India women's cricket team in South Africa in 2017–18

India women's tour of South Africa in 2017–18
 
  South Africa women India women
Dates 5 – 24 February 2018
Captains Dane van Niekerk Mithali Raj (WODIs)
Harmanpreet Kaur (WT20Is)
One Day International series
Results India women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs Mignon du Preez (90) Smriti Mandhana (219)
Most wickets Shabnim Ismail (4) Poonam Yadav (7)
Player of the series Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
Twenty20 International series
Results India women won the 5-match series 3–1
Most runs Dane van Niekerk (144) Mithali Raj (192)
Most wickets Shabnim Ismail (6) Anuja Patil (5)
Shikha Pandey (5)
Poonam Yadav (5)
Player of the series Mithali Raj (Ind)

The India women's cricket team played South Africa women's cricket team in February 2018.[1][2] The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and five Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is).[3] The WODI games were part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship.[4] India Women won the WODI series 2–1.[5] India Women won the WT20I series 3–1, after the fourth match was washed out.[6]

Squads

WODIs WT20Is
 South Africa[7]  India[8]  South Africa[7]  India[9]

Jhulan Goswami was ruled out of India's squad for the WT20I series due to a heel injury.[10] Rumeli Dhar was added to India's squad as Goswami's replacement. Dhar last played international cricket for India in 2012.[11]

WODI series

1st WODI

ICC Women's Championship
5 February 2018
10:00
Scorecard
India 
213/7 (50 overs)
v
 South Africa
125 (43.2 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 84 (98)
Marizanne Kapp 2/26 (10 overs)
Dane van Niekerk 41 (87)
Jhulan Goswami 4/24 (9.2 overs)
India Women won by 88 runs
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Umpires: Siphelele Gasa (SA) and Stephen Harris (SA)
Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Points: India Women 2, South Africa Women 0.

2nd WODI

ICC Women's Championship
7 February 2018
10:00
Scorecard
India 
302/3 (50 overs)
v
 South Africa
124 (30.5 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 135 (129)
Suné Luus 1/31 (5 overs)
Lizelle Lee 73 (75)
Poonam Yadav 4/24 (7.5 overs)
India Women won by 178 runs
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Umpires: Lubabalo Gcuma (SA) and Stephen Harris (SA)
Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
  • South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Trisha Chetty (SA) played her 100th WODI.[12]
  • Jhulan Goswami (Ind) became the first bowler to take 200 wickets in WODIs.[13]
  • Points: India Women 2, South Africa Women 0.

3rd WODI

ICC Women's Championship
10 February 2018
10:00
Scorecard
India 
240/9 (50 overs)
v
 South Africa
241/3 (49.2 overs)
Deepti Sharma 79 (112)
Shabnim Ismail 4/30 (9 overs)
Mignon du Preez 90* (111)
Ekta Bisht 1/38 (10 overs)
South Africa Women won by 7 wickets
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Umpires: Siphelele Gasa (SA) and Lubabalo Gcuma (SA)
Player of the match: Mignon du Preez (SA)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to bat
  • Pooja Vastrakar (Ind) made her WODI debut.
  • Veda Krishnamurthy became the youngest player for India Women to score 1,000 runs in WODIs.[14]
  • Points: South Africa Women 2, India Women 0.

WT20I series

1st WT20I

13 February 2018
13:00
Scorecard
South Africa 
164/4 (20 overs)
v
 India
168/3 (18.5 overs)
Dane van Niekerk 38 (31)
Anuja Patil 2/23 (4 overs)
Mithali Raj 54* (48)
Moseline Daniels 1/16 (4 overs)
India Women won by 7 wickets
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Umpires: Siphelele Gasa (SA) and Lubabalo Gcuma (SA)
Player of the match: Mithali Raj (Ind)

2nd WT20I

16 February 2018
13:00
Scorecard
South Africa 
142/7 (20 overs)
v
 India
144/1 (19.1 overs)
Suné Luus 33 (32)
Poonam Yadav 2/18 (4 overs)
Mithali Raj 76* (61)
Moseline Daniels 1/21 (4 overs)
India Women won by 9 wickets
Buffalo Park, East London
Umpires: Siphelele Gasa (SA) and Stephen Harris (SA)
Player of the match: Mithali Raj (Ind)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Mithali Raj (Ind) became the first player to score four consecutive half-centuries in WT20Is.[15]

3rd WT20I

18 February 2018
09:45
Scorecard
India 
133 (17.5 overs)
v
 South Africa
134/5 (19 overs)
Harmanpreet Kaur 48 (30)
Shabnim Ismail 5/30 (3.5 overs)
Suné Luus 41 (34)
Pooja Vastrakar 2/21 (4 overs)
South Africa Women won by 5 wickets
Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Umpires: Lubabalo Gcuma and Stephen Harris
Player of the match: Shabnim Ismail (SA)

4th WT20I

21 February 2018
13:00
Scorecard
South Africa 
130/3 (15.3 overs)
v
Lizelle Lee 58* (38)
Deepti Sharma 2/33 (3 overs)
No result
Centurion Park, Centurion
Umpires: Siphelele Gasa (SA) and Stephen Harris (SA)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Rain during South Africa Women's innings prevented any further play.

5th WT20I

24 February 2018
13:00
Scorecard
India 
166/4 (20 overs)
v
 South Africa
112 (18 overs)
Mithali Raj 62 (50)
Marizanne Kapp 1/22 (4 overs)
Marizanne Kapp 27 (34)
Shikha Pandey 3/16 (3 overs)
India Women won by 54 runs
Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town
Umpires: Siphelele Gasa (SA) and Lubabalo Gcuma (SA)
Player of the match: Mithali Raj (Ind)
  • South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.

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