Women's T20 World Cup: Hosts South Africa boost hopes with thrashing of New Zealand

Hosts South Africa revived their T20 World Cup hopes with a thumping 65-run triumph implicit New Zealand successful Paarl.

South Africa reached 132-6 from their 20 overs, helped by a gutsy 40 from 34 balls by Chloe Tryon.

The White Ferns batting line-up crumbled successful reply arsenic they were bowled retired for conscionable 67 successful the 19th over.

Nonkululeko Mlaba was the prime of the South Africa bowlers, taking 3-10, with lone 3 New Zealand players making treble figures.

A 2nd successive dense nonaccomplishment leaves New Zealand bottommost of Group 1 with a mediocre nett run-rate, meaning they request to bushed Sri Lanka and Bangladesh successful their remaining matches by immense margins to person immoderate accidental of reaching the past four.

After winning the flip and choosing to bat the hosts made a mediocre start, losing opener Tazmin Brits for 1 disconnected the bowling of Eden Carson successful the archetypal over.

Lea Tahuhu past took the cardinal wickets of Laura Wolvaardt for 13 and Marizanne Kapp for 9 either broadside of skipper Sane Luus being tally retired for 22 to permission the Proteas reeling connected 55-4.

However, a battling 47-run concern for the sixth wicket betwixt Tyron and Nadine de Klerk, who scored 28 not retired from 26 balls, lifted them up to a competitory score.

New Zealand mislaid opener Bernadine Bezuidenhout for a duck from the 2nd shot of their reply and ne'er recovered, with wickets falling often and cheaply.

Captain Sophie Devine, who usually opens but was dropped down to five, top-scored with 16 and her dismissal ended immoderate faint hopes of a New Zealand victory.

New Zealand are adjacent successful enactment against Bangladesh astatine Newlands successful Cape Town connected Friday. South Africa look holders Australia successful Gqeberha the pursuing day.

'It's embarrassing' - reaction

New Zealand skipper Suzie Bates: "Firstly, recognition has to spell to South Africa. They wholly outplayed us. To beryllium honest, it's embarrassing.

"We've trained hard, enactment successful each the enactment down the scenes and past to travel retired and execute similar that 2 games successful a enactment is simply not bully capable successful planetary cricket.

"It was a competitory people but we ever person the content that we tin pursuit down immoderate score. We're going to person immoderate looks successful the reflector and immoderate harsh discussions."

South Africa skipper Sune Luus: "The spinners did a superb job. The seamers supported them arsenic good and finished the occupation off. It was a superb bowling show by the full team.

"Chloe Tryon - what a legend. To travel backmost contiguous and amusement her people was perfectly brilliant."

Player of the match, South Africa's Chloe Tryon: "After the archetypal match, we knew what needed to come. We knew it was bash oregon dice from present connected in. we knew however important this crippled was.

"We conscionable went backmost to the basics, worked successful partnerships and everything worked well."