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Match Details
NZW vs SAW 5th T20, NZW vs SAW 2023
NZW
144-820.0
South Africa Women won by 11 runs 🏆
SAW
20.0155-5
Player of the Match
Masabata Klaas
South Africa Women3/26
NZW - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 43 | 39 | 10 Over | 67 | 64 | 15 Over | 106 | 112 |
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SAW - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 44 | 46 | 10 Over | 75 | 75 | 15 Over | 116 | 115 | 20 Over | 161 | 155 |
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That's all we have from this game and this series, everyone. We hope you enjoyed this live coverage. For now, on behalf of Deepak Prakash, and scorer/analyst Paras Yadav. This is Navjeevan Rajput signing off.
Right then, it ends with all smiles between the two sides who pose together with the trophy as the series is drawn 1-1. With that, the White Ferns' tour of South Africa comes to a close. They lost the ODI series against the hosts 2-1 earlier and will take a lot of learnings from this tour.
Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa Captain): "Yea I think it was an incredible bowling performance at the end we looked down and out for most of it but the bowlers never lost hope. The pacers nailed those Yorkers really well there. Yea, really happy that it all came together at the right time."
Masabata Klaas (Player of the Match): "Yeah, I must say I'm very excited with the way I performed today. But I'm also my team and everyone who supported me today. I must say, like, it's something that we've been always working on. I exhibited what I had to do today, so it came out the way I wanted it to. I must say, like, we stayed calm and we kept on hitting our lines as a bowler and we kept it simple."
Amelia Kerr (Player of the series): "Yeah I am feeling nice about my game, it's just about keeping my game simple and having clarity about my game. Unfortunate to not get my side across the line today. Maybe we could have taken the game on earlier today, but credit to South African bowlers who came back hard."
Sophie Devine (New Zealand Women Captain): "Look, I thought South Africa played a really good game. They learned from yesterday's mistakes and batted well. I thought we missed a couple of opportunities in the field, but in saying that, I thought we were well set up at the halfway mark. I think it was very similar to yesterday's game. We just couldn't get across the line. And I thought that was down to their fantastic death bowling.
Look, I think it was maybe fractionally sharp, but slower, but you'd expect that with it being a second-day wicket. But again, that was very similar to what the game was yesterday and we won. So I think you can't take credit away from South Africa for the way they bowled there. So I think it's a fair result with today's game. There are some positives.
Suzie is an absolute legend, not just of the game here in New Zealand, but around the world. And to achieve 4000 international T 20 runs is pretty special and we'll really celebrate that. It's something that doesn't happen too often."
Look, I think it was maybe fractionally sharp, but slower, but you'd expect that with it being a second-day wicket. But again, that was very similar to what the game was yesterday and we won. So I think you can't take credit away from South Africa for the way they bowled there. So I think it's a fair result with today's game. There are some positives.
Suzie is an absolute legend, not just of the game here in New Zealand, but around the world. And to achieve 4000 international T 20 runs is pretty special and we'll really celebrate that. It's something that doesn't happen too often."
8:41 PM IST, 17:11 Local Time: Time for the post-match presentation.
20:33 IST, 17:03 Local Time: Wow, this game just turned on its head in the last few overs. New Zealand looked well on top, but wickets tumbled in the death overs, and South Africa pulled off a fantastic comeback to level this series 1-1.
Earlier, South Africa were asked to bat first and they had a good start as their top order found runs at the top. However, they lost wickets regularly in the second half of their innings and could post just 155 runs on the board. For New Zealand, Tahuhu and Penfold got a couple of wickets, while Kerr got the wicket of Tryon at the backend.
Coming in to chase a target of 156 runs. New Zealand had a decent start but lost their opener Anderson early. Bates and Kerr came together to stitch a 97-run partnership to keep the required run rate in check initially and increased the scoring rate rapidly once they were well set. Kerr got to her half-century but Bates became the only batter to cross the 4000 run mark in WT20Is.
New Zealand looked well in control to chase this total, but once Kerr was at the start of the 18th over, the White Ferns had an absolute collapse and went on to lose this game by 11 runs. For South Africa, all hope seemed lost for the first three-quarters of this run-chase. However, Klaas got two wickets in the 18th over and provided her side with an outside chance. Klerk and Khaka bowling in the last two overs supported her well and helped South Africa pull off an amazing win here today.
OVER 20
New Zealand Women
144/8
Eden Carson
3(2)
Georgia Plimmer
5(5)
Ayabonga Khaka
1-23(4.0)
19.6 A Khaka to G Plimmer
1 Full and around off. Plimmer drives it to mid-off for a single. That's it, brilliant comeback from the Proteas Women bowlers and they managed to defend 155 runs, winning the match by 11 runs to end the series at 1-1.
19.5 A Khaka to G Plimmer
2 Full and on the leg stump line. Plimmer flicks it to square leg and returns for the second run.
That should do it for South Africa unless Khaka bowls a no-ball here.
19.4 A Khaka to E Carson
1 A toe crusher from Khaka. Yorker straight on the middle stump line. Carson manages to get her inner half of bat on it as the ball rolls down to short fine leg for a single.
16 runs needed from three balls now. New Zealand needs a boundary somehow.
19.3 A Khaka to E Carson
2 Full and on the stumps. Carson lofts it to long-on for a couple of runs.
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