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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Brits’ impressive knock leads South Africa to dominant win in opening T20I

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Sport Desk
32 days ago
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South Africa's Tazmin Brits was named Player-of-the-Match after scoring 98 from 63 balls against West Indis Women.

South Africa's Tazmin Brits was named Player-of-the-Match after scoring 98 from 63 balls against West Indis Women.

BRIDGETOWN – Tazmin Brits fell ag­o­nis­ing­ly short of a maid­en cen­tu­ry but her sen­sa­tion­al in­nings pow­ered South Africa Women to a com­mand­ing 50-run win over West In­dies Women in the open­ing T20I in Bar­ba­dos Fri­day.

Play­er-of-the-Match Brits blast­ed an un­beat­en 98 from just 63 balls to pro­pel the vis­i­tors to 183 for six in their 20 overs af­ter they were sent in to bat at the 3W’s Oval, Cave Hill Cam­pus.

Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow then scored her first T20I half-cen­tu­ry in an oth­er­wise dis­ap­point­ing per­for­mance by West In­dies Women and they could on­ly muster 133 for six from their 20 overs.

The win was set up by a su­perb bat­ting dis­play from Brits, who came to South Africa’s res­cue af­ter they lost open­er and cap­tain Lau­ra Wolvaardt and Ma­rizanne Kapp cheap­ly to slip to 25 for two in the fifth over.

Brits and Na­dine de Klerk set about re­pair­ing the dam­age dur­ing a 71-run part­ner­ship for the third wick­et in 10 overs.

Brits hit spin­ner Afy Fletch­er for a six and two fours in the ninth over that leaked 18 runs to move in­to the 40s.

She then brought up her first T20I half-cen­tu­ry off 34 balls by clob­ber­ing Jahzara Clax­ton for a four and six off con­sec­u­tive de­liv­er­ies two overs lat­er.

Clax­ton broke the part­ner­ship in the same over, hav­ing de Klerk caught and bowled for 21 off 17 balls.

Brits then forged cru­cial part­ner­ships with Mi­ane Smit, Chloe Try­on and Karabo Meso, to help get South Africa up to a com­pet­i­tive to­tal.

She brought the in­nings to an ex­plo­sive end by smash­ing Kar­ish­ma Ramharack for a six off the last ball of the in­nings to fin­ish on 98 not out, in­clu­sive of nine fours and four six­es.

It was South Africa Women’s high­est T20I score against the West In­dies.

Clax­ton was the best bowler for the Windies, tak­ing 3-39 from her four overs.

The West In­dies’ run chase nev­er re­al­ly got off the ground, with Qiana Joseph falling to a spec­tac­u­lar catch on the square leg bound­ary by Try­on with just six runs on the board.

Realean­na Grim­mond was then un­for­tu­nate to be run out at the non-strik­er’s end for just four and when cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews skied a catch to de Klerk at mid-off off the bowl­ing of Kapp to be out for 19, West In­dies were in trou­ble at 42 for three in the sixth over.

Six runs lat­er She­maine Camp­belle was back in the pavil­ion af­ter scor­ing 16 runs and the run chase ef­fec­tive­ly came to an end when Shabi­ka Gajn­abi was bowled by Nonku­l­uleko Mla­ba for a duck to leave the West In­dies 49 for five.

Glas­gow was the lone bright spark dur­ing her un­beat­en knock of 53 from 44 balls, which in­clud­ed five fours, that helped bring some re­spectabil­i­ty to the to­tal.

She added 81 runs for the sixth wick­et with Chinelle Hen­ry, who looked out of sorts dur­ing her knock of 26 from 32 balls.

Kapp took 2-27 for South Africa.

The sec­ond T20I is sched­uled to be played Sun­day.

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Brief scores

SOUTH AFRICA WOMEN 183-6 in 20 overs (Tazmin Brits 98 not out, Na­dine de Klerk 21, Chloe Try­on 16; Jahzara Clax­ton 3-39) vs WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 133-6 in 20 overs (Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow 53 not out, Chinelle Hen­ry 26, Hay­ley Matthews 19, She­maine Camp­belle 16; Ma­rizanne Kapp 2-27).

South Africa Women won by 50 runs.


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