Proteas Women's allrounder Chloe Tryon was in a belligerent mood during the warm-up match against New Zealand, striking an undefeated 61 not out off only 26 balls, 3x4, 6x6.
The Proteas’ ICC T20 Women’s World Cup campaign begins in earnest on Saturday. The preliminaries and official warm-up matches have been completed.
The time for experimentation is done. It’s now down to the real business, where Laura Wolvaardt’s team needs to play with certainty and freedom, unimpeded by previous failures in successive T20 World Cup finals.
The batting remains more formidable than the bowling, even with the added extra pace of the returning Shabnim Ismail, as the last-over defeat to defending T20 world champions New Zealand in the final warm-up game on Tuesday displayed.
Captain Wolvaardt was once again in another league, striking 43 off 27 balls at an exceptional rate of 159.25, while those at the crease with her — Suné Luus (SR 44.44) and Dané van Niekerk (33.33) — could not get their engines started.
