ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020, most runs and wickets after February 23: van Niekerk, Kapp enter both tables

South Africa Women won their first fixture of the Women’s T20 World Cup by beating England Women at Perth. Nat Sciver scored 50 and saved the English innings at first. They set a target of 124 which was achieved by the Proteas with two balls remaining.

Dane van Niekerk and Marizanne Kapp scored 46 and 38 respectively to take South Africa to a secure position. Sciver is in third place now whereas van Niekerk and Kapp are enjoying fifth and seventh positions in the batting table.

Player	Team	R	Ave	SR	100	50
Sophie Devine	New Zealand	75	–	136.4	0	1
Alyssa Healy	Australia	51	51.00	145.7	0	1
Natalie Sciver	England	50	50.00	122.0	0	1
Deepti Sharma	India	49	–	106.5	0	0
Dane van Niekerk	South Africa	46	46.00	90.2	0	0
Chamari Athapaththu	Sri Lanka	41	41.00	136.7	0	0
Marizanne Kapp	South Africa	38	38.00	115.2	0	0
Ashleigh Gardner	Australia	34	34.00	94.4	0	0
Nannapat Koncharoenkai	Thailand	33	33.00	68.8	0	0
Shafali Verma	India	29	29.00	193.3	0	0
Maddy Green	New Zealand	29	29.00	145.0	0	0

Ayabonga Khaka took three wickets as Kapp and van Niekerk took two each. Sophie Ecclestone, on the other hand, picked up two wickets of South Africa. Khaka is now in fifth place as her colleagues are in seventh and eighth place. Ecclestone has reached the sixth position.

Player	Team	W	Ave	Econ	4WI
Poonam Yadav	India	4	4.75	4.75	1
Stafanie Taylor	West Indies	3	4.33	4.33	0
Shikha Pandey	India	3	4.67	3.65	0
Hayley Jensen	New Zealand	3	5.33	4.00	0
Ayabonga Khaka	South Africa	3	8.33	6.25	0
Sophie Ecclestone	England	2	9.50	4.75	0
Marizanne Kapp	South Africa	2	9.50	4.75	0
Dane van Niekerk	South Africa	2	10.00	5.00	0
Amelia Kerr	New Zealand	2	10.50	5.25	0
Jess Jonassen	Australia	2	12.00	6.00	0