Laura Wolvaardt, Tazmin Brits went on to make a solid knock to post South Africa’s 10-wicket victory against Sri Lanka in the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025.

The unbeaten 125-run partnership secured a clean victory for South Africa, which helped the side to jump to second position in the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Points table.

Batting first, Vishmi Gunaratne and Chamari Athapathuthu went on to open the innings while Marizanne Kapp opened the bowling attack.

With Vishmi Gunaratne going out on a retired hurt for 12 runs, Chamari Athapaththu and Hasini Perera got dismissed by Klaas for 11 and 4 runs.

With Harshitha Samarawickrama and Kavisha Dilhari at the crease, the side went on to score 46 runs before rain interrupted the game.

Resming the game, Kavisha Dilhari lost her wicket for 14 runs, while Harshitha Samarawickrama scored 13 runs before being dismissed by Mlaba.

Malaba went on to bag the wicket of Nilakshi de Silva for 18 runs. With Anusha Sanjeewani sent on on a runout, Vishmi got dismissed by Mlaba on the last ball of the 20 over innings who posted 34 runs.

Sri Lanka went on to score 105 runs for 7 wickets in the 20 over innings. Mlaba went on to bag three wickets while Klaas completed her spell of 5 overs with 2 wickets.

With a revised target of 119 runs, Laura Wolvaardt and Tazmin Brits started the chase and went on to smash fifties each to complete the chase in the 15th over.

Wolvaardt went on to smash 60 runs off 47 deliveries which included 8 fours while Tazmin Brits scored 55* runs off 42 deliveries which included 4 fours and 2 sixes scoring 125 runs to complete the chase.

South Africa secured a 10 wicket victory with Laura Wolvaardt named as the Player of the match.

Speaking on the post match conference, “Very relieved that we got a game there in the end. It was a frustrating day, sitting on the side for four or five hours, but lovely to get the two points. (Approach while batting) We just said it’s a normal T20 game.”

“We wanted to get ahead of that rate as soon as we could. We didn’t want to leave it close to the end again. We wanted to have a convincing win this time. So, just trying to go out there with the same intent we would in T20 cricket, and glad that we batted through.”

“That ball was a bar of soap when we were bowling at the end there. But it did come on quite nicely off the wicket, so it was nice when we were batting, not so much when we were fielding.”

“(On her captaincy) Pretty tricky, especially with the rain delay. I haven’t had too much experience with that in my captaincy career. But it worked out quite nicely for us.”

“Obviously, our normal death bowlers had bowled out quite early, so I had to bowl a bit of spin at the end, which was a bit different for us. A lot of preparation from a captaincy point of view. But when I’m batting, I’m not thinking about any of that. I’m just trying to watch the ball as hard as I can,” Laura Wolvaardt concluded.