IND Women vs SA Women: In the Group-1 match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup at Old Trafford, Manchester, South Africa’s legendary Marizanne Cap gave an amazing performance and gave India its first defeat of the tournament. On the basis of the biggest innings of Cap’s career, the Proteas team achieved the target of 159 runs in 19.1 overs and registered a thrilling victory. With this, South Africa achieved its second win in 3 matches. At the same time, India had to face its first defeat in 3 matches.
Team India failed to score big
The Indian team won the toss in the match and decided to bat first. But the team could score only 158 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Team India had a great start and in the first 6 overs the team scored 59 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. But after this there was a huge decline in the pace of runs. During this, Smriti Mandhana laid a good foundation by scoring 17 runs and Shefali Verma by scoring 31 runs. But Yastika Bhatia returned to the pavilion after scoring 15 runs and Jemimah Rodrigues 15 runs.
After this, Harmanpreet Kaur scored 24 runs and Deepti Sharma scored 29 runs, but no one could play a big innings. On the other hand, for South Africa, Marizanne Cap took 2 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs. Apart from him, Shabnim Ismail also took 2 wickets.
South Africa dig deep to secure a hard-fought win over India to make things interesting in Group A
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Marijane Cap’s match winning innings
Chasing the target, South Africa had a bad start and scored only 25 runs after losing 2 wickets in the powerplay. But Marijane Kapp along with Tajmin Brits took over the innings. After Britt’s dismissal, Cap continued to bat aggressively and scored unbeaten 81 runs in just 45 balls, hitting 7 fours and 4 sixes. Due to which the South African team achieved the target at the loss of 4 wickets in 19.1 overs. This is also the biggest innings of Marijane Cap in T20I cricket.
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