Australia Women vs South Africa Women, 2nd T20 match
South Africa women’s team won the second match of the 3-match T20 series being played on the tour of Australia by 6 wickets. With this, the African women’s team was able to win against Australia in any format for the first time in international cricket. In the second match of the series played on the Canberra grounds, Australia Women’s team, batting first, scored 142 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs, while South Africa’s Women’s team achieved this target at the loss of 4 wickets in 19 overs. With this win, the series has now been leveled at 1-1.
Captain Volvadart played an important role
Chasing the target of 143 runs, the pair of captain Laura Volvadart and Tanzim Britts gave a good start to the South Africa Women’s team. Together, they took the score to 41 runs without any loss in the first 6 overs. After this, Africa got the first blow on the score of 75 in the form of Tanzeem Brits who returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 41 runs in 28 balls. Whereas Volvadart continued to take the innings forward from one end and took the score beyond 100 runs. A brilliant unbeaten inning of 58 runs in 53 balls was seen from Volvadart’s bat and she returned after leading the team to victory in this match.
Masabata class showed wonders with the ball
In this match, the bowling performance of the South African team was also seen, on the basis of which it was successful in restricting the Australian women’s team to the score of 142. For Africa, Masabata Klaas took 2 wickets giving just 16 runs in her 4 overs, apart from this, Marijanne Kapp, Nadine de Klerk and Mbalba took 1 wicket each. While batting for Australia, Grace Harris scored 31 runs and captain Alyssa Healy scored 29 runs. Now the decisive match of the series between the two teams will be played on January 30 at Hobart ground.
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