Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

S Mandhana
136(120) 18x4 - 2x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 45 runs
  • 6x4 - 0x6
5 5 6 5 44 14 12 45
L Wolvaardt
135(135) 12x4 - 3x6
Control %81%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 31 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
0 2 4 13 34 25 16 41

Best performances - Bowlers

N Mlaba
N Mlaba
O10
M0
R51
W2
Eco5.10
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
P Vastrakar
P Vastrakar
O7
M0
R54
W2
Eco7.71
RHB
OFFLEG
2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

South Africa Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

India Women led the 3-match series 2-0

Season

Hours of play (local time)

13.30 start, First Session 13.30-16.40, Interval 16.40-17.10, Second Session 17.10-20.20

Match days

19 June 2024 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

India Women 2, South Africa Women 0

Scorer: Harshith Gowda | Commentator: Aaditya Narayan

END OF OVER:
50 | 6 Runs 2 Wkts | SA-W: 321/6 (5 runs required, RR: 6.42)

  • Laura Wolvaardt135 (135b)
  • Mieke de Ridder0 (1b)
  • Pooja Vastrakar7-0-54-2
  • Arundhati Reddy8-0-62-1

And that's all we have from a superb second ODI at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. India have taken an unassailable lead in this ODI series. We'll be back at the Chinnaswamy for the final ODI of the series on Sunday, before the caravan moves to Chennai for the Tests and the T20s. But for now, that's all we have. On behalf of my fellow commentator Shashwat, and our scorers Harshith and Chetan, this is Aaditya signing off. Good night!

Harmanpreet Kaur is the player of the match: I think it's a great achievement for women's cricket to have nearly 650 runs in the game. South Africa played really well. I think while batting, we were up to the mark. Initially, when the ball was moving, both the openers didnn't throw their wickets. It made it easier later. We made some errors while bowling, we didn't bowl according to the field. I know it's a batting track, it's not easy to bowl. But if we bowl again on this kind of track, we need to see what we need to do. Actually, in the batters camp, all the batters bowled. Smriti asked me to tell Amol that she's a great bowler. I think that camp helped us a lot. Shafali also did well with the ball. Good to see Smriti get the wicket. I think that [our strike bowler] is always Deepti. She's someone who always takes wickets for the team. Today I told her she was going to take the wicket when Kapp and Laura were batting. I think in the first game, I was batting well, but I got out. I just told myself I wasn't going to give up, I wasn't going to think negatively. I wanted to keep batting and keep trusting my skills. When you're playing international games, I just make sure my mind is positive and fresh, and just trust my skills.

Laura Wolvaardt: I'm just extremely proud of the group to get us to the position we did. At the halfway stage, it was easy to go into our shells with that huge total on the board. Kappie did so well to take the pressure off the group. Not ideal having just the few bowling options today. India nailed the yorkers well at the death, we gave a few too many runs at that point. If it's only a four-run loss, you can look back at each little thing, which makes it a little annoying. We'll look at the positives, this was the best batting performance we've had for a while.

8.38pm: Phew. Now I can catch my breath back. From 67/3 chasing 326, it seemed like there was no hope for South Africa. But Kapp began an assault in the middle overs. She made a superb hundred. Wolvaardt supported her superbly. But then she took centrestage when Kapp got dismissed. Her superb 135 had South Africa in with a shout right until the end. Vastrakar held her nerve in that final over, especially from 6 off 4, where South Africa just couldn't get a hold of Vastrakar's slower ones. To execute those after a few full tosses initially would've taken a lot of character, and Vastrakar showed it.

Rambo: "Both team were similar in batting and bowling. Indian team gave only 9 extras compared to 17 by SA team. That proved the difference."

Amol Muzumdar: It was on of those moments where you let go of your emotions. I think it was a fantastic game. 325 on the board, it was an exciting game to watch, but not from the dugout. Some amazing stuff that she [Vastrakar] did in the last over. We always believe how you come back in a white-ball game is very crucial. She came back and bowled a spectacular last over with those slower ones and those variations. Smriti has nagging me for a while to give her a couple of overs. We made a conscious effort that among our top 6 batters, somebody needs to put their hand up and bowl a few overs. The only message we sent was to hold their nerves and try and use their variations.

49.6
0
Vastrakar to Wolvaardt, no run, Vastrakar wins it for India! Back of the hand slower one again. Short of a length, wide of off stump. Wolvaardt went for the big one over cover but got beaten by the slowness of it. What a night in Bengaluru, what a game, what a heroic fight from Kapp and Wolvaardt!

Wolvaardt on strike. Six for the win. Four for the tie. Can she do it?

49.5
1b
Vastrakar to de Ridder, 1 bye, slower delivery, de Ridders goes for the scoop, gets beaten, but they run across for the bye

Poor game awareness from Shangase there. Will the debutant Meike de Ridder do any better? She had a rather torrid afternoon with the gloves behind the stumps. Can she redeem herself. 6 off 2 needed

49.4
W
Vastrakar to Shangase, OUT, she's looped one straight into Kaur's hands at point and Vastrakar is on a hat-trick! Back of the hand slower ball from Vastrakar, short and wide, Shangase went for a cut shot, made contact high on the bat and it looped up to Kaur who takes it easily

N Shangase c Kaur b Vastrakar 0 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

Nondumiso Shangase walks in. She'll take strike with South Africa needing 6 off 3. You'd think the smart play for Shangase is to just hand it over to Wolvaardt and say "win this for us, skipper"

49.3
W
Vastrakar to de Klerk, OUT, Another twist in the tale! De Klerk looks to finish it off with one blow as she looked to mow this length ball over long-on. Gets foxed a bit by the slower one and doesn't get the timing quite perfect. It falls right into Reddy's hands at long-on, and she makes no mistake.

N de Klerk c Reddy b Vastrakar 28 (28m 22b 2x4 1x6) SR: 127.27

6 off 4...

49.2
4
Vastrakar to de Klerk, FOUR, edged for four! Another high full toss from Vastrakar, de Klerk flashes at it outside off, and it goes past short third off the outside edge for a massive boundary in the context of this game

10 off 5...

49.1
1
Vastrakar to Wolvaardt, 1 run, high full toss, Wolvaardt can only bunt it away to deep midwicket. Her timing deserts her on that occasion

South Africa need 11 off the last over to pull off a world record chase. What a game this has been. We go right down to the wire. Vastrakar will bowl the final one. Wolvaardt on strike.

SA Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st14T BritsL Wolvaardt
2nd40A BoschL Wolvaardt
3rd13S LuusL Wolvaardt
4th184M KappL Wolvaardt
5th69L WolvaardtN de Klerk
6th0L WolvaardtN Shangase
7th1M de RidderL Wolvaardt