South Africa's Tazmin Brits watches the ball after playing a shot during the final T20 women's World Cup cricket match between South Africa and Australia at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town The Proteas face a nervous wait to see if they will progress to the semi-finals of the Women’s T20 World Cup on Tuesday. Seen here: Proteas opener Tazmin Brits. Picture: Marco Longari/AFP
The Proteas Women have won convincingly in three of their four Women’s T20 World Cup group games, but that has still meant South Africa has a nervous wait to see if they will progress to the semi-finals of the competition.
The Proteas thumped Bangladesh by seven wickets on Saturday to move to six points and briefly top Group B.
They were later overtaken by England who smashed Scotland by 10 wickets on Sunday.
England are now ahead on net-run rate but level on points with the Proteas. England, however, still have their fourth and final group game to play.
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The Proteas Women gave it their all in training, gearing up for today’s battle with Bangladesh.
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That will be against the West Indies on Tuesday. The Windies are on four points, and have a better net run-rate than South Africa. It means, should the Windies beat England - the Proteas will be heading home.
England though, will be heavy favourites for their clash against the Windies. But, stranger things have happened in cricket, and England could well field a team that is not their strongest for the match that won’t mean all that much to them since they’ve already booked their last four spot.
Key Proteas batter and opener Tazmin Brits scored 42 in her side’s chase of 107 for victory against Bangladesh, and said afterwards her plan was to try and score quickly in case run-rate could decide which team makes the semis.
“I'm trying to be aggressive in the power play, whether we need a net run rate or we need a win,” said Brits.
“But at the end of the day, we needed to win the game, and I think we managed to get that right, which is, of course, the first box we got a tick.
“And from now on, we just have to wait for the net run rate in the England and West Indies to play and see what happens from there.”
In the meantime, the Proteas will simply have to hurry up and wait before they learn their T20 World Cup fate.