Yesterday I was putting the New Zealand women ahead and in the end the New Zealand women won. New Zealand women batted first and scored 158 which was a good score. The New Zealand women's batting line-up was good, with Suzie Bates and Brooke Halliday batting well. Yes, Amelia Kerr performed well both batting and bowling well. South Africa Women's batting line-up was not good, except for Laura Wolvaardt, all batsmen failed to play big innings. South Africa women beat strong teams like Australia women, so I thought they could compete well against New Zealand women. But South Africa women lost against New Zealand women by a huge margin of 32 runs. Anyway congrats to the New Zealand women for being champions.
New Zealand has won the final game. By the way, in 2024, I have noticed that South Africa always went very close through the win but couldn't achieve it for whatever reason they wanted. And named as the runner up. Not only in 2024 for many years, this same process is going on and i would call this bad luck is following them.
But in this year 2024, they were so close in men's cricket and in women's cricket. Both times they reached the final of the T20 World Cup but were named as the runners up. South African women lost against New Zealand and on the other hand, South Africa men's lost against India on 29th June at Barbados.
Pain of expectation weighs heavy as South Africa fall short again