{"id":240310,"date":"2025-10-25T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240310\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:27:09","slug":"alana-king-takes-a-record-7-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240310\/","title":{"rendered":"Alana King takes a record 7-18"},"content":{"rendered":"

The win ended South Africa\u2019s five-match winning streak, as defending champion Australia finished top of the league table with six wins in seven games (and a no-result).<\/p>\n

The seven-time champions will take on co-host India in the second semifinal in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.<\/p>\n

South Africa is currently second with five wins in seven games. The Proteas could still finish third, if England (currently third) beats New Zealand in Visakhapatnam on Sunday in its final league game.<\/p>\n

India also plays Bangladesh on Sunday \u2014 the double-header bringing curtains to the league stage of this tournament.<\/p>\n

King halts South Africa\u2019s winning run<\/p>\n

Put into bat on a batter-friendly wicket, South Africa actually made a good start. Wolvaardt put on 32 with opener Tazmin Brits before the sudden slide began.<\/p>\n

\"Australian<\/p>\n

Australian players celebrate their win.Credit: AP<\/p>\n

Megan Schutt got the breakthrough to send the skipper back, while Kim Garth bowled Brits for 6.<\/p>\n

King then came on to bowl with the Proteas at 42-2 and they sank to 60-6 in the next six overs as she picked four wickets without conceding a run.<\/p>\n

She started with a brace in the 12th over \u2014 Sune Luus was out caught for 6, while Marizanne Kapp was out for a four-ball duck.<\/p>\n

King then took another couple of wickets in the 16th over, this time off successive balls \u2014 Annerie Dercksen was bowled, then Chloe Tryon was caught for a golden duck.<\/p>\n

Denied a hat trick, King bowled Sinalo Jafta in the 18th over. Jafta scored 29 off 17 balls.<\/p>\n

King then became the first Australian woman to pick six wickets in a Cricket World Cup \u2014 she bowled Masabata Klaas in the 20th over.<\/p>\n

Nadine de Klerk scored 14, before she was bowled off King to end the Proteas\u2019 innings. King overtook current teammate Ellyse Perry\u2019s 7-22 (against England in 2019) to register Australia\u2019s best bowling figures in women\u2019s ODIs.<\/p>\n

Chasing just 98, Australia made light work of it despite losing Phoebe Litchfield (5) and Perry (0) cheaply.<\/p>\n

Voll and Mooney put on 76 off 65 balls as Australia\u2019s unbeaten run in the tournament (from 2022) stretched to 16 games.<\/p>\n

It was South Africa\u2019s ninth consecutive loss to Australia in the tournament\u2019s history, and it is yet to win a game against the seven-time champions.<\/p>\n

AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The win ended South Africa\u2019s five-match winning streak, as defending champion Australia finished top of the league table…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-240310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}