South Africa’s skipper, Laura Wolvaardt, played the sheet anchor and Nadine de Klerk the aggressor as they steered their team to a thumping six-wicket victory over England in the first women’s ODI at the Diamond Oval in Kimberley on Wednesday.
The victory, in the first of three matches, was particularly welcome for the South Africans after they had been whitewashed 3-0 in the T20I series by the tourists.
Wolvaardt, who survived two chances, battled gamely early on after she lost two top-order batters, Tazmin Brits and Sune Luus, cheaply to leg before decisions that were not tested by ball-tracking on review as that machinery had broken down. Despite South Africa’s relative success, they could and probably should have dismissed England for fewer runs with Charlie Dean and Ecclestone bailing out the tourists with a record eighth-wicket partnership for England against South Africa of 67 in 69 balls.Kapp, swinging the ball away from the right-handed batter, grabbed the wickets of both England openers Tammy Beaumont and Sophie Dunkley, as well as the key scalp of Natalie Sciver-Brunt, leg before for a duck.
Left-arm spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba claimed two wickets, but they were expensive as she conceded 47 runs.
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