De Klerk upstages Ghosh as South Africa win thriller

Nadine de Klerk's career-best 84* trumped Richa Ghosh's counterpunching 94 as South Africa emerged victorious in the Women's World Cup's first thriller. South Africa completed the fifth-highest successful chase in World Cups and their eight highest in women's ODIs in a match where the advantage changed sides several times and overflowed with tension.

Put into bat, India started well when they scored 55 in the powerplay before South Africa stormed through the next 16 overs and reduced India to 102 for 6. Ghosh and Amanjot Kaur put on 51 for the seventh wicket before Ghosh and Sneh Rana, who produced a cameo of 33 from 24 balls took India to a competitive total. In their last 10 overs, India scored 98 runs which may have knocked the wind out of South Africa's sails.