Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 30 (ANI): The fixtures for the semi-finals of the ICC Ladies’s U19 T20 World Cup 2025 have been confirmed, with defending champions India set to play towards England on Friday.
South Africa will tackle Australia within the first semi-final on the identical day, because the ICC introduced the dates, instances, and venues for the knockout phases of the event.
Each matches will happen at Bayuemas Oval in Kuala Lumpur, with the primary semi-final between South Africa and Australia scheduled to start at 10:30 AM native time, and the second semi-final between India and England set to begin 4 hours later at 2:30 PM native time, as per ICC.
The winners of each semi-finals will then meet within the last at Bayuemas Oval in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, February 2, beginning at 2:30 PM native time.
This is a take a look at what can we anticipate from each of the semi-final video games:South Africa v Australia:Australia has bowled brilliantly all through the event, with Lily Bassingthwaite being the standout, boasting six wickets and an financial system price of two.22. They are going to be hoping their top-order batting begins to fireside.
They’ll must be in prime type for this conflict. The group stage was easy for them, beating Scotland and Nepal simply earlier than a better contest towards Bangladesh, they usually adopted that up with a superb win towards West Indies within the Tremendous Sixes.
They already knew they have been via to the semi-finals earlier than they performed Sri Lanka of their final Tremendous Six match, which can have contributed to them changing into the one semi-finalists to be crushed within the event.
South Africa have been hampered by rain all through the event, and haven’t performed a full 40 overs thus far. It’s tough, then, to evaluate their true type, however then it will likely be equally tough for opponents to organize for his or her batters, contemplating they’ve batted for fewer than 27 overs of their 4 matches mixed.
The bowlers have finished precisely what has been required of them, with captain Kayla Reyneke main the best way, taking 9 wickets with a median financial system price of 4.03. However the knock-out phases will show a sterner check than they’ve confronted to this point.
India vs England:Defending champions India are favorites to retain their crown, with a nine-wicket win over West Indies, an eight-wicket win over Bangladesh, a 60-run win over Sri Lanka, and a 150-run win over Scotland. However now they face England, who’ve made their well beyond a number of large obstacles to get this far, beating Pakistan by six wickets, the USA by eight wickets, and New Zealand by six wickets.
India has some stand-out shining stars – most notably Trisha Gongadi on the high of the batting order and the very good Vaishnavi Sharma, with 12 wickets already within the event together with a hat-trick.
England can be hoping to take away Trisha as quickly as attainable after which have their fingers crossed that the India center order and tail haven’t had the match follow to fend off their very own effective bowling assault, led by spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman, who has taken seven wickets thus far.
With the bat, Davina Perrin has been England’s finest performer, with 131 runs to her identify, and she’s going to search so as to add to that complete. (ANI)
