Women's World Cup: South Africa beat Pakistan by 150 runs under DLS rule

Colombo, October 21 (IANS). The match played between South Africa and Pakistan at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday was affected by rain. South Africa defeated Pakistan by 150 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis regime. Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl first. Due to rain, the first match was decided at 40-40 overs. South Africa scored 312 runs with the loss of 9 wickets in 40 overs. The first hit for South Africa was in the form of Tanzeem Britts on the score of 5. After this, captain Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus made a strong partnership of 118 runs for the second wicket. Luce was out after scoring 61 runs off 59 balls. After this, Wolvaardt made a partnership of 64 runs with Marijne Kapp for the fourth wicket. Wolvaardt was out for the fourth wicket after scoring 90 runs in 82 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 10 fours. Marijne Kapp remained unbeaten after scoring 68 runs off 43 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 6 fours. Nadine de Klerk played an innings of 41 runs in 16 balls. Based on these 4 innings, South Africa scored 312 runs for 9 wickets. For Pakistan, Sadia Iqbal took 3 wickets for 63 runs in 8 innings, Nashra Sandhu took 3 wickets for 45 runs in 8 innings, and Fatima Sana took 1 wicket for 69 runs in 8 innings. Pakistan were given the target of 313 runs. Pakistan’s innings was also badly affected due to rain. Under the DLS rule, the umpires gave Pakistan a target of 234 in 20 overs. Pakistan managed to score 83 runs for the loss of 7 wickets and lost the match by a huge margin of 150 runs. Marijne Kapp took 3 wickets for South Africa. He was named player of the match. With this victory, South Africa moved up to first place in the standings. South Africa has 10 points from 6 matches with 5 wins and 1 loss. At the same time, Pakistan is at the bottom of the standings. Pakistan lost 4 of its 6 matches. 2 matches were completely washed out due to rain. Pakistan got 2 (1+1) points from both the canceled matches. –IANS PAK Share this story Tags