New Zealand Women vs South Africa Women 2nd T20I: The New Zealand team, which defeated South Africa by 80 runs in the first T20 match played at Bay Oval, suffered a crushing defeat in Hamilton. In the second T20 match, South Africa, batting first, scored 177 runs in 20 overs, in response New Zealand women's team was bundled out for just 159 runs. Captain Amelia Carr gave an excellent all-round performance but she could not lead the team to victory.

Good performance by South Africa's top order

Batting first, South African openers Sune Luus and Taizmin Britts gave a good start to the team. Both added 62 runs for the first wicket. Luce scored 31 runs in 21 balls while Brits scored 53 runs in 43 balls. Captain Laura Woolfart also played an unbeaten inning of 41 runs in 33 balls. The South African team could not reach the score of 177 runs but Kayla Reineke, who came at number 7, scored 28 runs in 9 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 2 fours, taking the team to a strong score.

New Zealand's batting failed

In reply, New Zealand's opening pair proved to be a failure. Wicketkeeper Isabella Gage scored only 6 runs. Georgia Plimmer played an inning of 1 run. However, after a bad start, captain Amelia Carr batted brilliantly and scored 32 runs in 18 balls. She made a good partnership with Sophie Devine who scored 25 runs in 18 balls. But after his wicket, New Zealand's middle order collapsed. In the end this team collapsed for 159 runs in 19.1 overs. For South Africa, Ray Khaka took 4 wickets and Malaba took 3 wickets. Now the series is tied at 1-1 and the third match will be played at Eden Park on March 20.

Amelia Karr created history

Even though the New Zealand team lost the second T20, the captain of this team Amelia Carr created history in the match. Amelia Karr has achieved the feat of scoring more than 1000 runs and taking more than 100 wickets in T20. She is the first full nation female player in the world to achieve this feat. By the way, Hong Kong's Carrie Chan has also done this work. Among men, Shakib Al Hasan had accomplished this feat in 84 matches.