London — Men are apparently from Mars and women are from Venus, but cricket-minded South Africans of whatever gender would not have had to think too hard before picking their preferred planet on Sunday. Normal service resumed for SA’s men in Cardiff, where England clinched the T20 series. But the women got their World Cup campaign off to a rousing start with victory over Pakistan in Leicester. AB de Villiers’s team went down by 19 runs in the deciding game of the rubber, bringing to six the number of defeats in the nine matches they have played in England. Dane van Niekerk talked tough leading into the tournament, and her team backed her up by surging to a three-wicket win with an over to spare. Both of SA’s teams were put under pressure in matches that could have gone either way. Only one survived that test. Any jokes about all those years spent in the kitchen having inured women to the heat will come with a punchline of mandatory membership of Misogynists Anonymous. What do you ca...
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