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Delhi: R of Colombo on Tuesday. In the 22nd match of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 played at Premadasa Stadium, South Africa defeated Pakistan by 150 runs with the help of Duckworth Lewis rule (DLS). With this, the Proteas team occupied the first position in the points table of the current tournament with 10 points. They left behind Australia and England, who have 9 points each.

With this defeat, Pakistan became the second team to be eliminated from the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025, before which Bangladesh had been eliminated.

For your information, let us tell you that this match was completely affected by rain, where Barkha disrupted the match several times.

In the match, South Africa, batting first, scored 312 runs for 9 wickets in 40 overs. After this, the target was changed due to rain and Pakistan got the revised target of 234 runs in 20 overs, but the team could not achieve it. Pakistan scored 83 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match.

South Africa’s strong batting

South Africa’s innings may have had a bad start when Tajmin Britts was out for a duck, but after that captain Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus took over the innings. Together they made an important partnership of 118 runs for the second wicket.

Wolvaardt played a brilliant inning of 90 runs in 82 balls, which included 10 fours and 2 sixes. She remained only 10 runs away from the 10th century of her ODI career.

Luce and Cap hold the crease

Sune Luus also batted brilliantly and scored 61 runs in 59 balls. His innings included 8 fours and 2 sixes. This was the 17th half-century of his ODI career.

After this, experienced all-rounder Marijan Cap batted brilliantly and scored unbeaten 68 runs on 43 balls. Cap’s innings included 6 fours and 3 sixes. At the same time, Nadine de Klerk finally took the team’s score beyond 300 by scoring 41 runs in 16 balls.

Pakistan could not chase the target

The match was interrupted several times due to rain and ultimately Pakistan got a new target of 234 runs in 20 overs. However, Pakistani batsmen could not stand against the South African bowlers and the team fell far behind the target. In this way, South Africa achieved a big victory of 150 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis-Rule (DLS) rule. Sidra Nawaz (22) and Natalia Parvez (20) played the most innings for Pakistan, while in bowling, Saadi Iqbal and Nashra Sandhu took 3-3 wickets for Pakistan. Apart from him, captain Fatima Sana took 1 wicket.

South Africa’s brilliant bowling

For South Africa, Cap first made an important contribution with the bat and then took 3 wickets with the ball. For this he was awarded the title of Player of the Match. Apart from him, N Shangise took 2 wickets in his name, while N Khaka got 1 success.