
Match 9 – England v South Africa
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, 7 October
England 125/3 (19.2) beat South Africa 124/6 (20.0) by 7 wickets
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125 – England moved to the top of Group B with a hard fought victory against South Africa. This was the highest scoring match at Sharjah so far at this World Cup, and the first match on either ground in which both sides have scored at better than a run a ball.
3.333 – Among the ten sides contesting this event, England have the best win-loss record in the format since the last T20 Word Cup (won 20, lost 6).
133.00 – Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 48* off 36 balls (strike rate 133.33) took England across the finishing line. The quality of Sciver-Brint’s innings is emphasised by the fact that batters have so far averaged 15.13 runs per dismissal at a strike rate of 86.81 (and 83.83 in chases) at Sharjah during this World Cup.
43 – Danni Wyatt-Hodge’s innings was her second highest score at a T20 World Cup. Wyatt-Hodge’s 40 and 43 balls faced respectively on the tricky surface and stifling conditions of the opening two games at Sharjah have been the two longest innings of her T20 World Cup career (which now spans across seven editions of the tournament since 2010).
64 – Sciver-Brunt and Wyatt-Hodge’s 3rd wicket partnership was the first half-century stand for any side at Sharjah during this tournament, and England women’s second highest partnership for any wicket in a T20 World Cup match against south Africa.
7.93 rpo – Sciver-Brunt and Wyatt-Hodge have the highest average run-rate of any partnership to have scored 1,000 or more runs together in women’s T20Is.
24 – Sophie Ecclestone (4-0-15-2) is now England women’s second highest wicket-taker at T20 World Cups.
10.50 – Ecclestone’s T20 World Cup bowling average of 10.50 is the best by any woman to have taken ten or more wickets across the history of the tournament, while her economy rate of 4.35 rpo is the second lowest among those to have bowled in ten or more World Cup innings.
83.3% – Sarah Glenn (4-0-18-1) has finished with an economy rate of under a run a ball in ten of the twelve innings she has bowled in T20Is this year. The average run-rate in these matches has been 7.08 rpo, while Glenn herself has gone at a parsimonious 4.52 rpo.
2 – Marizanne Kapp (4-2-17-1) became the first South African woman to bowl two maidens in a T20 World Cup match. Until this year, it had been twelve years and five full editions of the tournament since any bowler had delivered two maidens in a Women’s T20 World Cup innings.
With Kapp following Chinelle Henry’s efforts for West Indies against Scotland the day before, it has now happened twice in the last two games, underlining the tough conditions in the UAE.
26 & 1 – This was the eleventh time in her T20I career that Kapp has both taken a wicket and scored 25 or more runs in the same match. Only her wife, Dane van Niekerk, has achieved this all-round feat more often (14 times) for the Proteas women in the format.
40.00 – Struggling to get away against the new ball spell, Maia Bouchier played the second lowest strike innings of 20+ balls faced by an English woman in a T20I:
- 35.00 Sarah Taylor 7 (20) v NZ at Hove, 2010
- 40.00 Maia Bouchier 8 (20) v SA at Sharjah, 2024
- 41.66 Amy Jones 10 (24) v AUS at Canberra, 2020
188.24 – In her last two T20I innings combined, Annerie Dercksen has scored 64 unbeaten runs at a strike rate of 188.24.
504 – Laura Wolvaardt’s innings (42) saw her pass the 500 run mark in T20Is for 2024. Having scored 586 last year, Wolvaardt became the second woman in T20I history to score 500+ runs in consecutive years. The other is UAE’s Kavisha Egodage, with 696 in 2022 and 518 in 2023
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.