Proteas skipper stars in Sri Lanka women's first loss in South Africa

South Africa women’s captain, Dané van Niekerk took three wickets and scored an unbeaten 71 runs to lead her side to an emphatic, seven-wicket victory in the opening fixture of their three-match series against Sri Lanka at PPC Newlands on Friday.

The skipper’s spell of 3/12 in four overs along with Masabata Klaas’ 2/22 helped restrict the opposition to 90/8 at the end of their innings after Chamari Attapaththu won the toss and elected to bat first. Hasini Perera and Imalka Mendis were the only pair who reached double figures, top scoring with 27 and 25 runs respectively.

Van Niekerk took the spotlight again in South Africa’s reply, making even more of a case for herself as an opening batter. She smashed 13 fours in her 55-ball knock as the hosts cantered to victory with 34 balls to spare.

The second match will take place at the Bidvest Wanderers this Sunday, 03 February. Play starts at 09:45 (SAST) with the build-up on SuperSport 2 starting at 09:30.

Batters	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Hasini Madushika c Lara Goodall b Dane van Niekerk	27	41	3	0	65.85
Anushka Sanjeewani WKT c Tumi Sekhukhune b Masabata Klaas	9	9	2	0	100.00
Chamari Athapaththu CPT b Dane van Niekerk	7	16	0	0	43.75
Shashikala Siriwardana c Shabnim Ismail b Dane van Niekerk	6	9	0	0	66.66
Nilakshi Damayanthi b Tumi Sekhukhune	2	5	0	0	40.00
Imalka Mendis NOT OUT	25	24	2	0	104.16
Oshadhi Ranasinghe run out Tazmin Brits	5	7	0	0	71.42
Umesha Thimashini b Masabata Klaas	3	6	0	0	50.00
Udeshika Prabodani run out Faye Tunnicliffe	0	3	0	0	0.00
Inoka Ranaweera NOT OUT	2	2	0	0	100.00
Achini Kulasuriya	–	–	–	–	–
Extras (nb 2, b 2)	4
Total (8 wickets, 20 overs)	90

Fall of wickets
20-1 (A Sanjeewani, 3.5 ov), 44-2 (H Madushika, 10.1 ov), 50-3 (S Siriwardana, 12.2 ov), 51-4 (C Athapaththu, 12.6 ov), 53-5 (N Damayanthi, 13.3 ov), 67-6 (O Ranasinghe, 16.2 ov), 75-7 (U Thimashini, 17.5 ov), 83-8 (U Prabodani, 19.2 ov)

Bowlers	O	R	W	Econ
Marizanne Kapp	4	18	0	4.50
Shabnim Ismail	4	18	0	4.50
Masabata Klaas	4	22	2	5.50
Dane van Niekerk	4	12	3	3.00
Tumi Sekhukhune	4	18	1	4.50

Batters	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Dane van Niekerk CPT NOT OUT	71	55	13	0	129.09
Tazmin Brits c Imalka Mendis b Achini Kulasuriya	10	11	2	0	90.90
Marizanne Kapp c Udeshika Prabodani b Nilakshi Damayanthi	5	8	0	0	62.50
Mignon du Preez b Inoka Ranaweera	4	4	1	0	100.00
Lara Goodall NOT OUT	3	8	0	0	37.50
Shabnim Ismail	–	–	–	–	–
Saarah Smith	–	–	–	–	–
Tumi Sekhukhune	–	–	–	–	–
Faye Tunnicliffe WKT	–	–	–	–	–
Masabata Klaas	–	–	–	–	–
Nadine de Klerk	–	–	–	–	–
Extras (w 1)	1
Total (3 wickets, 14.2 overs)	94

Fall of wickets
25-1 (T Brits, 3.5 ov), 44-2 (M Kapp, 7.6 ov), 75-3 (M du Preez, 10.6 ov)

Bowlers	O	R	W	Econ
Udeshika Prabodani	2.2	17	0	7.28
Achini Kulasuriya	3	14	1	4.66
Oshadhi Ranasinghe	3	18	0	6.00
Nilakshi Damayanthi	2	14	1	7.00
Inoka Ranaweera	2	22	1	11.00
Shashikala Siriwardana	2	9	0	4.50

Proteas skipper stars in Sri Lanka women’s first loss in South Africa

Sri Lanka Batting

South Africa Bowling

South Africa Batting

Sri Lanka Bowling

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