Brits 114* helps South Africa bag NRR-boosting win over Netherlands
Brits and Wolvaardt shared a 121-run stand to help South Africa win by 88 runs
Brits and Wolvaardt shared a 121-run stand to help South Africa win by 88 runs
Scorer: Harshith Gowda | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar
9:54pm That will be all from us for tonight. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and we will be back with more women's T20 World Cup action tomorrow. Until then, on behalf of our scorer Harshith, and everyone else at Cricinfo, this is me (Shashwat) signing off. Goodbye, goodnight and take care!
Laura Wolvaardt, South Africa captain: (On the batting performance) Pretty decent effort with the bat. Identified early it was a good wicket and tried to go hard up front. Tazmin played excellently, and held the innings together. In the powerplay, they (Netherlands) got off to a pretty good start. We saw pace-off was working and made a few changes, and gained some control back. We need a few things to go our way as well. Need one more win. Winning the game is most important but if we find ourselves with an opportunity to win big, we will try our best. It will be awesome for us to play there (at Lord's). Bangladesh are a different side - lots of spinners. I would like to see us bat nice and positively against them.
Babette de Leede, Netherlands captain: We were thinking 170-180 would be par - wicket was very flat. Unfortunately, 200-plus was a bit too much. (On their batting powerplay) Sanya and Molkenboer batted really well but we could not get the momentum through the middle and at the death. Really happy to see the youngsters perform. Really excited for our next game. It is an amazing opportunity - every game, we have grown and grown. Fielding has improved, bowling has not been where we want it to be. Hopefully against Pakistan, it will all click. (On the fans) Amazing to have them here. People from home supporting us as well. Great to have that support. Orange army has been really good today.
Tazmin Brits, Player of the Match: (What she enjoyed about her innings) Not one of those innings where I can say I remember everything. To go over extra cover, I enjoyed that. Did not even realize I was close to it (my hundred), wanted to get us to 200. Really chuffed (to get it), especially at a World Cup. Wanted to show a bit more intent today, hopefully I can continue. (On her celebration) It was sign language, got asked to do a celebration in sign language, and it meant I am grateful to God. At the end of the day, I represent this badge, love this country, and want to contributeâŠas long as we get over the line (it does not matter if I am playing or not).
9:37pm A fairly convincing win for SA. Netherlands gave it a rattle at the start but found momentum tough to come by post the powerplay. Their openers were excellent but the lack of support from elsewhere meant that they ended up well short.
SA, without really being incisive throughout, put a lid on the scoring once the field restrictions were lifted. Tryon and Mlaba applied the squeeze, with de Klerk also getting on the board. Khaka helped herself to three wickets in the 20th over and that has added gloss to this victory, even though SA's staunchest cricket might say they could have been more clinical, especially at the start of the innings and during a powerplay in which they conceded 50.
de Lange to face the hat-trick ball
HWA Landheer b Khaka 0 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0
Landheer now
IJR Zwilling b Khaka 2 (5m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 66.66
van den Raad now
B de Leede c Dercksen b Khaka 11 (18m 12b 1x4 0x6) SR: 91.66
Final over coming up, and it will be bowled by Khaka
It hasn't gone Tazmin Brits' way of late, but against Netherlands, she did everything she is known for, and threw in a new celebration, to return to form
Brits and Wolvaardt shared a 121-run stand to help South Africa win by 88 runs
Sanya Khurana and Hannah Landheer came in for Siegers and Isabel van der Woning
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