SA-W vs PAK-W

From getting skittled out for 69 in their opening game to winning 5 in a row and occupying the top of the table, South Africa have turned it around and how. Now, they have Australia in their final league game and that clash can potentially decide who tops the table going into the semis. The action moves to Indore tomorrow as the tournament's only two unbeaten teams and the oldest rivals Australia and England will take on each other in a high-voltage clash. Make sure you join us for that, this is Sourabh Agrawal signing off on behalf of Karthik Raj and the entire team. Cheers!

Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa Captain): "Pretty good. Scoring 312 in 40 overs is really nice from us. Performances all-round. Kappie (Marizanne Kapp) was great, Nadine (de Klerk) was unbelievable in the end. Yeah, pretty close. We had someone up top batting through and then a batter in the middle controlling the innings. So, we sort of ticked a lot of boxes. Taking the early wickets shifted the DLS in our favour, Kappie was amazing. Nadine might have had to bowl from a few steps or something. They did well to do some speed bowling."

Fatima Sana (Pakistan Women Captain): "Today is the day our bowlers did not perform well, we have to accept that. The way they played was awesome. We need to be calm. The situation before rain and after rain was completely different. It was wet and very difficult to bowl. We just tried to bowl within the stumps but due to the wet conditions we could not, we did not well. We still believe because we have the batting, today we lost early wickets and could not go on to make big scores. We just need to believe more on ourselves, we did not do that."

Marizanne Kapp (Player of the Match): It was a beautiful wicket to bat on. Bit annoyed didn't get to play the full 50 overs but had fun. Wolfie (Laura Wolvaardt) and Sune (Luus) set up a superb platform. Just looked to give myself a few balls to get in and like I said, it was fun out there. Actually, like batting at No.5. Got a bit of a game-plan especially batting with the lower-order. It worked out tonight. Honestly, wasn't happy with my bowling. Thought I bowled better in the previous games but still got the rewards. Would want to play more on this wicket. Leftie (Nonkululeko Mlaba) has been brilliant. Everything has been coming together for us.

11:07 PM local time and IST: MATCH SUMMARY

South Africa (312/9 in 40 overs) beat Pakistan (83/7 in 20 overs) by 150 runs via DLS method

Laura Wolvaardt 90(82) | Marizanne Kapp 3/20(5)
Sidra Nawaz 22*(33) | Nashra Sandhu 3/45(8)

Want to see what a no-contest is? I'll suggest you to catch the highlights of this game and then come back to read this summary. South Africa were head and shoulders above Pakistan and they have now registered 5 wins on the trot to move to the top of the points table.

Rain and South Africa has never been a great love story and the rain once again tried to snatch away yet another deserving win from the Proteas but just as fate would have it, after those multiple rain delays, we just about had enough time to sneak in a 20-over chase. The groundsmen had a proper workout today running in and out with the large blue covers god knows how many times and now the South Africans are applauding the hard-working groundsmen with some claps for their thankless job. So heartwarming to see!

For the first time in the tournament, the mark of 300 was breached with South Africa doing it in a truncated 40-over innings and that was always going to be a tall, tall task for Pakistan who were nowhere in the chase. Khaka started off by removing Muneeba Ali in the second over of the chase before Kapp showed her class with 3 wickets in her opening spell killing the non-existent chase right there.

From there on, it was just South Africa against the rain, in the end South Africa just sneaked in 20 overs with some Jadeja-esque overs from both the ends with the spinners. They managed to do it just in time as it has started to rain here again minutes after the completion.

With this result, Pakistan are now officially eliminated from the World Cup.

19.6 Chloe Tryon to Sidra Nawaz, short outside-off, Nawaz cuts it to backward point and takes off for a single. However, there is a good throw to the keeper who whips off the bails to find Rameen Shamim short of the crease. All smiles as South Africa win by 150 runs according to the DLS method!

19.4 Chloe Tryon to Rameen Shamim, IN THE AIR AND DROPPED! Full outside-off, Rameen runs down the track and lifts it to mid-off where Nondumiso Shangase spills the catch. Single taken.