Recent Match
ICC Womens T20 World Cup, 2024, Final, Dubai, Oct 20th, 2024

New Zealand Women

(19.6 ov) 158/5

South Africa Women

(19.6 ov) 126/9

Complete New Zealand Women won by 32 runs

Player of Match: Amelia Kerr

Change of bat for Amelia Kerr as her sister Jess comes out with a drink too.
14.6
de Klerk to Amelia Kerr, no run
14.5
de Klerk to Amelia Kerr, FOUR, to long-off
A free-hit now for Amelia Kerr.
14.5
de Klerk to Halliday, no ball, 1 run, now a back foot no-ball. Oh dear. The back leg cuts the return crease and that's not allowed.
14.4
de Klerk to Halliday, FOUR, this time Halliday stays back and finds the gap.
14.3
de Klerk to Halliday, no run, good change-up. Saw Halliday coming down, dragged it short and wide outside off, Halliday reaches for it to cut, but straight to the fielder at backward point
14.2
de Klerk to Amelia Kerr, 1 run, to sweeper cover
14.1
de Klerk to Amelia Kerr, 2 runs, to deep mid-wicket
Nadine de Klerk [1.0-0-4-1] is back into the attack
The reason behind Luus who turned into an offspinner from Legspin recently in her own words: Legspin is very much a confidence game, and I think once you lose that confidence, it's very hard to get it back. I was really struggling with that and ultimately didn't enjoy it as much as I did previously. It was obviously a hard decision for me to just put that on hold and focus on the things that bring me joy and make me excited to get onto the park again. I went through a couple of coaches that were trying to change my action and trying to do this and trying to do that. In trying to do all of those things, I kind of lost what made my legspin special. The harder I tried, the more I failed. That really takes a hard knock not just on your confidence in playing cricket, but your self-confidence as well. Obviously, I wanted to contribute in all facets of the game. That's something I had really missed, just the feeling of bowling. I knew I didn't really want to come back as a legspinner. So I thought of what could really help the team and what I can bring that will contribute something meaningful. We kind of just played around with it in the nets after a discussion I had with our new head coach Dillon [du Preez]. I said, 'Just watch me in the nets and if you think that it's something that has potential, let me know and we can actually start working on it. But if you think I'm terrible, also let me know, then I should stop bowling. He luckily saw something in it. And I think we just started playing around, trying to bowl more overs at the nets and training and stuff. I don't think the idea was for me to bowl in India yet. I don't think I was very much ready. But obviously some circumstances led me to bowling a couple of overs.
13.6
Luus to Halliday, FOUR, consecutive fours.
13.5
Luus to Halliday, FOUR, Halliday is providing the impetus. She goes deep in her crease, this is tossed up on middle, slogsweep and wide of Brits at deep mid-wicket, she runs and dives but the ball wins
13.4
Luus to Amelia Kerr, 1 run, to long-on
13.3
Luus to Halliday, 1 run, to long-on
13.2
Luus to Halliday, no run
13.1
Luus to Halliday, 2 runs, good running. It's tossed up and drifting into the pads, Halliday comes down the track to flick between deep mid-wicket and long-on, placed perfectly and they come back for two
12.6
Mlaba to Halliday, 1 run, to deep mid-wicket
12.5
Mlaba to Amelia Kerr, 1 run, slower and on a good length outside off, turns away, Amelia Kerr goes on the back foot to punch it in front of long-on for one
12.4
Mlaba to Halliday, 1 run, to mid-wicket