🏏ICC Women's T20I WC 2024: Group B - Match 20: EngW vs WIW 🏏 - Page 39

Game over.

RSAW 166/5 (20)

SCOW 86 (17.5)

CRR: 4.82

South Africa Women won by 80 runs

RSAW 166/5 (20)

SCOW 86 (17.5)

South Africa Women won by 80 runs

A landslide win and that will help South Africa's NRR too. At the half-way stage, it seemed they had plenty on the board and once Tryon dismissed Kathryn and Sarah Bryce inside the powerplay, that notion gained further weight.

Another batting outing to forget for Scotland. They were outclassed by South Africa had no answers to the questions the 2023 finalists posed. Only two of their batters got into double-digits, with extras being the third-highest contributor. And that, unfortunately, sums it up for Scotland.

16:56 local, 12:56 GMT, 18:26 IST: Skipper Laura Wolvaardt had no hesitation in opting to bat when she won the toss. The idea was simple. She mentioned that her team's best chance to win this game is to put runs on the board. The batters didn't let her down. As many as three batters struck 40-plus scores and helped South Africa record the highest total in this edition

Congratulations to South Africa for winning the match.

Congratulations to Marizanne Kapp for winning the PoTM award.

Cheers..

Marizanne Kapp | Player of the Match: Little bit nervous at the start of the match. Wicket was lot slower today, played a bit slower. The heat has been really tough, luckily the two day games are out of the way. Today was the slowest it has been. We have been working on a few options against spin and it came off. It's more a confidence thing for me. Focussing more on the basics, backing my strengths. Good total, would have liked it if we had pushed to 180-190 considering where we were but good learnings and we now face Bangladesh on this.

After posting 166, all the Proteas needed to do was back it up with a decent bowling performance and the bowlers stepped up big time by knocking Scotland out cheaply. Only 2 batters managed to get into double-digit scores and barring Kapp, every other bowler got a wicket under their name. Just the ideal game for South Africa before heading into their final league game against Bangladesh this saturday.

Kathryn Bryce | Scotland skipper: Just the little moments, few chances and it proved costly at the end and lost a few wickets early and we were always behind the game. When you are in that sort of pressure, tough to execute. Great to share the field and knowledge with them (South Africa). It is always going to be tough (facing England), back there in Sharjah it will be different conditions, we will try and see what we can learn from the games and all the practice and see where we end up.

Laura Wolvaardt, South Africa captain: (On the performance) Can't ask for much more. Excellent all-round (display). (On NRR being a factor) We did speak about it coming into this game. Tough to decide what to do at the toss. We felt the best chance to win the game was to put a lot of runs on the board and restrict them. After the powerplay, we were looking at 160-170. (On the flexibility in their batting order) He (the batting coach) has sleepless nights in his room thinking about the batter order (smiles). We wanted to be ruthless and show what we are about and kill it off the way we did. Every day has been different. You can come in with all the plans in the world but every game has been different. Nice to have so many bowling options and all-round options. (On the match against Bangladesh) Massive game for us, we need a win. This will give us a lot of confidence and hopefully we can hit the ground running for that game.