The South African team will still have to wait long to win the ICC Trophy. The South African team also lost in the semi -finals of the 2025 Champions Trophy, for which they are known. In this match, he lost by 50 runs against New Zealand.
The match was quite high scoring, but the South African team could not pursue a target of 363 runs. After this defeat, South African legendary David Miller made a big statement and somehow attributed the ICC for his defeat.
Why did David Miller question the ICC?
After being out of the tournament, David Miller expressed his displeasure over the ICC travel system. The tournament is being played on the hybrid model, in which Team India will play all their matches in Dubai and the matches of other teams will be in Pakistan. Until the last group phase of the tournament, it was not clear from which team India would play in the semi -finals. In this situation, both the semi -finalist teams of Group B had to come to Dubai from South Africa and Australia. But after India’s victory over New Zealand, South Africa once again had to return to Pakistan as their semi -finals were to be played in Lahore. Miller called this additional journey wrong.
David Miller, ‘The flight was only one hour 40 minutes, but we had to travel this, which was not worth it. It was a morning flight, we had to travel after the match. Then we reached Dubai at 4 pm and we had to return at 7:30 am. It was not that we were returning from a 5 -hour flight, and we had enough time to relax and be completely healthy. But this situation was not ideal at all.
Strong innings in semi -final match
Even though the South Africa lost the semi -final match, David Miller showed a battle with bat. David Miller scored an unbeaten innings of 100 runs off 67 balls, including 10 fours and 4 sixes. Let us tell you that this was also the fastest century in the history of the Champions Trophy. But he could not win his team.
