South Africa will take on New Zealand (SA-W vs NZL-W) in Group-A of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, 2023 at 10.30 pm on Monday, 13 February. In this match, South Africa defeated New Zealand by 65 runs and won the first win in this recent World Cup.
In this match, South Africa won the toss and batting first scored 132 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs, in which Chloe Tryon scored the highest 40 runs for South Africa. Eden Carson and Lee Tahuhu took 2-2 wickets in New Zealand’s bowling.
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Chasing the target of 133 runs in 20 overs from South Africa, the New Zealand team’s batting was poor in the beginning and within the score of 18 runs in the powerplay, its 4 wickets were blown. Then, in the 10th over, the 5th wicket also fell at the score of 31. In the 14th over, Chloe Tryon took two more wickets and broke New Zealand’s back. The entire New Zealand team was bundled out for 67 runs in 18.1 overs with 11 balls to spare.
For South Africa, Nonkululeko Mlaba took 3 wickets for just 10 runs in a spell of 4 overs. Chloe Tryon was awarded Player of the Match for her outstanding all-round performance.
South Africa have 2 points in the points table with 1 win and 1 loss in 2 matches so far. Whereas, New Zealand have 0 points after losing 2 matches.
Playing-XI of South Africa-W and New Zealand-W
New Zealand (New Zealand-W Team)
Devine (Captain), Suzie Bates, Bernadine Sophie Bezuidenhout, Eden Carson, Maddy Green, Hayley Jensen, Fran Jonas, Amelia Kerr, Jess Kerr, Georgia Plimmer, Lea Tahuhu.
South Africa (South Africa-W)
Sune Luus (Captain), Marizanne Kapp, Ayabonga Khaka, Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Shabnim Ismail, Tazmin Brits, Laura Wolvaardt, Sinalo Jafta, Nonkululeko Mlaba, Delmi Tucker.
-Vinay Kumar