Are Proteas Women becoming the best chasers?

MUCH like the men’s team at the 1999 Cricket World Cup, this Proteas Women’s side is becoming rather good at chasing down scores, despite bad starts on a number of occasions.

- MICHAEL SHERMAN

The poorest start at this Women’s Cricket World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, of course, was against England when South Africa crashed to 69 all out.

There was simply no recovering from that as SA unsurprisingly lost by 10 wickets in what was the worst possible opening to their campaign.

Since then though, it’s been three wins on the trot for the Proteas.

Against New Zealand, South Africa made light work of their 232 victory target as Tazmin Brits scored a century and Sune Luus ended unbeaten with 82 as they coasted to a six-wicket victory with over nine overs to spare.

Their next two matches, however, seemed to show the real character of the side and on both occasions all-rounder Nadine de Klerk provided a starring role with the bat down the order.

Against hosts India last week, a victory target of 252 seemed rather imposing.