South Africa wicket-keeper batter Heinrich Klaasen reveals their gameplan in batting on a tough wicket after the narrow win against Bangladesh in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.

South Africa beat Bangladesh by 4 runs in another low scoring thriller in New York on Monday (June 11). Tanzim Hasan Sakib ran riot through the South African top order to leave them reeling at 24-4. However, David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen depicted a comeback partnership to bring Proteas back into the game before Bangladesh pulled things back in the death overs. In reply, the bowlers of South Africa showed their class to hand Proteas a 4 run narrow victory over Bangladesh.

“Laughs It was not so nice on the heart but glad to go over the line,” Klaasen said after being named the player of the match.

Miller and Klaasen made a 79-run partnership for fifth wicket and gave South Africa a fighting total of 113 runs in the matches. Klaasen scored 46 runs of 44 balls with 2 fours and 3 sixes. “The wicket is not great for strokeplay but David showed in the previous game how to bat on this wicket. Got info from him. We got a decent score but were 10 runs short. We got experience and more or less a one-day mindset till the 15-over mark,” Klaasen added.