Australia will face South Africa within the girls’s T20 World Cup closing after the hosts earned an emotional and dramatic victory over England by six runs in an exciting last-four encounter in Cape City.
The Proteas reached their first-ever closing by proscribing England within the dying overs at Newlands on Friday with tempo bowlers Shabnim Ismail and Ayabonga Khaka proving their match-winners.
Friday’s match ended with scenes of delirium amongst Sune Luus’s staff as they arrange a dream tie with Meg Lanning’s all-conquering reigning champions in Sunday’s closing on the similar venue.
It was simply as shut a contest as Australia’s victory by 5 runs over India within the first semi-final on the similar venue 24 hours earlier.
Two terrific knocks from South African openers Laura Wolvaardt (53 off 44 balls) and Tazmin Brits (68 off 55) did most to propel the Proteas to a difficult complete of 4-164 after they elected to bat first.
However the highly effective England facet had regarded properly on the way in which to reaching the goal as they powered to 3-132 with slightly below 4 overs to go.
However when Nadine de Klerk dismissed the important thing hitter Nat Sciver-Brunt for 40, the sport took a dramatic shift.
In her closing over, the 18th of the innings, Khaka (4-29) snaffled three wickets, eliminating Amy Jones, Sophie Ecclestone and Katherine Sciver-Brunt, to fully remodel the sport.
And with 13 wanted off the final six balls, Ismail (3-27) stepped up nervelessly, bowling England’s final hope, captain Heather Knight, for 31 to make sure the Proteas reached their first world closing in girls’s cricket.
