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ICC Women’s T20 World Cup: India’s winning streak broken, Kapp’s all-round performance in thrilling win over South Africa

By Samira Vishwas

Manchester, 21 June. Buoyed by impressive wins over Pakistan and Netherlands in the opening two matches of the league stage, the Indian team’s unbeaten run was snapped on Sunday as two-time runners-up South Africa led Marianne Kapp’s all-round performance to seal a thrilling six-wicket win in the last over and revive their hopes of entering the semi-finals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

After taking two wickets, Kaap played the match-winning inning of 81 runs unbeaten.

India’s batsmen, who came to bat first at the Old Trafford Ground, could not answer the opposition bowlers openly and the entire team could reach only 158 runs for seven wickets. Kaap, who took two wickets by spending only 27 runs with her medium pace bowling, also performed brilliantly with the bat and with the help of her explosive half-century (81 not out, 45 balls, four sixes, seven fours), South Africa scored 161 runs for four wickets in 19.1 overs.

India slipped to second place after Australia in Group 1

After this defeat in Group One, the path to the semi-finals has become a bit difficult for India as it has to play against record six-time former champion Australia on June 28. Before that, India will face Bangladesh on 25th June. While Australia is on top with six points from three matches, India, South Africa and Bangladesh have four points each from three matches. However, India is in second place on the basis of better net run rate.

Early pressure from Sri Charani (3-24) did not work

The South African team, which came to chase the target of 159 runs, had a very slow start. At the score of only 25 in the sixth over, left-arm spinner Sri Charani (3-24) had returned captain Laura Wolvaardt (20 runs, 21 balls, one six, two fours) and Anne Derksen (0) within three balls. However, after this, the pressure on the Indian team kept increasing due to not being able to take wickets in the middle overs.

Decisive partnership of 97 runs between Cope and Brits

There was a strong partnership of 97 runs on 63 balls for the third wicket between ‘Player of the Match’ Kapp and Tajmin Britts (40 runs, 36 balls, one six, two fours) and the match turned in favor of South Africa. In the 17th over, Shefali Verma tried to create excitement in the match by dismissing Brits, but Cap did not give any chance. She ensured the team’s victory by hitting two sixes on Deepti Sharma in the 19th over. However, Kaap was also lucky, whose replacement fielder Radha Yadav dropped catches twice.

Indian batting looked under pressure after aggressive start

Before this, India started aggressively and scored 23 runs in the first two overs. However, in the third over, experienced all-rounder Kaap gave the first blow to India by bowling Smriti Mandhana (17 runs, 12 balls, three fours). Shefali Verma (31 runs, 15 balls, one six, four fours) showed aggressive attitude and hit two fours and a six on the first three balls of Chloe Tryon in the fourth over. 17 runs were added in this over.

Currently, in the last over of the powerplay, Shabnim Ismail (2-28) took the wicket of Shefali. After this, Yastika Bhatia (15 runs, 13 balls, three fours) also could not last long. After the third wicket fell at the score of 67, the Indian innings slowed down and wickets kept falling at regular intervals.

score card

Not a single batsman among Jemimah Rodrigues (12 runs, 14 balls, one four), captain Harmanpreet Kaur (24 runs, 22 balls, two fours), Deepti Sharma (29 runs, 21 balls, three fours) and Richa Ghosh (15 runs, 14 balls, two fours) could open and the team was restricted to within 160 runs.

Unbeaten on 200 – Harmanpreet created history

Overall, the only achievement from the Indian point of view in the match was that Harmanpreet became the first cricketer in the world to play 200 T20 International matches in both men’s and women’s cricket.

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