SAW vs BANW Playing 11: Laura Wolvaardt-led South Africa will square off against Nigar Sultana-led Bangladesh in the 14th match of the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 on October 13 at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.
South Africa has secured two wins out of the three games they have played so far. Suffering a 10-wicket defeat against England women, they made an impressive comeback, securing 6 6-wicket victory against New Zealand women and a 3-wicket win against India Women.
On the other hand, Bangladesh secured 1 win out of three games. Nigar Sultana’s side secured 7 wicket victory against Pakistan women while suffered back to back defeats against England Women (4-Wicket Defeat) and New Zealand (100-run defeat).
With South Africa went on to secure 4th position, while Bangladesh secured a 7th position in the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 points table.
Both sides has met on 21 occasions in ODIs where South Africa has a dominating record of 18 wins while Bangladesh has only 3 wins.
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Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bat. Speaking on toss, Nigar Sultana said, “We want to bat first because we have seen in the last few games, it was a kind of a wicket where your batters can give some runs. You want to bat first.”
“This sort of wicket, if you can put some score on the board, it will actually help the bowlers and our bowlers have been playing well in this tournament.”
“It was a small, short turnaround but we talked about it a lot. I think we are looking forward to coming strongly as a batting unit. We have two changes,” concluded Sultana.
Meanwhile, Laura Wolvaardt said, “I probably would have bowled anyway. I don’t mind that too much. I am thinking there will be a lot of dew later. So, it might be harder to grip the ball later and maybe come on to the bat a bit nicer.”
“It was an amazing game of cricket. I think the group was really on a big high after that game. We spent the last couple of days coming back down to earth though. I think we still have a long way to go in this tournament,” added Wolvaardt.
“The game was incredible but I think like we have been saying, it is one game at a time and we can’t take any game lightly or expect that to happen again.”
“So, full refocus, full switch on today and hopefully we can put in another good performance. Not exactly (the same XI), we have two changes,” concluded Laura Wolvaardt.
SAW vs BANW Playing 11
South Africa Playing 11: Laura Wolvaardt(c), Tazmin Brits, Anneke Bosch, Annerie Dercksen, Marizanne Kapp, Sinalo Jafta(w), Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Masabata Klaas, Tumi Sekhukhune, Nonkululeko Mlaba
Bangladesh Playing 11: Rubya Haider, Fargana Hoque, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana(w/c), Sobhana Mostary, Fahima Khatun, Shorna Akter, Nahida Akter, Rabeya Khan, Ritu Moni, Marufa Akter
