Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nSouth Africa wrapped up the T20 series against Ireland with a game to spare as they won by 65 runs in Paarl.<\/p>\n
It was an improved showing from Ireland after their 105-run reverse in Cape Town on Friday, but they would fall short once again in the three-match series.<\/p>\n
South Africa won the toss and opted to bat with Sune Luus and Faye Tunnicliffe proving a productive opening partnership.<\/p>\n
Ireland made a breakthrough in the 10th over as Luus was caught by Rebecca Stokell from Aimee Maguire’s delivery on 37 runs.<\/p>\n
Tunnicliffe had reached her half century when bowled lbw by Maguire who then removed South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt on 22.<\/p>\n
Dane van Niekerk produced a fine stand of 41 that included three sixes before being taken by Arlene Kelly, while Marizanne Kapp fell to Orla Prendergast on 16.<\/p>\n
However, 16 from Chloe Tryon and seven from Nadine de Klerk pushed the South Africa tally out to 201-5 at the end of their innings.<\/p>\n
Ireland got off to a slow start with Tryon taking the wicket of Ireland captain Gaby Lewis lbw on 19 before bowling Amy Hunter for 14 in the space of four balls.<\/p>\n
It left the visitors with a huge task and while Orla Prendergast and Leah Paul offered resistance, they could not reel in the hosts’ tally with Paul bowled by Nonkululeko Mlaba for 40.<\/p>\n
Prendergast passed the half century mark which included Ireland’s only six of the day, but it was not enough with South Africa winning by 65 runs.<\/p>\n
The third and final T20 match takes place in Benoni on Wednesday before the start of the one-day series in East London on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second Twenty20 international, Paarl South Africa 201-5 (20 overs): Tunnicliffe 51, van Niekerk 41; Maguire 3-43 Ireland 136-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-304416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}