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Lizelle Lee takes South Africa past Indian eves in rain-marred game

Abhishek Singh

South Africa veteran Lizelle Lee turned on her A-game as she scored only her third hundred in ODI cricket to take South Africa home through a Duckworth-Lewis and Stern method. Lee carried her bat, scoring a brilliant 132 off 131 ball in a chase of 249. 

Along with Lee, another experienced campaigner Mignon du Preez also played an important cameo, scoring a quickfire 37 to give the team the desired pull during the chase. 

The chase started in a positive manner for the rainbow nation’s eves as Laura Wolvaardt, making her captaincy debut, added 41 runs with Lee. However, once she was removed for 12, Lara Goodall couldn’t make much of an impact either, getting out for 16, after a 49 that she had scored in the previous game. Lee though remained unperturbed by these dismissals and continued building upon her momentum. Joined by du Preez, she started taking on the Indian bowlers as the two added 97 in 90 balls. 

However, just after du Preez’s dismissal of Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Jhulan Goswami removed Marizanne Kapp to put South African women in a spot of bother, as they could only get 10 runs in the next three overs. But just when the required rate started climbing, Lee pulled up her socks and started scoring briskly, even as her partner Anne Bosch found it difficult to even rotate the strike. Lee’s last 23 runs came in just 15 balls. 

Just before the start of the rain came in, South Africa women hit 10 runs in the previous over to get ahead of the par score of 217 by six runs. 

Earlier in the day, Wolvaardt won the toss and put India to bat first. It was a third failure in the row for Jemimah Rodriguez as she was removed by Shambnim Ismail for nought. Smriti Mandhana too couldn’t get a big score in this game and India were 64-2 when skipper Mithali Raj joined Punam Raut in the middle. Mithali, after getting to the milestone 10,000 international runs got out, but Raut continued scoring 77 off 108 balls. With Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma’s 36 each, India was able to make it to 248 in their 50 overs. 

With this win at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium in Lucknow, South Africa w lead the five-match series 2-1. Lee was awarded Man of the Match for her brilliant innings.

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