http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Women's World Cup Qualifier - 3rd Place Play-off: South Africa v Sri Lanka – Match Update
South Africa 192 v Sri Lanka 193 - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 Women won by 3 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
Sri Lanka secured the 3rd Place Play-off after beating rivals South Africa by three wickets in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s World Cup Qualifier on Saturday, November 26, 2011 at Narayanganj Osmani Stadium, Fatullah, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747.
The two teams failed to reach the final of the qualifier as they were the heavyweights in the group stages of the tournament.
The match was pitched to be high scoring encounter as both sides carried phenomenal batters in their arsenal and had bowlers capable of incinerating any batting line-up on a given day.
After winning the toss, South Africa chose to bat first on a batting wickets as they aimed to post a daunting total on the board to give Sri Lanka a run for their money.
The tournament’s best opening duo for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Trisha-Chetty-c94414 came out to bat for their side, but Chetty who had been in astounding form almost throughout the tournament was dismissed on five runs.
South African fans were relying on Chetty to give a match winning performance in the crucial encounter, however, the 23-year-old KwaZulu-Natal batswomen was neutralized which actually put the Proteas in a spot of bother early on.
Nonetheless, the demise of Chetty brought star performer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dane-van-Niekerk-c52216 on the crease as the 18-year-old batswomen sought to craft a commendable partnership with Fritz.
The duo clobbered 39 runs together in the second-wicket partnership, however, Sri Lankan came back in the game by grabbing the wicket of Dane who fell in the 13th over after amassing 27 runs. At the time of her demise, South African had managed
to post 56 runs on the board.
While Fritz exhibited superb form, South Africa’s middle-order crumbled in front of the flamboyant Sri Lankan bowling. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mignon-du-Preez-c76274 failed to give a commendable show as they departed after scoring 14 and four runs.
However, it was the seventh-wicket partnership between Fritz and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunette-Loubser-c91828 that helped South Africa post a respectable total on the board as the duo amassed 53 runs together.
In the end the Proteas gave Sri Lanka a target of 193 runs to win the game.
Chasing this total was not a joyride for the Lankans as they were given a tough resistance by the South African bowlers who made it extremely difficult for the batting side to reach the required tally.
Nonetheless, in the end Sri Lanka won the game in 49.4 over for the loss of seven wickets. From Sri Lanka, Chamari Atapattu and Yasoda Mendis were the highest scorers from their team with 60 and 47 runs.
Sri Lanka’s Sandamali Dolawatte was named as the Player of the Match for grabbing three wickets and playing unbeaten knock of 29 runs.
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