FILE PHOTO: Annerie Dercksen plays a square drive against Pakistan in a previous T20 encounter in Benoni.
It may not have been a perfect performance against Pakistan at Edgbaston on Wednesday evening, but ultimately, the Proteas Women got the job done and are on the T20 World Cup scoreboard.
At least, that’s according to all-rounder Annerie Dercksen, who showed she could potentially be the answer to the long-standing No. 3 problem with her first T20 World Cup half-century.
The Proteas did many things wrong — with both ball and bat — which saw them scrape home by two wickets in a match they should have won much more comfortably. They have, though, moved off the basement of the table and into third position, and can now look ODI world champions India in the eye on Saturday with greater confidence.
“I said to the team, I'm probably going to die 30 years before I should, because we have a knack of doing this. But yeah, I think the main thing is that we ended up on the right side,” Dercksen said after the two-wicket victory.
