South Africa Women vs Sri Lanka Women, Sri Lanka Women tour of South Africa 2019, Today Match Prediction 14 Feb 2019

n/a vs srlw Match Prediction & Analysis

South Africa Women won the first ODI match by 7 runs after whitewashing the Sri Lankan team 3-0 in the T20I series. South Africa team is piling on the victories against the visiting Sri Lankan team. Captain Dane Van Niekerk was the star performer for the team in first ODI. She scored a century and also captured 2 wickets bowling economically in her quota of 10 over’s. She was well supported by the opener Andrie Steyn and their partnership helped their team to post a winning total. Masabata Klaas and Tume Sekhukhune bowled well in tandem and pickets up crucial wickets to derail the Sri Lankan team`s chase. 

Sri Lanka team has lost yet their match against South Africa in this series but they came very close to winning in the first ODI. Prasadini Werakkody and Shashikala Siriwardene played well but missed out on their respective half centuries by a whisker. They must have stayed in the crease for a longer period to see their team home in the chase. Nilakshi de Silva put up a spirited fight with the last wicket by fell short off the target. Oshadi Ranasinghe and Udeshikha Prabodhani picked up wickets at regular intervals last match in middle over’s. Skipper Chamari Atapathu had a forgetful outing by leaking runs with the ball and falling for a low score with the bat.

TEAMS PREVIEW

South Africa Women Preview

Key Players:

Andrie Steyn – Steyn played an excellent knock of 75 runs and formed a 100+ partnership with skipper Van Niekerk to help their post a big total.   

Masabata Klaas – Masabata Klaas captured three important middle order wickets and stalled the momentum in the Sri Lankan chase. 

Stats from the series:

Dane Van Niekerk –102 runs (117 balls) & bowling spell of 10-1-26-2 

Masabata Klass – Bowling spell of 7-0-46-3

South Africa Women Predicted Playing XI:

Mignon du Preez, Marizanne Kapp, Dane van Niekerk (c), Shabnim Ismail, Andrie Steyn, Lara Goodall, Laura Wolvaardt, Zintle Mali, Faye Tunnicliffe (wk), Tumi Sekhukhune, Masabata Klaas.

South Africa Women Actual Playing XI:

Masabata Klaas, Tumi Sekhukhune, Faye Tunnicliffe, Sune Luus, Shabnim Ismail, Nadine de Klerk, Laura Wolvaardt, Marizanne Kapp, Lara Goodall, Mignon du Preez, Andrie Steyn

Sri Lanka Women Preview

Key Players:

Prasadhini Weerakody – Weerakody played well for her 47 runs and had a fifty plus opening partnership for the opening wicket. She will look to score more runs and help their team. 

Inoka Ranaweera – Ranaweera bowled an economical spell just giving away 31 runs in her full quota of 10 overs and captured the wicket of well set Steyn.    

Stats from the series: 

Shashikala Siriwardene – 49 runs (56 balls) 

Oshadi Ranasinghe – Bowling spell of 9-0-40-3

Sri Lanka Women Predicted Playing XI:

Shashikala Siriwardene, Chamari Athapaththu (c), Udeshika Prabodhani, Inoka Ranaweera, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Prasadani Weerakkody (wk), Nilakshi de Silva, Harshitha Madavi, Anushka Sanjeewani, Achini Kulasuriya, Umesha Thimashini.

Sri Lanka Women Actual Playing XI:

Kavisha Dilhari, Prasadani Weerakkody, Shashikala Siriwardene, Harshitha Madavi, Chamari Atapattu, Nilakshi de Silva, Achini Kulasuriya, Inoka Ranaweera, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Anushka Sanjeewani, Udeshika Prabodhani

Weather Conditions

Senwes Park pitch provides a good balance between the bat and ball. And due to the morning start the pitch is expected to be same throughout the entire duration of the match. Average score in this pitch is 240 runs.

Toss: WIN the toss, BOWL First

Teams batting second have won 11 out of 20 matches played here so far and both teams look comfortable chasing the total rather than setting one. Both captains will look to bowl first here.