ODI World Cup 2023: Klaasen’s class with the bat proving to be a menace for South Africa’s opponents

Heinrich Klaasen is likely one of the most fearsome batters in world cricket, not less than within the 50-over-a-side format, for the time being.

Klaasen has continued his elegant batting and silken contact within the Men’s ODI World Cup. His back-to-back knocks on the Wankhede Stadium, together with Tuesday’s 49-ball 93, have underlined his prowess within the format.

Having joined Quinton de Kock on the crease in the direction of the tip of the thirtieth over, Klaasen knew that neither would face an excessive amount of of spin nor was he at risk of working out steam on one more sizzling and humid day, as he did three days in the past.

Still, he made the many of the 9 balls he received from the spinners, tonking 20 runs. But as soon as Bangladesh employed an all-pace technique and the tempo trio misfired as a lot as its England counterparts, Klaases was as much as it. Before miscuing one within the final over, he had thumped 73 runs off his 40 balls.

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If taking Mustafizur Rahman to cleaners within the forty seventh over wasn’t adequate with a sequence of 6, 4, 6, 2 off the final 4 balls, Klaasen was extra extreme off Shoriful Islam – the opposite left-arm pacer – who changed him for the following over from the identical finish.

The 5 ball he confronted off Shoriful within the forty ninth over fetched him 18 runs, thus giving South Africa an out of doors probability of crossing the 400-run mark.

Klaasen’s carnage of tempo assault on the red-soil pitches on the Wankhede Stadium during the last three days has been constant.

On surfaces the place the ball bounces and carries, Klassen has been at his greatest.

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Even on Saturday, he was brutal towards England’s pacers, as in comparison with its spinners. While he scored a whopping 94 runs off the 48 balls he confronted from an off-radar England tempo pack, he tallied simply 23 runs off 18 balls towards spin.

If Quinton de Kock has been setting the inspiration, Klaasen has been taking the sport away from the opposition just about each time South Africa bats first.

If he can do the identical whereas chasing, the opposition assaults can be dreading much more whereas bowling to him.