Australia have been shocked by South Africa for a second time in as many weeks, with 5 dropped catches and a disastrous batting collapse costing the hosts throughout a rain-affected girls’s ODI loss.
4 days after an elbow damage compelled her to retire damage within the collection opener, Marizanne Kapp starred with bat and ball to assist the Proteas to their first-ever ODI defeat of Australia.
Wednesday’s 84-run loss at North Sydney Oval, the place Australia had not misplaced an ODI since 2009, sends the three-match collection to a decider on the identical venue this Saturday.
Taking part in with hamstring tightness that compelled her out of the sphere, Ash Gardner (35) partnered with Kim Garth (42 not out) on a rescue mission that gave the hosts hope, after they fell to 8-71 chasing a DRS-adjusted 234 for victory.
However not even the all-rounders’ 77-run partnership — the very best ninth-wicket partnership in girls’s ODI historical past — may pull Australia again from their disastrous begin with the bat as they had been bundled out for 149.
When Megan Schutt (1) was trapped lbw within the thirtieth over of the match condensed to 45 overs apiece by rain, the Proteas had been house.
Dropped twice, Kapp (75) made the Australians pay for his or her sloppy fielding on her solution to a second half-century from two begins this ODI collection.
Kapp hoisted the hosts to 6-229 on the finish of 45 overs with the Proteas, who gained the second of three T20Is final month, managing simply 105 from 50 overs within the first ODI.
Within the fifth over of Australia’s chase, Kapp (3-12) set a staggering batting collapse in movement by dispatching of captain Alyssa Healy (4) and Beth Mooney (0) within the house of three deliveries.
Swinging the ball with ease, Kapp breezed by way of center stump to dismiss the talismanic Mooney, earlier than she trapped Phoebe Litchfield (14) lbw because the younger gun tried a block.
The ICC’s top-ranked ODI facet discovered themselves in strife at 3-34.
Kapp’s teammates quickly joined in on the carnage with debutant fast Ayanda Hlubi (2-41) dismissing Ellyse Perry (2) caught behind because the veteran tried to bat by way of a abdomen bug.
Hlubi had a second ODI wicket when Georgia Wareham chopped on and have become the second of three Australians to go with out scoring.
Nadine de Klerk took 2-1 from her first over, first dispatching of Tahlia McGrath (22) — the one batter who had made a begin at that time — caught behind.
When Alana King chipped de Klerk to level, Australia had been 8-71 and appeared in peril of undercutting their lowest-ever complete in an ODI — 77 — made in 1993 and 2004.
Gardner and Garth helped the hosts save face and was ably assisted by the Proteas’ choice to rotate the harmful Kapp out of the assault.
However the Proteas closed in on a well-known win when Gardner clipped Eliz-Mari Marx (2-22) to wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta.
Earlier, King dropped Kapp on 37 off her personal bowling earlier than Healy fumbled the veteran all-rounder aground on 45 after Kim Garth’s ball was edged proper to her.
The pair of drops got here after Perry missed Anneke Bosch on 1 within the deep, with the South African quantity three happening to revitalise the Proteas from 1-0 after three balls so as to add 43 to her rating.
Wareham then dropped Sune Luus (19) so as to add to the Australians’ frustrations in slippery circumstances.
Apparently resistant to the catching woes, Annabel Sutherland caught each Bosch and Luus at lengthy on from Gardner’s bowling (2-31) earlier than they might construct an excessive amount of on their begins.
King got here up with a second drop at quick advantageous leg within the penultimate over, spilling Chloe Tryon (37 not out), who went on so as to add three extra boundaries and bolster South Africa’s rating.
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