New Zealand became the champion of T20 World Cup 2024, recorded a big victory over South Africa in the final.

SA-W vs NZ-A Women’s T20 World Cup 2024: The Women's T20 world has got its new champion. Yes… New Zealand won the World Cup title by defeating South Africa in the final of the World Cup 2024 played at the Dubai International Stadium. This is the first T20 World Cup for the New Zealand women's cricket team. Let us tell you that New Zealand men's cricket team has also not won the T20 World Cup.

New Zealand won by this many runs

South Africa had a target of 159 runs to win the T20 World Cup. South African batting was a complete flop except for captain Laura Wolvaardt. Laura scored 33 runs on 27 balls. Apart from this, no batsman could face the bowling of New Zealand and the entire team could score only 126 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 32 runs.

Excellent bowling by Mayer and Kerr

Rosemary Mair and Emily Kerr bowled brilliantly for the Kiwi team. Mayer took 3 wickets for 2 runs in 4 overs and Emily Kerr took 3 wickets for 24 runs in 4 overs. Carson, Jonas and Brook took 1-1 wicket.

New Zealand had made 158

South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, New Zealand scored 158 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs with the help of Suzie Bates' 32 runs, Emily Kerr's 43 runs and Brooke Halliday's 38 runs.

For South Africa, Nonkululeko Mlaba took 2 wickets for 31 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, the wicket was expensive and he took 1 wicket for 44 runs in 4 overs. Tryon took 1 wicket for 22 runs in 4 overs and Clarke took 1 wicket for 17 runs in 2 overs.

South Africa will have to wait

Neither the South African men's nor women's team has been successful in winning the T20 or ODI World Cup. This year the men's team also played the final of the T20 World Cup in which it had to face defeat from India. After the men, the women's team also reached but it also had to face defeat from the Kiwi team. South Africa will have to wait longer for the World Cup.

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