South Africa’s Tazmin Brits in motion towards England through the ICC Ladies’s Cricket T20 World Cup Ultimate on the Newlands Cricket Floor, Cape City, South Africa on Feb.26, 2023.
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Tazmin Brits performed an important position in main South Africa Ladies to a 50-run victory with a outstanding unbeaten 98-run innings within the opening T20I towards West Indies Ladies on the 3W’s Oval, Cave Hill Campus in Barbados lately.
Brits was awarded Participant-of-the-Match. She reached her complete in solely 63 deliveries, together with 9 fours and 4 sixes, taking her group to 183 for six of their 20 overs after they have been despatched into bat.
Brits displayed an outstanding batting efficiency as she got here to her group’s rescue after they misplaced the early wickets of the opener, captain Laura Wolvaardt, and Marizanne Kapp, slipping to 25 for two within the fifth over.
She fashioned sturdy partnerships, together with a 71-run partnership with Nadine de Klerk for the third in 10 overs.
Brits achieved her first T20I half-century in simply 34 balls by smacking Jahzara Claxton for a 4 and 6 off consecutive deliveries two overs later.
Claxton broke the partnership in the identical over, having de Klerk caught and bowled for 21 off 17 balls.
Brits then solid essential partnerships with Miane Smit, Chloe Tryon and Karabo Meso, to hold South Africa as much as a aggressive complete.
It was South Africa Ladies’s highest T20I rating towards the West Indies.
Claxton was the perfect bowler for the Windies, bagging 3-39 from her 4 overs.
The West Indies Ladies’s run chase faltered early as a consequence of shedding wickets at common intervals, with Qiana Joseph being caught by Tryon with simply six runs on the board.
Realeanna Grimmond was run out for simply 4, and captain Hayley Matthews was caught by de Klerk off the Kapp for 19. West Indies have been in bother at 42 for 3 within the sixth over.
Six runs later, Shemaine Campbelle was again within the pavilion with 16 runs, and the run chase successfully got here to an finish when Shabika Gajnabi was bowled by Nonkululeko Mlaba for a duck to go away the West Indies 49 for five.
Jannillea Glasgow’s resilient unbeaten knock of 53 runs from 44 balls supplied some resistance for the West Indies Ladies. She added 81 runs for the sixth wicket with Chinelle Henry, who made 26 from 32 balls, however their innings fell brief as South Africa emerged victorious.
Kapp took 2-27 for South Africa.
