South Africa have improved their unassailable lead to 4 with one to play as they have beaten West Indies by 7 wickets in Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica.

West Indies played a very well paced and balanced innings with runs from Dale Richards (59), Shiv Chanderpaul (66) and the Bravo bothers (46 and 45), set up a big total of 303 for 6 in their 50 overs. Their demanding total was quickly taken away from them with a superlative innings from Hashim Amla (129) and was given good support by Jacques Kallis (51) and AB de Villiers (57)

Hashim Amla may have walked away with his second man-of-the-match award in as many matches but Darren Sammy's eleventh hour heroics stole the show in Antigua last night.

After an impressive team performance against New Zealand, South Africa were given a true lesson today as they were convincingly beaten by a resurgent England team by 39 runs inside 19 overs.

A strong batting performance by Albie Morkel and AB de Villiers lifted South Africa to a strong winning total of 170 for just 4 wickets in their allotted 20 overs, giving the proteas a 13 run victory, after New Zealand could only muster 157 for 7 in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Over the last few weeks of IPL, sport fans are being treated to another spectacle as the cricketing world heads into into the ICC World T20 in the West Indies.

The tournament kicks off next Friday, 30 April, with New Zealand taking on Sri Lanka which could prove to be a cracker!

The format starts off in four groups of 3 teams each.
Group A: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia

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