ICC Womens T20 World Cup 2024: South Africa has caused a major upset in the ICC Women's T20 World Cup. Thanks to tight bowling and Anneke Bosh's brilliant half-century of 74 not out, it defeated the six-time champion Australian team by eight wickets on Thursday and secured a place in the final of the mega event. South Africa defeated Australia for the first time in the T20 World Cup.
Earlier, both the teams had faced each other in the final of the 2023 session in the mega event. In this title match, Australia had won by 19 runs. Now on Sunday, South Africa will face the winning team of the second semi-final between New Zealand and West Indies.
Bosh broke the dream of Australian team
Bosh, who was the 'Player of the Match', played an unbeaten inning of 74 runs in 48 balls with the help of 8 fours and one six. Thanks to this inning of Bosh, South Africa broke the Australian team's dream of entering the final for the eighth time by scoring 135 runs for two wickets in 17.2 overs.
Earlier, South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first. Australia made a slow start to the innings and the team could score only 134 runs for five wickets. Australia has played semi-finals in all nine sessions of this tournament, which started in 2009.
The aggressive partnership of 96 runs in 65 balls between captain Lara Wolvaardt (42 runs) and Bosh for the second wicket played an important role in South Africa's victory. Wolwart hit three fours and one six in 37 balls. Whereas Tajmin Brits scored 15 runs in 15 balls with the help of one four and 1 six.
Beth Mooney played a good innings
Anabel Sutherland took both the wickets of South Africa. Whereas for Australia, wicketkeeper batsman Beth Mooney played the highest innings of 44 runs for the team. Captain Tahlia McGrath contributed 27 runs. In the end, with Elise Perry's 31 runs in 23 balls and Phoebe Litchfield's unbeaten 16 runs in 9 balls, the Australian team was able to reach the score of 134 runs.
Ayabonga Khaka bowled tremendously
In the end, South Africa gave away 40 runs in the last four overs. Despite this, South Africa bowled tightly, in which Ayabonga Khaka took two wickets for 24 runs in a spell of 4 overs. While Marizanne Kapp and Nonkululeko Mlaba got one success each. For Australia, wicketkeeper Beth Mooney along with captain McGrath made an important partnership of 50 runs in 55 balls for the third wicket. But Mlaba's ball ended McGrath's 33-ball innings. During this period he hit three fours. At the same time, Beth Mooney was run out by Kaap. Kaap hit only two fours during his innings of 42 balls. In this way the team lost the fourth wicket for 99 runs. Perry and Lichfield together made important contributions in taking the team to this score. Lichfield hit three fours in the innings of just 9 balls.
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