Rahul Tiwari
khelja|20-01-2025
The ICC Women's Under-19 T20 World Cup is being played in Malaysia, where Samoa was defeated by the South African team. The result was that South Africa wrote the script of a big victory. Batting first, the entire Samoan team was limited to just 16 runs against South Africa. Samoa also made a record by being restricted to 16 runs. In fact, this has now become the lowest score in the history of ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup.
Malaysia previously held the record for the lowest score in the history of the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup. She had scored 23 runs against the Sri Lankan women's team in the current season of the tournament itself. But, only 24 hours had passed since Malaysia was bowled out for 23 runs when Samoa was all out for 16 runs and a new record was set.
Samoa batted first in the match. But his condition, which started deteriorating from the beginning, never came back on track. Perhaps because there was a strong team like South Africa in front. South Africa's bowlers took such notice of Samoa's batsmen that half the team was out on 0. Meaning, 5 batsmen of this team could not even open their account.
Another special thing about the bad condition of Samoa's batting was that no one from their side could touch double figures. The top scorer of the team scored 3 runs. More runs came in the form of extras from the bat of any batsman. South African bowlers bowled 6 extras against Samoa.