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South Africa Women vs New Zealand Women Scorecard, Match 7, ICC Womens ODI World Cup 2025
Result · Oct 06 2025, Mon - 03:00 PM (IST)
NEW ZEALAND WOMEN231
SOUTH AFRICA WOMEN234/4
South Africa Women won by 6 wickets
CRR:5.73
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Women's World Cup |
| Date: | Oct 06 2025, Mon - 03:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Indore |
| Venue: | Holkar Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat. |
| New Zealand Women Playing XI: | Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Melie Kerr, Sophie Devine (c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Izzy Gaze (wk), Jess Kerr, Lea Tahuhu, Eden Carson, Bree Illing |
| South Africa Women Playing XI: | Laura Wolvaardt (c), Tazmin Brits, Sune Luus, Marizanne Kapp, Anneke Bosch, Sinalo Jafta (wk), Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Masabata Klaas, Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba |
- New Zealand defeated South Africa by six wickets when they last met in a women’s ODI (1 October 2023), snapping a six-match losing run against them; the White Ferns will be aiming for consecutive wins against them in the format for the first time since October 2016.
- South Africa defeated New Zealand by two wickets when they last met at an ICC Women’s World Cup (17 March 2022); they had lost all their three meetings against the White Ferns in the tournament prior.
- New Zealand have won only one of their last seven women’s ODIs away from home (L6) – a 76-run victory against India (27 October 2024); the White Ferns lost their opening match of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 (1 October vs Australia) and will be looking to avoid consecutive defeats to begin a campaign for the first time in their history in the tournament.
- South Africa have lost each of their last two women’s ODIs away from home, after winning five of their six matches on the road prior in the format (L1); they lost their opening match of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 (3 October vs England) and will be looking to avoid consecutive defeats to begin a campaign for the first time since February 2013.
- New Zealand are one (9/9) of two teams remaining in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 with a 100% catch success rate (also England – 3/3); indeed, the White Ferns made the most catches (9) of any team in the first round of matches while South Africa (0) were the only side not to take a catch.
- South Africa bowled 81.2% of their deliveries on a length in their opening match of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, the highest rate of any team in the first round of games; although, they conceded 2.40 runs per scoring shot when bowling in this regard – only Pakistan (2.63) logged a higher average.
- Izzy Gaze (New Zealand) scored 86% of her 28 runs from boundaries in the White Ferns opening match of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 – the best rate of any player in the first round of matches (min. 25 runs scored).
- Marizanne Kapp (154) is one away from recording the outright most appearances for South Africa in women’s ODI history (also Mignon du Preez – 154); in addition, she’s nine away from surpassing Lizelle Lee (3,315) for the third most runs for South Africa in the history of the format (Laura Wolvaardt – 4,656 and Mignon du Preez – 3,760).
- Lea Tahuhu (29) is one away from becoming New Zealand’s all-time leading wicket taker in ICC Women’s World Cup history (also Catherine Campbell – 29); she’s taken 19 wickets at an average of 21.8 across her last 10 ODI innings.
- Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa) has a career batting average of 69.2 in ODIs against New Zealand, the third best of any player in the history of the women’s format (Rachael Heyhoe-Flint – 95 for England and Therese McGregor – 81 for Australia); she scored 67 runs in her only previous ICC Women’s World Cup innings against the White Ferns (17 March 2022).