Vastrakar wins it for India! Back of the hand slower one again. Short of a length, wide of off stump. Wolvaardt went for the big one over cover but got beaten by the slowness of it. What a night in Bengaluru, what a game, what a heroic fight from Kapp and Wolvaardt!
IND Women vs SA Women, 2nd ODI at Bengaluru, IND v SA [W], Jun 19 2024 - Match Result
This is the highest match aggregate (646) involving IND Women & SA Women in WODIs
IND Women's 4-run win against SA Women is their smallest margin of victory in terms of runs in WODIs, beating 5-run win against NZ Women
And that's all we have from a superb second ODI at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. India have taken an unassailable lead in this ODI series. We'll be back at the Chinnaswamy for the final ODI of the series on Sunday, before the caravan moves to Chennai for the Tests and the T20s. But for now, that's all we have. On behalf of my fellow commentator Shashwat, and our scorers Harshith and Chetan, this is Aaditya signing off. Good night!
Harmanpreet Kaur is the player of the match: I think it's a great achievement for women's cricket to have nearly 650 runs in the game. South Africa played really well. I think while batting, we were up to the mark. Initially, when the ball was moving, both the openers didnn't throw their wickets. It made it easier later. We made some errors while bowling, we didn't bowl according to the field. I know it's a batting track, it's not easy to bowl. But if we bowl again on this kind of track, we need to see what we need to do. Actually, in the batters camp, all the batters bowled. Smriti asked me to tell Amol that she's a great bowler. I think that camp helped us a lot. Shafali also did well with the ball. Good to see Smriti get the wicket. I think that [our strike bowler] is always Deepti. She's someone who always takes wickets for the team. Today I told her she was going to take the wicket when Kapp and Laura were batting. I think in the first game, I was batting well, but I got out. I just told myself I wasn't going to give up, I wasn't going to think negatively. I wanted to keep batting and keep trusting my skills. When you're playing international games, I just make sure my mind is positive and fresh, and just trust my skills.
Laura Wolvaardt: I'm just extremely proud of the group to get us to the position we did. At the halfway stage, it was easy to go into our shells with that huge total on the board. Kappie did so well to take the pressure off the group. Not ideal having just the few bowling options today. India nailed the yorkers well at the death, we gave a few too many runs at that point. If it's only a four-run loss, you can look back at each little thing, which makes it a little annoying. We'll look at the positives, this was the best batting performance we've had for a while.
8.38pm: Phew. Now I can catch my breath back. From 67/3 chasing 326, it seemed like there was no hope for South Africa. But Kapp began an assault in the middle overs. She made a superb hundred. Wolvaardt supported her superbly. But then she took centrestage when Kapp got dismissed. Her superb 135 had South Africa in with a shout right until the end. Vastrakar held her nerve in that final over, especially from 6 off 4, where South Africa just couldn't get a hold of Vastrakar's slower ones. To execute those after a few full tosses initially would've taken a lot of character, and Vastrakar showed it.
Rambo: "Both team were similar in batting and bowling. Indian team gave only 9 extras compared to 17 by SA team. That proved the difference."
Amol Muzumdar: It was on of those moments where you let go of your emotions. I think it was a fantastic game. 325 on the board, it was an exciting game to watch, but not from the dugout. Some amazing stuff that she [Vastrakar] did in the last over. We always believe how you come back in a white-ball game is very crucial. She came back and bowled a spectacular last over with those slower ones and those variations. Smriti has nagging me for a while to give her a couple of overs. We made a conscious effort that among our top 6 batters, somebody needs to put their hand up and bowl a few overs. The only message we sent was to hold their nerves and try and use their variations.
Wolvaardt on strike. Six for the win. Four for the tie. Can she do it?
slower delivery, de Ridders goes for the scoop, gets beaten, but they run across for the bye
Poor game awareness from Shangase there. Will the debutant Meike de Ridder do any better? She had a rather torrid afternoon with the gloves behind the stumps. Can she redeem herself. 6 off 2 needed
she's looped one straight into Kaur's hands at point and Vastrakar is on a hat-trick! Back of the hand slower ball from Vastrakar, short and wide, Shangase went for a cut shot, made contact high on the bat and it looped up to Kaur who takes it easily
Nondumiso Shangase walks in. She'll take strike with South Africa needing 6 off 3. You'd think the smart play for Shangase is to just hand it over to Wolvaardt and say "win this for us, skipper"
Another twist in the tale! De Klerk looks to finish it off with one blow as she looked to mow this length ball over long-on. Gets foxed a bit by the slower one and doesn't get the timing quite perfect. It falls right into Reddy's hands at long-on, and she makes no mistake.
6 off 4...
edged for four! Another high full toss from Vastrakar, de Klerk flashes at it outside off, and it goes past short third off the outside edge for a massive boundary in the context of this game
10 off 5...
high full toss, Wolvaardt can only bunt it away to deep midwicket. Her timing deserts her on that occasion
South Africa need 11 off the last over to pull off a world record chase. What a game this has been. We go right down to the wire. Vastrakar will bowl the final one. Wolvaardt on strike.
Big six from de Klerk! What a moment in this contest. Reddy misses the yorker. It's a shin-high full toss. De Klerk gets low and sweeps it over square leg for a maximum!
strays down leg again with another attempted slower yorker. De Klerk goes for a sweep as usual but misses it. Kaur is furious at the wide call saying it hit de Klerk's pad on the way through to Ghosh
good yorker again, Wolvaardt can only dig it out to deep midwicket for another single
low full toss, de Klerk looks for a slog sweep again, gets a thick inside edge to backward square leg and puts Wolvaardt back in strike
executes the yorker nicely, dips a touch on Wolvaardt, she digs it out to long-on
full toss on off stump, de Klerk lets out a groan after mistiming it towards deep midwicket
this time it's the same ball attempted, but further down leg. Wide given this time
Reddy starts with a yorker down leg, de Klerk went down leg and gave herself room, the ball just went past her front leg, the umpire doesn't signal a wide
A 15-run over isn't ideal at this stage. South Africa need 23 off 2 overs. All the pressure is on India. The way Wolvaardt has taken over and taken centrestage after Kapp's wicket has been quite incredible.
What a shot! Poor ball from Vastrakar, right in the slot, and Wolvaardt lofts it straight down the ground
full and straight, de Klerk goes for the big slog, gets a massive inside edge, which Ghosh does well to stop diving to her left
wide yorker, executed nicely, driven to mid-off
important boundary! Right in the slot from Vastrakar, Wolvaardt drags it square on the legside. Her bottom hand came off the bat, but the timing was still enough
knee high full toss, Wolvaardt bunts it back down the ground, but her timing deserts her for once. Anyway, they get two, because the ball went pretty straight and Hemalatha was rather wide at long-on
nails the yorker on leg stump, de Klerk gets an inside edge on to her pad after which it dribbles away into the offside. Wolvaardt's back in strike now
Vastrakar is on for the 48th
Firoz: "I reckon, the chasing side losing after 2 hundreds is rarer than the side that batted first losing after 2 batsmen scoring hundreds" --- Well Firoz, it's never happened in women's cricket before, either chasing or batting first, that a side has lost after having two centurions in a game. So either way, we'll witness a bit of history here.
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M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | |
Toss | South Africa Women, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2024 |
Player Of The Match | |
Series result | India Women led the 3-match series 2-0 |
Match number | WODI no. 1390 |
Hours of play (local time) | 13.30 start, First Session 13.30-16.40, Interval 16.40-17.10, Second Session 17.10-20.20 |
Match days | 19 June 2024 - daynight (50-over match) |
WODI debut | |
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Match Referee | |
Points | India Women 2, South Africa Women 0 |