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Sri Lanka Women vs South Africa Women Scorecard, Match 18, ICC Womens ODI World Cup 2025
Result · Oct 17 2025, Fri - 03:00 PM (IST)
SRI LANKA WOMEN105/7
SOUTH AFRICA WOMEN125/0
South Africa Women won by 10 wickets (DLS Method)
CRR:8.43
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Women's World Cup |
| Date: | Oct 17 2025, Fri - 03:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Colombo |
| Venue: | R. Premadasa Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat. |
| South Africa Women Playing XI: | Laura Wolvaardt (c), Tazmin Brits, Sune Luus, Annerie Dercksen, Marizanne Kapp, Karabo Meso (wk), Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Nondumiso Shangase, Masabata Klaas, Nonkululeko Mlaba |
| Sri Lanka Women Playing XI: | Chamari Athapaththu (c), Vishmi Gunaratne, Hasini Perera, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Piumi Wathsala, Anushka Sanjeewani (wk), Sugandika Kumari, Inoka Ranaweera, Malki Madara |
- South Africa won their most recent women’s ODI against Sri Lanka after losing two on the bounce prior to that; the last time they went on a longer winning streak against Sri Lanka was a stretch of seven games between October 2014 and April 2024.
- Sri Lanka have lost seven of their last nine women’s ODIs (W2), including each of the last four on the bounce; the last time they went on a longer losing streak in the format was a stretch of 11 games between February 2019 and June 2022.
- South Africa have won each of their last four women’s ODIs when chasing a target, with each of the last three coming in the ongoing ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup; in fact, they have lost just two of their 10 women’s ODIs when chasing a target against Sri Lanka (W8).
- Sri Lanka have lost 11 of their last 13 women’s ODIs played at the R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (W2), including each of the last three on the bounce; in fact, their 14 losses here is the most at any venue in the format.
- South Africa have scored more than 50% of their runs via boundaries in each of their last three innings at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, after doing so just once in their previous nine innings in the competition since the start of the 2022 edition.
- 75% of Sri Lanka’s wickets in the ongoing ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup has come via a catch, the second highest such rate by any side behind New Zealand (76.7%); however, they are the only side yet to pick up a wicket via an LBW.
- Nadine de Klerk has scored 124 runs at a strike rate of 131.9 in the ongoing ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, the highest by any South Africa batter to score 100+ runs in a single edition; in fact, the six boundary sixes she’s hit in the ongoing edition is the joint second most by any Proteas batter in a single edition of the competition (Lizelle Lee – 12 sixes in 2017).
- Harshitha Samarawickrama (424 runs in 2025) is 76 away from becoming the second Sri Lanka batter to score 500+ runs in women’s ODIs in a single calendar year (Chamari Athapaththu – 533 in 2017); in fact, her four 50+ scores this year is the joint most by any Sri Lanka batter in a single calendar year alongside Chamari Athapaththu (4 in 2013).
- Tazmin Brits has scored 749 runs at an average of 68.1 in women’s ODIs in 2025, the highest of any South Africa batter in the format this calendar year; however, she has been dismissed for a duck in each of her last two innings in the format, after scoring a ton against New Zealand (101 on 6 October 2025).
- Chamari Athapaththu (933 runs) is 67 away from becoming the second batter to score 1,000+ runs against South Africa in women’s ODIs after Charlotte Edwards (1,318 runs); in fact, South Africa are one of three sides she has logged multiple tons against in the format (also New Zealand and Australia).