WOMEN’S CRICKET
Dané van Niekerk’s team off to UK on a high
The home side also have exponentially more experience in foreign conditions
The good news is that SA won all five of the one-day internationals (ODIs) and three T20s they played against Bangladesh these past two and a bit weeks. The bad news? None. Dané van Niekerk’s team have done everything asked of them. "To play eight games and win all eight‚ we don’t so that often‚" Van Niekerk said in Bloemfontein on Sunday after her women completed their whitewash with a 23-run win in a T20 reduced by rain to nine overs a side. "So maybe it’s the start of really great things with this team," she said. Maybe is the operative word here because even as SA’s triumph glows it highlights the bigger challenge to come in the shape of the three one-day internationals and the T20 triangular series they will play in England in June. Perspective is worth plenty‚ and in this instance it is that SA have played more than three-and-a-half times as many white-ball games as the Bangladeshis. The home side also have exponentially more experience in foreign conditions‚ in which they hav...
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