In the warm up matches, we did not see a good performance from the South African women's team. Moreover, West Indies women's team is very strong in T20 format. So I considered the West Indies team as favourites. But West Indies could not start their innings well. West Indies Women's team will not be able to provide a big target today.
At the end of 15 overs, the West Indies women's team collected only 83 runs. The players of West Indies could not collect 5 runs in every over. Moreover, West Indies have already lost 5 wickets. Apart from Stefanie Taylor, there is no more experienced batsman at the crease. Stefanie Taylor remains unbeaten with 25 runs from 25 balls.
The pitch is not batting friendly. Had West Indies women set a target around 140, they could have won. But now it seems that the team will not be able to collect even 120 runs. The chances of West Indies winning are very low at the moment.
There is relatively no major difference between West Indies women's team and South Africa women's team. Because both the teams are almost equally strong in the T20 format and are they positioned side by side according to the ICC rankings. One thing I find surprising in this World Cup is that a total of three teams have played so far including today's match. However, none of the teams in any matches could collect 120 plus runs, which undoubtedly means that the pitches of this stadium, i.e. this year's World Cup, have been made bowling friendly pitch. As a result of which the batsmen are not able to apply any advantage even their team collection is not increasing.
In the match between West Indies Women's team and South Africa Women's team, when the West Indies women were batting earlier we saw their batting disaster. Due to which they closed the innings of only 118 runs in this match. If the South African women suffer a batting disaster like the West Indies women, then this match is going to be very exciting in the last minute.