Laura Woolfart’s century (Photo: PTI)
South Africa Women beat India Women: South Africa women’s team has also won the third T20 against India. With this, it captured the series by taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5-match T20 series. South Africa defeated India by 9 wickets in the third T20. Earlier, South Africa had defeated India by 6 wickets in the first T20 and by 8 wickets in the second T20. South African women won all three matches of the T20 series by run chasing, in which their captain Laura Woolfart played a big role. The 220 runs scored by the South African captain played a major role in giving India an unassailable 3-0 lead and capturing the series. During this, Laura Woolfart also equaled the world record held by Smriti Mandhana and Meg Lanning.
South African captain scored the fastest century
In the third match of the T20 series, India had set a target of 193 runs for South Africa to win, thanks to Shefali Verma’s 64 runs and Harmanpreet Kaur’s 66 runs. In this big run chase, South African captain Laura Woolfart led her team from the front with the first ball. In the third T20, Laura Woolfart scored the fastest century of her career. The stormy century from the bat of the South African captain made the task of her team easy. Although her wicket fell in the 16th over, by then the way was ready for South Africa’s victory and another defeat for Indian women.
Laura Woolfart scored a century in 47 balls
Laura Woolfart scored 115 runs facing 53 balls. Played at a strike rate of 216.98, this innings included 5 sixes and 14 fours. Laura Woolfart scripted the fastest century of her T20I career off 47 balls, which is the fourth fastest century in women’s T20I. This is the overall third century of Laura Woolfart’s T20I career.
South African captain equals the world record
Along with scoring a century in the third T20 against India, Laura Woolfart also equaled the world record of Smriti Mandhana and Meg Lanning. The record of scoring maximum 17 centuries in women’s international cricket is in the name of Smriti Mandhana and Meg Lanning. But now Laura Woolfart’s name has also been added to this list. He too has now scored 17 centuries in his international career. Laura Woolfart has scored 1 century in Test, 13 in ODI and 3 in T20I.
Won T20 series against India by scoring 220 runs
Laura Woolfart has scored fifty plus in the first three matches of the 5-match T20 series. Before scoring 115 runs in the third T20, he scored 54 runs in the second T20 and 51 runs in the first T20. Thus, by scoring 220 runs so far, she has not only become the most successful batsman of the series but has also made her team win the T20 series. Laura Woolfart has scored 220 runs in 3 matches at an average of 73.33.
