New Zealand won the Women’s T20 World Cup
The team could not return home with the title despite playing the T20 World Cup final twice in a row. New Zealand beat the Proteas to win the Women’s T20 World Cup for the first time today.
New Zealand beat South Africa by 32 runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Batting first, New Zealand made a huge collection of 158 runs, losing 5 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. Despite playing all the overs in response, the Proteas could not score more than 126 runs after losing 9 wickets.
New Zealand lost 10 consecutive matches before entering the World Cup. However, by entering the World Cup, they become a different team. In the group stage match lost to strong India. Losing in the semi-final by a narrow run to the one-time champions West Indies.
In the final, they could not play the first 10 overs 2 balls as expected. At this time, he lost 3 wickets to score 70 runs. In the last 58 balls, New Zealand added to their scoreboard and lost 3 wickets for 88 runs! Its biggest achievements were Amelia Kerr who came in third and Brooke Hallid who came in fifth. Kerr scored 43 off 38 balls for the team. And Halid’s bat came with 38 runs in 28 balls. Sufi Bates scored 32 runs from 31 balls, the third highest for the team. It added a huge collection of 158 runs to New Zealand’s scoreboard.
South Africa got off to a great start in pursuit of huge runs. 50 runs without losing any wicket before 7 overs. They lost their first wicket for 51 runs in the fifth ball of the seventh over. Opener Tazmin Britz scored 17 runs off 18 balls. Another opener and captain Laura Woolvert was out for 59 runs. He scored 33 runs off 27 balls.
After the departure of the two openers, South Africa could not turn around. The team scored 70 runs after losing 2 wickets in the first 10 overs and scored only 56 runs after losing 7 wickets in the last 20 overs. The Proteas stopped at 126 runs.
After scoring 43 runs with the bat, Kerr took 3 wickets with the ball. He is the man of the match. The Kiwis won the Women’s ODI World Cup once in 2000. But this is the first time in 20 over cricket. The title has not been seen in the finals twice before. Finally, that wish was fulfilled this time.
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