michael Vaughan and David Lloyd.

Rabada, 30, achieved this movement up the charts during his side's Super Eight T20 WC clash against West Indies, delivering a brilliant spell of 2/22 in four overs, which rocked the Caribbean's batting in the first half of the innings.

Miller turned back the clock with a fiery 63, while Stubbs provided the finishing touches with a quickfire 44*, taking South Africa to 187/7 against India at Ahmedabad, which proved to be a match-winning one for the 2024 T20 World Cup runners-up. India lost the match by 76 runs, experiencing their heaviest loss in the history of the T20 WC. During Proteas' batting, Miller and Stubbs got to share a 35-run stand for the fifth wicket.

India's 12-match win streak in T20 WCs and their record 17 match unbeaten run in ICC events since their loss to Australia in 2023 Cricket World Cup faced a jolting end when a sensational fifty from David Miller and fiery spells from Marco Jansen and Lungi Ngidi helped Proteas put on a clinical all-round performance, beating the defending champions by 76 runs, their biggest loss in T20 WC history. Now Men in Blue have to win their remaining two matches, and for a good part, they are left at the mercy of net-run-rate.