{"id":27627,"date":"2022-03-19T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?p=27627"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T17:17:37","slug":"bavuma-admits-pink-day-odi-a-must-win-with-sa-struggling-for-auto-world-cup-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/bavuma-admits-pink-day-odi-a-must-win-with-sa-struggling-for-auto-world-cup-qualification","title":{"rendered":"Bavuma admits Pink Day ODI a must win with SA struggling for auto World Cup qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Proteas&#8217; automatic 2023 World Cup qualification hopes hang by a thread after Friday&#8217;s 38-run loss to Bangladesh at SuperSport Park in Centurion and this is something their leader Temba Bavuma is aware of.<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas may have beaten India 3-0 at the start of the year in their ODI engagement, but that success didn&#8217;t contribute any ICC World Cup ODI Super League points.<\/p>\n<p>The series against Bangladesh does and when it comes to collecting ODI Super League points, the Proteas haven&#8217;t been flashy in that department.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve only won three out of their 11 ODI Super League games, a predicament that leaves them in 11th place with 39 points.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll need to win the remaining two games to remove the West Indies from eighth-place and while they still have matches against Australia, England, India, and the Netherlands before their die is cast.<\/p>\n<p>However, that&#8217;s not a given considering their poor ODI Super League form and should they fail to make the top eight cut, they&#8217;ll have to take part in a qualifying tournament consisting of five other teams that didn&#8217;t make the cut, along with five other lower division sides for the two remaining World Cup spots out of the 10.<\/p>\n<p>Bavuma said it wasn&#8217;t clear to him as to where they are from a points perspective, but knows they need to win the second ODI on Sunday at the Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of the points, I&#8217;m not too sure where that leaves us, but what I do know is that Sunday is a must-win game for us,&#8221; Bavuma said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to up our game in all the different departments, so if we do that, that&#8217;ll look after the points we require.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no guaranteed points just because we&#8217;re playing Bangladesh. We need to play good cricket and play the cricket that we know we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the issues Bavuma will have to avoid from a points deduction perspective is a sluggish over-rate.<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas were 29 minutes behind schedule in Friday&#8217;s 38-run loss, but that partly had to do with Shakib Al Hasan&#8217;s leg injury that needed attention.<\/p>\n<p>While Bavuma agreed their slow over-rate wasn&#8217;t their fault, it&#8217;s something that&#8217;ll have to be addressed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re behind the over-rate, that&#8217;s a general indication of your intensity on the field,&#8221; Bavuma said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something that we did speak about and something we want to focus on. So if we&#8217;re guilty of being behind the over-rate, that&#8217;s something that we&#8217;ll have to speak about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The Proteas&#8217; automatic 2023 World Cup qualification hopes hang by a thread after Friday&#8217;s 38-run loss to Bangladesh at SuperSport Park in Centurion and this is something their leader Temba Bavuma is aware of. 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