\n
Six days ago in Guwahati, Proteas skipper Wolvaardt was facing up to the media after her side had been bowled out for 69 in a 10-wicket thrashing by England.<\/p>\n
“We will put this behind us as quickly as we can,” she said. But even she could not have expected what has followed.<\/p>\n
They cruised to victory over New Zealand to get themselves back on track. One win, one loss after two games against their biggest competitors for a top-four place.<\/p>\n
Australia and India were supposed to be a level above, so facing the co-hosts had the potential to scupper South Africa’s momentum all over again.<\/p>\n
Instead, they’re flying with belief that a semi-final spot might only prove another step in a glorious comeback story.<\/p>\n
De Klerk’s innings of a lifetime, in which she cleared the ropes at will and left India’s star-studded side reeling, will quite rightly take the headlines.<\/p>\n
It is a knock that will have her front and centre of opposition plans before they play South Africa in future.<\/p>\n
“That was incredible,” Wolvaardt said. “I don’t think I’ve seen something like that in all of my career.<\/p>\n
“That innings that Nadine played was very special. I’m lost for words.”<\/p>\n
What made it so remarkable was not just the ball-striking but the composure and mental resilience.<\/p>\n
That started with Wolvaardt and Tryon, who refused to give up on a match that seemed lost – with one dreadful batting collapse already in this tournament, it would have been easy to surrender to another.<\/p>\n
Instead, they dug in and gave their side a chance. De Klerk and Tryon got them that much closer but even when the latter was dismissed, it could have turned into a familiar tale of a side valiant in defeat.<\/p>\n
However, De Klerk held her nerve and saw it through. Forget chokers, this World Cup’s comeback queens are proving themselves to be as resilient as they come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six days ago in Guwahati, Proteas skipper Wolvaardt was facing up to the media after her side had been bowled out for 69 in a 10-wicket thrashing by England. “We will put this behind us as quickly as we can,” she said. But even she could not have expected what has followed. They cruised to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20956,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954\/revisions\/20956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}