New Zealand beat South Africa by 32 runs within the ultimate of Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024.© X/@WHITE_FERNS
New Zealand produced a scientific efficiency in a high-stakes ultimate to beat South Africa by 32 runs and win their maiden Girls’s T20 World Cup title in Dubai on Sunday. It turned out to be a historic Sunday for New Zealand cricket because the White Ferns bought their fingers on the ICC trophy hours after the lads recorded their first Check win in India after 36 years. South Africa, enjoying their second successive ultimate, despatched New Zealand in to bat and the Sophie Devine-led facet thrived beneath strain to put up an above par 158 for 5 on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium.
Amelia Kerr collected 43 off 38 balls whereas Brooke Halliday made an impactful 38 off 28 balls to push New Zealand past 150 in what has been a low scoring event. South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt (33 off 27) took her staff to 47 for no loss within the powerplay earlier than New Zealand bowlers had been in a position to stifle the opposition.
South Africa couldn’t maintain with the scoring fee and ended with 126 for 9 in 20 overs. Kerr starred along with her leg-spin as nicely, ending with three wickets for twenty-four runs in 4 overs.
It was a exceptional change of fortunes for New Zealand, who had come into the event with the luggage of 10 losses in a row. They had been the perfect bowling unit within the competitors by a good distance and on Sunday, improved their batting by a number of notches. There was no getting back from South Africa after they misplaced their gutsy chief Wolvaardt within the tenth over. Kerr bought the prized wicket as Wolvaardt, in her try and speed up the scoring fee, discovered Suzie Bates at cowl.
When the hero of the semifinal, Anneke Bosch, perished 5 balls later, the writing was on the wall. South Africa’s untested middle-order couldn’t reply to the strain put by the New Zealand bowlers.
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