Dané lays down the law as SA hunt series win
National women’s cricket team captain talks tough ahead of ODI decider in Canterbury
You would not want to be in the dressing room as part of a team that has played below themselves if that side is captained by Dané van Niekerk. That is going on what she said in public in the wake of SA’s women’s cricket team’s thumping in Brighton on Tuesday. Given the chance to at least partly blame England’s 69-run victory to level the one-day series on bad fortune‚ Van Niekerk said: "It wasn’t hard luck. It was bad execution as a bowling unit and as a batting unit. "I think we just expected it to happen‚ like it did in the first game [in Worcester on Saturday‚ when SA won by seven wickets]. That was the frustrating thing for me. "We didn’t fight for wickets; we just expected something to happen. We didn’t sum up the conditions well. The scorecard speaks for itself." Van Niekerk put England in to bat on what turned out to be a belter‚ and the home side racked up 331/6, their sixth highest total and the second highest yet made against SA. "We spoke about it beforehand and we were ...
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