Marizanne Kapp made an all-rounder performance, helping South Africa Women to post a mammoth 150-run victory against Pakistan in the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 on October 21 at Colombo.
They secured a mammoth victory in the rain-affected game, making it to the top of the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 points table.
After being invited to bat first, South Africa had a major blow, losing the wicket of Tazmin Brits cheaply, before rain interrupted the game at Colombo.
After resuming the game, South Africa were unstoppable, as Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus posted a 118-run partnership for the second wicket. Nashra Sandhu brought the second breakthrough, dismissing Sune Luus, who scored 61 runs off 59 deliveries.
Despite Annerie Dercksen and Karabo Maso being dismissed cheaply, Marizanne Kapp went on to take a solid stance at the crease, making small partnerships with Chloe Tryon and Nadine de Klerk, helping the side to breach the 300-run mark in the 40-over games.
Marizanne Kapp went on to post an unbeaten 68 runs as South Africa scored 312 runs in the 40-over innings.
Although Sadia Iqbal and Nashra Sandhu picked three wickets each, South Africa did put up a big target for Pakistan to chase in their 40-over innings. Pakistan will need to post 306 runs in their innings with a revised score (DLS Method).
Starting the chase, Pakistan’s innings has been haunted with back to back wickets and rain interruption.
With multiple rain intervention and revised target, Pakistan was set to score 234 runs in 20 overs.
Muneeba Ali and Omaima Sohail opened the innings where Khaka bagged the first wicket for South Africa dismissing Muneeba for 5 runs.
𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐰!
𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚: 𝟑𝟏𝟐/𝟗 (𝟓𝟎)
Laura Wolvaardt – 90 (82)
Marizanne Kapp – 68* (43)
Nashra Sandhu – 3/45 (8)𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧: 𝟖𝟑/𝟕 (𝟐𝟎)
Sidra Nawaz – 22* (33)
Natalia Pervaiz – 20 (24)… pic.twitter.com/rJLWNFmHJt— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) October 21, 2025
Marizanne Kapp went on to dismiss Omaima Sohail and Sidra Amin for in a single over for 6 and 13 runs.
Kapp bagged her third wicket dismissing Aliya Riaz for 3 runs. Shangese dismissed Natalia and Fatima cheaply as Pakistan went on to score 83 runs in 20 overs and suffered a massive 150 run-victory at Colombo.
Marizanne Kapp was Named player of the match. Speaking on the post match conference, Kapp said, “Beautiful wicket to bat on. Bit annoyed that we didn’t get to play the full fifty overs. Had a lot of fun. Earlier batters set a beautiful platform for us and made our job easy to come in and play our natural game.”
“Gave myself a few balls to get in. I actually enjoy batting at five. Honestly I didn’t bowl too well. Wasn’t happy with my bowling. Bowled better in previous games. Happy to get the rewards. We saw in the previous game how well Klaasy bowled. Feel like everyone’s been bowling really well,” concluded Marizanne Kapp.
South Africa Women will play their next game against Australia on October 25 at Holkar Stadium.
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