The South Africans went from needing just 30 to win off 30 balls to having to score 16 runs off the last over due to the chokehold deployed by Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya along with the Indian fielders.
They ended up losing the match by seven runs in a result that captain Aiden Markram said he took a long time to recover from. However, it is clear now that the South Africans can see the lighter side of the defeat with spinner Tabraiz Shamsi joking about the catch while reacting to a viral video from playground cricket.
In the video, the players can be seen going to extraordinary lengths to see if a fielder had crossed the boundary line or not while taking the catch.
"If they used this method to check the catch in the world cup final maybe it would have been given not out," said Shamsi with a smiling emoji in response to the video.