South Africa Knocked Out Australia from ICC Women's T20 World Cup: South Africa entered the final of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup by defeating the six-time champion Australian team by eight wickets, thanks to a brilliant half-century by Anneke Bosch (74 not out) after some tight bowling. South Africa has defeated Australia for the first time in the T20 World Cup. Before this, South Africa had to lose all the last seven matches against Australia. Now on Sunday, South Africa will face the winner of the second semi-final between New Zealand and West Indies.
The Women's T20 World Cup started in 2009 and since then this is only the third time that Australia has faced defeat in the knockout. Earlier, Australia had lost the semi-final against England in 2009 and the final against West Indies in 2016. With this defeat, Australia's winning streak of 15 consecutive matches in the Women's T20 World Cup has also been broken. Let us tell you, it was South Africa, which broke Australia's 11 consecutive winning streak in Women's T20.
If we talk about the match, South Africa won by 8 wickets in 17.2 overs on the basis of Bosh's unbeaten inning of 74 runs in 48 balls. Bosh completed her half-century in just 31 balls in this match, which is the fastest half-century by any African woman in the Women's T20 World Cup. Bosh had hit eight fours and one six during his innings.
The aggressive partnership of 96 runs in 65 balls for the second wicket between captain Laura Wolwart (42 runs) and Bosh played an important role in South Africa's victory. This is the highest partnership made by South Africa for any wicket in Women's T20 against Australia. Wolwart hit three fours and one six in 37 balls while Tajmin Britts scored 15 runs in 15 balls with one four and one six. Annabel Sutherland took both the wickets of South Africa.
Earlier, after being invited to bat, the Australian team, which had a slow start, could score only 134 runs for five wickets. Wicketkeeper batsman Beth Mooney was the highest run scorer for Australia, who scored 44 runs. Captain Tahlia McGrath contributed 27 runs. In the end, the Australian team reached this score with the help of Alice Perry's 31 runs in 23 balls and Phoebe Litchfield's unbeaten 16 runs in nine balls. In the end, South Africa gave away 40 runs in the last four overs. Australia has played semi-finals in all nine seasons of this tournament, which started in 2009.
South Africa bowled hard with Ayabonga Khaka taking two wickets for 24 runs in four overs while Marizanne Kapp and Nonkululeko Mlaba got one wicket each. Australia got the first blow in the second over with the dismissal of Grace Harris who was caught out on the ball of Khaka. Georgia Wareham (05) could only hit one four in her innings and was caught by the wicketkeeper on Kap's ball.
Wicketkeeper Beth Mooney along with captain McGrath made a partnership of 50 runs in 55 balls for the third wicket. But Mlaba's ball ended McGrath's 33-ball innings in which he hit three fours. Beth Mooney was run out by Kapp who hit two fours during her 42-ball innings. In this way the team lost the fourth wicket for 99 runs. Perry and Lichfield together helped the team reach this score. Lichfield hit three fours in his nine-ball innings.
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