New Delhi: South Africa beat India by 12 runs in the first women’s T20I at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday, July 5. The Women in Blue won the ODI series against Proteas women by 3-0 and also defeated them by 10 wickets in the one-off Test match. But Harmanpreet and Co. failed to continue their winning run and lost the first WT20I.
Tazmin, Kapp hammer Indian bowlers
South Africa scored 189 runs in the 20 overs with the help of crucial knocks from Tazmin Brits and Marizanne Kapp. Laura Wolvaardt’s 50-run-opening partnership with Brits provided a great start to South Africa’s innings. After losing the wicket of Wolvaardt, Brits and Kapp put pressure on the Indian bowlers in the middle overs and stitched a 96-run partnership for the second wicket. Brits scored 81 runs off 56 balls, her remarkable knock was laced with 10 boundaries and three maximums. Kapp also scored 57 runs off 33 balls. Radha Yadav and Pooja Vastrakar picked up two wickets each.
Jemimah’s knock in vain
Chasing the target of 190 runs, Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana provided Team India a brilliant start. Ayabonga Khaka dismissed Shafali in the sixth over but Mandhana kept playing aggressive shots. Chole Tryon got her wicket in the 10th over and Hemalatha also failed to make a big contribution with the bat. Jemimah Rodrigues stitched a 90-run partnership with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur but failed to take the team over the line. Rodrigues scored an unbeaten 53 runs off 30 balls.
After the match Indian captain said that her team didn’t play good cricket and dropped many chances on the field “Definitely we didn’t play good cricket overall. Dropped too many chances in the field, played too many dot balls in the middle overs. They bowled well. But the way we started we just needed to keep going. But with the dot balls, we weren’t able to make it” Kaur said in the post-match presentation.
While the South African skipper praised her bowlers and said that they did a great job to defend the total “Much nicer standing here now. In the Test match we started to show that fight. Not too upset batting first in the end. It was tough to defend but the bowlers did well to stretch it out” Laura Wolvaardt said after the match.
Marizanne Kapp and Tazmin Brits’ fantastic fifties helped South Africa to beat India by 12 runs in the first women’s T20I at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Cricket Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
