Women’s T20 World Cup: Scotland eliminated after 80-run defeat by South Africa

Kapp and Brits might have joint top-scored against the Scots, but the consistent churn of runs by Wolvaardt took her past a significant milestone.

In her last six T20 World Cup innings Wolvaardt has made a score of 40 or more and is the leading runscorer in the tournament with 141 at 70.50. Her strike rate of 116.52 is not too shabby, either.

The South Africa captain was given an early let-off by Scotland when she was on two, though.

Wolvaardt chipped a full toss off the seventh ball of the match from Kathryn Bryce to Katherine Fraser at mid-off, who shelled a routine catch.

She went on to hit 40 off 27 balls, including a six off Scotland spinner Olivia Bell having skipped down the pitch and elegantly timing a lofted drive over long-on.

The knock moved her on to 1,906 runs in T20 internationals as she climbed above Lizelle Lee (1,896) and Dane van Niekerk (1,877) to become South Africa’s all-time leading runscorer in the format.

For Scotland, this tournament is a learning curve and after commendable displays in defeats to Bangladesh and West Indies this was a bit of a shellacking.

Doubtless the psychological boost from dismissing Wolvaardt for single figures would have lifted them in the field, even if South Africa’s bowlers would likely have still had too much.

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