South Africa Women Vs Sri Lanka Women 1st Match Group A 10 February 2023

1st T20 • Newlands • Cape Town

Sri Lanka Women

129/4 (20)

South Africa Women

126/9 (20)

SL-W won by 3 runs

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Player of the Match Chamari Atapattu

68(50)

SL-W

SA-W

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Sri Lanka Women

129/4 (20)

Batters

Harshitha Samarawickrama

40.00

c Brits b de Klerk

Chamari Atapattu

136.00

c de Klerk b Kapp

Vishmi Rajapaksha Gunaratne

102.94

runout (Brits)

Anushka Sanjeewani

83.33

Not out

Nilakshi de Silva

80.00

b Ismail

Ama Kanchana

80.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 2, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 6.45)

129/4

Did not Bat

Kavisha Dilhari, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Sugandika Kumari, Inoka Ranaweera, Achini Kulasuriya

Bowlers

EXT

Shabnim Ismail

5.50

Marizanne Kapp

3.75

Ayabonga Khaka

5.25

Nonkululeko Mlaba

7.75

Nadine de Klerk

9.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Harshitha Samarawickrama

c Brits b de Klerk

1-28

6.4

Vishmi Rajapaksha Gunaratne

runout (Brits)

2-114

17.1

Chamari Atapattu

c de Klerk b Kapp

3-114

17.2

Nilakshi de Silva

b Ismail

4-123

18.5

South Africa Women

126/9 (20)

Batters

Laura Wolvaardt

78.26

c Ranasinghe b Ranaweera

Tazmin Brits

66.67

c Kanchana b Ranasinghe

Marizanne Kapp

91.67

c Silva b Ranaweera

Sune Luus

103.70

st Sanjeewani b Ranaweera

Chloe Tryon

100.00

c Silva b Kumari

Anneke Bosch

0.00

b Kumari

Nadine de Klerk

63.64

c Silva b Ranasinghe

Sinalo Jafta

166.67

runout (Sanjeewani / Ranasinghe)

Shabnim Ismail

175.00

runout (Sanjeewani / Kumari)

Ayabonga Khaka

50.00

Not out

Nonkululeko Mlaba

166.67

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 1, W: 10)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 6.3)

126/9

Bowlers

EXT

Achini Kulasuriya

5.67

Ama Kanchana

8.00

Sugandika Kumari

7.00

Oshadi Ranasinghe

5.00

Inoka Ranaweera

4.50

Kavisha Dilhari

8.67

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Tazmin Brits

c Kanchana b Ranasinghe

1-29

4.5

Marizanne Kapp

c Silva b Ranaweera

2-44

7.3

Laura Wolvaardt

c Ranasinghe b Ranaweera

3-53

9.4

Chloe Tryon

c Silva b Kumari

4-72

12.2

Anneke Bosch

b Kumari

5-72

12.4

Nadine de Klerk

c Silva b Ranasinghe

6-95

16.3

Sune Luus

st Sanjeewani b Ranaweera

7-113

18.3

Sinalo Jafta

runout (Sanjeewani / Ranasinghe)

8-117

18.5

Shabnim Ismail

runout (Sanjeewani / Kumari)

9-120

19.2

Match Info

Date & Time

10 Feb, 10:30 PM IST

Venue

Newlands, Cape Town

Match

1st T20,

ICC Women's T20 World Cup

Umpires

Anna Harris (England), Kim Cotton (New Zealand), Eloise Sheridan (Australia, TV)

Referee

GS Lakshmi (India)

Toss

South Africa Women elected to bowl

6 1 W 0 0 2

Over 17

Runs: 9

1 2 4 2 0 4

Over 18

Runs: 13

1 1wd 1 W 4 W 0

Over 19

Runs: 7

2 1W 1 1 0 4

Over 20

Runs: 9

All Overs

Player of the Match Chamari Atapattu

68(50)

Commentary

The women's T20 World Cup was finally here but the result caught everyone by surprise. Sri Lanka's fighting spirit and never say die attitude helped them to prevail in the end. It will take some time for the Newlands crowd that turned up in good numbers to believe what they witnessed. But in the end, the deserving team won as South Africa didn't find any answer to solve the Sri Lankan spin puzzle. Let's see if this is the start of many surprises in store for us as the action shifts to Paarl for tomorrow's double-header. Do catch the live coverage on our Sportskeeda page at 6:00 pm IST as West Indies Women lock horns with England Women in the first match. Until then, it's goodbye and goodnight from Pragadeesh and Arya

Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka Women Captain): We build a good culture in the team. There are a lot of youngsters in the teams and the seniors share their knowledge. If I won the toss I would've batted first. 140-150 is a good total but we ended up with 129. We upset big teams on a couple of occasions and this time we wanted to play good cricket and try to go to the semi-finals. This is my 8th T20 world and I hope I can do better in this world cup and help the team reach the semis. The crowd supports Women's cricket and thanks to all of them for turning up

Sune Luus (South Africa Women Captain): First of all thanks to the crowd for coming. Hope you guys keep coming back and enjoy Women's Cricket as much as we do. Sri Lanka build good partnerships and we lacked those partnerships in our batting. I thought chasing 130 was a par score even 140-150 was a good total to chase. One match doesn't define the team, there is still a long way to go. A lot of positives to take. Our powerplay bowling was excellent

Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka captain and Player of the Match): I am really happy, I always try to lead from the front. I want to be a role model for the team. Our bowling attack and now today's batting is doing well. South Africa is one of the best teams in the world playing in their home conditions but happy to get away with the win. Vishmi is a new superstar in our team, very happy with her performance. Just play my natural game, just focus on the next game, and also focus on what is ahead,

Sri Lanka won by 3 runs
Chamari Athapaththu 68(50) | Sune Luus 28(27)
Inoka Ranaweera 3-18(4) | Oshadi Ranasinghe 2-20(4)

Who saw this coming? It's a magical win for Sri Lanka and they have surely sent a strong message to all the other teams. For South Africa, on the other hand, It's a tough loss to swallow in front of their home fans but they have to accept that they didn't live up to the expectations with the bat

It was a decent start in the powerplay for South Africa but the middle phase completely belonged to Sri Lanka as the spinners dominated proceedings and made the total of 130 look very big. Wicket kept tumbling as the South African middle order fell prey to the Sri Lankan spinners. Sune Luus got stuck at one end but she kept losing partners. The partnership between Luus and Jafta instilled some hope as the duo dragged the team back to the contest. With 20 runs needed in the final two overs, Ranaweera got rid of Luus before Jafta was run out while trying to take an unnecessary single. Two massive wickets in the penultimate over turned the match in Sri Lanka's favour and Kumari kept her cool and defended 13 runs in the final over

overs

126 /9 score

runs

Nonkululeko Mlaba *

5 (3)

Ayabonga Khaka

1 (2)

Sugandika Kumari

3 /28

19.6 Sugandika Kumari to Nonkululeko Mlaba, FOUR! A big win for Sri Lanka. Slices away the fuller-length delivery a shade outside off down towards the long-off region for a boundary. That accounts to nothing as Sri Lanka win a thriller by 3 runs.

19.5 Sugandika Kumari to Nonkululeko Mlaba, tossed-up delivery around off, an inside edge onto his pads ffor Mlaba.

8 needed off 2 deliveries. This ball has to disappear for a boundary or a maximum

19.4 Sugandika Kumari to Ayabonga Khaka, Khaka comes down the track and cuts away the length delivery outside off down towards cover-point for a single.

19.3 Sugandika Kumari to Nonkululeko Mlaba, fuller on middle, squeezed away down towards long-on for a single.

Nonkululeko Mlaba, RHB, walks in at no.11

19.2 Sugandika Kumari to Shabnim Ismail, WICKET! Ismail works away the length delivery on middle down towards the on side, played it with soft hands and was looking for a brace. It wasn't quite on and Ismail falls short off the crease and has to head back to the pavilion.

Shabnim Ismail run out (Kumari/ Sanjeewani) 7 (4b, 1x4, 0x6)

19.1 Sugandika Kumari to Shabnim Ismail, Ismail comes down the ground and drill it away back past the bowler and has enough time to return for a brace.

Sugandika Kumari (3-0-19-2) to bowl the final over of the match

Two extra fielders are asked to come inside the circle as Sri Lanka face an over-rate penalty

Nearly a triple wicket over and surely this is Sri Lanka's game to lose from here on. Ranaweera repaid Athapaththu's faith and delivered for the team but still the job is not fully done

overs

117 /8 score

1wd

runs

Ayabonga Khaka *

0 (1)

Shabnim Ismail

4 (2)

Inoka Ranaweera

4 /18

18.6 Inoka Ranaweera to Ayabonga Khaka, a tossed up delivery outside off, Khaka goes flashing hard at that, gets beaten on the outside edge and the keeper whips of the bails in a flash. Stumping check going on, clear gap between bat and ball. This looks very close to the naked eye. The foot might just be on the line here. Something is behind the line and the decision will be Not Out.

Ayabonga Khaka, RHB, walks in at no.10

18.5 Inoka Ranaweera to Shabnim Ismail, WICKET! Slower through the air, on a length around off, Ismail misses the attempted work through the leg side, trickles down towards short third man and they sets off for a non-existent single. An easy run out for Sri Lanka at the batting end.

Sinalo Jafta run out (Ranasinghe/Sanjeewani) 15 (9b, 2x4, 0x6)

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