Springbok captain Siya Kolisi has wished the Proteas Women’s aspect good luck and has urged South Africans to throw their assist behind the staff throughout the T20 World Cup.
The Women’s T20 World Cup will kick off on Friday, 10 February at 19:00 when hosts South Africa play their opening Group A match towards Sri Lanka at Newlands in Cape Town.
SIYA KOLISI BACKS PROTEAS WOMEN IN T20 WORLD CUP
Siya Kolisi shared a video of himself donning a Proteas supporter’s jersey through which he sends his effectively needs to the staff, who begins their T20 World Cup marketing campaign towards Sri Lanka on Friday night.
“I’m getting ready to turn it up this coming weekend in support of Proteas Women in the T20 World Cup tournament. Let’s get behind them and support imboboko, because they deserve it!” Kolisi captioned his video publish in Instagram.
Watch Siya Kolisi’s video beneath:
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SOUTH AFRICA V SRI LANKA
Players to look at
If names by themselves have a possible to guide, then it must be Marizanne Kapp for the Proteas Women. The influential all-rounder can win the sport on her personal with each bat and ball, which was on present within the earlier ODI World Cup (203 runs @ 40.60, 12 wickets @ 4.73 runs per over). Sri Lanka may do with some runs from their younger batter Harshitha Madavi Samarawickrama, who was their top-scorer within the WT20I Asia Cup (202 runs, common 25.25) and has the expertise of taking part in within the earlier WT20WC (41 runs, common 20.50).
Stat assault
Four of the 5 Women’s T20 World Cup video games at Newlands had been gained batting first.
The Proteas Women might not thoughts chasing as 9 of their earlier 10 (out of 13 WT20I H2Hs) have come batting second. Six of these have been with a margin of seven or extra wickets.
The final time these two sides met in a T20I, Sri Lanka had been bowled out for 46 with Nadine de Klerk returning figures of 4-1-7-3.
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