Delhi: The 18th match of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 will be held on Friday (October 17) at R.K. Stadium, Colombo. Played between South Africa and Sri Lanka at Premadasa Stadium. Due to rain the match was reduced to 20-20 overs. Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first and scored 105 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. After this, under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) rule, South Africa got a target of 121 runs to win, which South Africa achieved without losing any wicket and won by 10 wickets.

Bad start for Sri Lanka, Vishmi Gunaratne’s return brought relief

The Sri Lankan team, who came to bat first, had a disappointing start. Captain Chamari Atapattu returned to the pavilion after scoring only 11 runs. The other opening batsman Vishmi Gunaratne got injured on the personal score of 12 runs and was taken out of the field with the help of a stretcher. However, the delay in the start of the game due to rain gave him a chance to recover and after his return, he played an important inning of 34 runs, which helped the team to some extent.

Harshita Samarawickrama added 13 runs, Kavisha Dilhari added 14 runs and Neelakshi de Silva added 18 runs. Sri Lankan team could score only 105 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Great performance by South African bowlers

For South Africa, Nonkululeko Mlaba bowled brilliantly and took 3 wickets. Masabata Claas took 2 wickets and Nadine de Klerk took 1 wicket. Sri Lankan batsmen were seen struggling against the South African bowlers.

South Africa’s innings

Chasing the target, South Africa’s opening batsmen achieved the target in 14.5 overs. The green jersey team won by 10 wickets, in which captain Laura Wolvaardt (60*) and Tazmin Britts (55*) helped their team get 8 points and reach second place after 5 matches. There was an unbeaten partnership of 125 runs between the two for the first wicket.

This is South Africa’s joint longest winning streak in the Women’s World Cup. This team had also won four consecutive matches in the 2022 edition.

This is South Africa’s sixth 10-wicket win in women’s ODI history, and their second such win in the World Cup. Earlier in 2017, he had registered a spectacular win against West Indies in Leicester in 2017 while chasing the target of 49 runs with 262 balls remaining.

South African women’s team captain Laura Wolvaardt was awarded the Player of the Match title. He hit 8 fours in his innings. During this period Laura faced 47 balls. Apart from this, Tazmin Britts hit 8 fours and 2 sixes in 42 balls. At the same time, all the bowlers of the Sri Lankan women’s team seemed hungry for one wicket.

Playing eleven of both the teams

Sri Lanka: Chamari Atapattu (captain), Hasini Perera, Harshita Samarawickrama, Vishami Gunaratne, Kavisha Dilhari, Neelakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeevani (wicketkeeper), Piyami Vathsala, Sugandhika Kumari, Malki Madara, Enoka Ranaweera.

South Africa: Laura Wolvaardt (captain), Tazmin Brits, Marizanne Kapp, Sune Loos, Anne Derksen, Karabo Maceo (wk), Nadine de Klerk, Chloe Tryon, Nondumiso Shangase, Nonkululeko Mlaba, Masabata Klaas.