T20 Women’s World Cup 2024: New Zealand became the new world champion of T20, defeating South Africa in the final. NZ made it to the finals of the first and second T20 World Cups played in 2009 and 2010 but had to face defeat both times. After 14 years, this team reached the final again and this time the team took a rest only after winning the title.
New Zealand, captained by Sophie Devine, has won the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup title for the first time. In the final played on Sunday 20 October in Dubai, New Zealand defeated South Africa by 32 runs to capture the championship. With this, its wait of 15 years also ended.
Also, New Zealand became the first team to win the World Cup in T20 or ODI. Earlier, no New Zealand team had won any of these World Cups in senior men’s or women’s cricket. On the other hand, South Africa suffered a heartbreak in the World Cup final for the second consecutive year.
Great Sunday for New Zealand in T20 Women’s World Cup 2024
Sunday, October 20, started in a great way for New Zealand cricket and ended in an even better way. First, New Zealand’s men’s team won a Test match in India after a long wait of about 36 years. Tom Latham’s team defeated India by 8 wickets in the Bengaluru Test. After this, the Kiwi women’s team in Dubai ended their country’s long wait for the World Cup title.
On the other hand, South African cricket had to face a heartbreaking defeat in the final for the second time in 4 months. Earlier in June, South Africa lost to Team India in the final of the Men’s T20 World Cup.
Excellent innings by Amelia-Halliday in the final of T20 Women’s World Cup 2024
New Zealand’s team lost the toss but despite this, batting first, they scored a strong score of 158 runs. After the first wicket fell in the second over itself, Suzie Bates and Amelia Carr handled the innings. Here Bates and captain Sophie Devine returned to the pavilion in quick succession but Brooke Halliday (38), who came in their place, rained boundaries.
There was a great partnership of 57 runs between Amelia (43) and Halliday. After this, Amelia and Maddie Green collected some boundaries in the last overs and took the team to this score for the loss of 5 wickets, which was very strong for the final.
In the final of T20 Women’s World Cup 2024, South African batting faltered after a fast start
The South African team, which won by batting aggressively while chasing against defending champion Australia in the semi-finals, adopted the same approach this time too. Especially captain Laura Woolwart (33) thrashed the Kiwi bowlers. The team did not lose any wickets in the powerplay but after this, there was a fall of wickets.
The first wicket fell in the seventh over and then in the 10th over Amelia Kerr (3/24) took the wickets of Woolwart and Anneka Bosch. Then Marijn Kapp and Nadine de Klerk also got out on consecutive balls and 5 wickets fell in 13 overs.
From here all eyes were on Sune Lees and Chloe Tryon and both of them raised the hopes of the team by making a small partnership but it was not enough. Like Amelia, Brooke Halliday also showed amazing batting after bowling and broke the partnership by dismissing Lees. From here South Africa’s defeat was certain and finally, the team could score only 126 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. In this way, for the second consecutive year, South Africa had to face defeat in the T20 World Cup final. Last year Australia defeated them in the final.
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