{"id":890761,"date":"2026-09-13T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890761\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:40:12","slug":"anneke-bosch-helps-south-africa-double-the-lead-over-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890761\/","title":{"rendered":"Anneke Bosch helps South Africa double the lead over Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anneke Bosch put in an all-round performance to lay the platform for South Africa&#8217;s thumping 64-run victory over Zimbabwe in the <a class=\"text-cbTextLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cricbuzz.com\/live-cricket-scores\/159985\/rsaw-vs-zimw-2nd-t20i-south-africa-women-tour-of-zimbabwe-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second T20I of the five-match series<\/a> at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. Bosch hit 12 fours enroute to a scintillating 65 off 31, and then returned to pick two wickets as Zimbabwe folded cheaply in chase. <\/p>\n<p>Bosch led South Africa&#8217;s charge with the bat, adding a 64-run stand with Nondumiso Shangase for the second wicket. Her whirlwind effort meant South Africa maintained a scoring rate of 10-an-over until the halfway stage when she was dismissed. Zimbabwe&#8217;s hopes of gaining respite through that dismissal were thwarted through the fourth-wicket partnership between Faye Tunnicliffe and Annerie Dercksen worth 88 runs from just 50 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Tunnicliffe finished unbeaten on 52 from just 34 balls &#8211; an innings laced with three fours and four sixes. Dercksen made 36* off just 20, with three fours and two sixes. Together they added 67 off the last 30 deliveries to blow the hosts out of the water. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa struck twice in the Powerplay: Eliz-mari Marx cleaned up opener Sharne Mayers in the first over and Nthabiseng Nini had Kelis Ndhlovu caught off her own bowling to reduce Zimbabwe to 32\/2 in the sixth over. But it was 20-year-old off-spinner Seshnie Naidu who did the dismantling of the chase with wickets in a heap through the middle. She bowled a double-wicket seventh over to take out Beloved Biza and Loreen Tshuma and then sent opener Nyasha Gwanzura packing in the ninth. Naidu finished with exceptional bowling figures of 3-26. <\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe meandered for a bit from 51\/5 before Bosch struck twice in two overs and pushed the hosts further into the abyss at 84\/7. Christine Mutasa and and captain Nomvelo Sibanda batted out the remaining 6.1 overs and added 45 runs in it, but Zimbabwe still fell way short of the target. <\/p>\n<p>Brief Scores: South Africa 193\/3 in 20 overs (Anneke Bosch 65, Faye Tunnicliffe 52*; Annerie Dercksen 36*; Michelle Mavunga 1-25) beat Zimbabwe 129\/7 in 20 overs (Christine Mutasa 30*; Seshnie Naidu 3-26, Anneke Bosch 2-5) by 64 runs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anneke Bosch put in an all-round performance to lay the platform for South Africa&#8217;s thumping 64-run victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[10968,15199,460357,64,63,740,140830,460356,85,72914],"class_list":["post-890761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-10968","tag-2nd-t20i","tag-anneke-bosch","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-south-africa-women","tag-south-africa-women-tour-of-zimbabwe","tag-sports","tag-zimbabwe-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890761","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=890761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}