T20 match played in ODI World Cup, South Africa created a sensation; Crushed Sri Lanka with a four to win

SA-W vs SL-W ODI World Cup Match Report: In the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, a T20 match was played between South Africa and Sri Lanka today on Friday, 17 October. In the World Cup, this 50-over format game changed to 20-over. In this match, South Africa defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets. With this, South Africa’s team has come second in the World Cup points table with 4 wins. In this match, South African captain Laura Woolward and opening batsman Tajmin Brits batted brilliantly and led the team to victory. Captain Laura was chosen ‘Player of the Match’ for her explosive batting.

Laura Wolvaardt shows the way with a fiery, unbeaten fifty in South Africa’s successful chase over Sri Lanka 👏

She wins the @aramco POTM🎖️#CWC25 , #SAvSL pic.twitter.com/Nvf9XbqYqA

— ICC (@ICC) October 17, 2025

T20 match played in World Cup

The ongoing 50 over match between South Africa and Sri Lanka was converted into a T20 match due to rain. In this match, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first. The Sri Lankan team could score only 46 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 12 overs when rain spoiled the game. After the rain stopped, the game was reduced to 20-20 overs using the DLS method.

Sri Lanka scored 105 runs, got the target of 121

Sri Lankan team could score only 105 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. South African bowlers created a sensation in today’s match. For South Africa, Nonkululeko Mlaba took the maximum of 3 wickets. The match had started before the rain and Sri Lanka had played 12 overs. Because of this, the target was increased to 121 due to DLS Method.

South Africa won the match by 10 wickets

The South African team is looking very strong in this entire World Cup. When the South African team came out to bat, the explosive innings of captain Laura Woolward and Tajmin Britts made the match one-sided. Not a single wicket fell from the Sri Lankan bowlers. Laura played an unbeaten inning of 60 runs in 47 balls, in which she hit 8 fours. Whereas Tajmin Brits scored 55 runs in 42 balls, this batsman hit 4 fours and 2 sixes.

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