{"id":75298,"date":"2024-10-19T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/proteas-semifinal-triumph-is-good-for-womens-cricket"},"modified":"2024-10-19T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T12:46:00","slug":"proteas-semifinal-triumph-is-good-for-womens-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/proteas-semifinal-triumph-is-good-for-womens-cricket","title":{"rendered":"Proteas semifinal triumph is good for women’s cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>About 20 minutes had passed since the winning runs were struck and Marizanne Kapp was still seated in the same place in the South African team\u2019s dugout, padded up, waiting to bat.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look like you\u2019re ready to go and bat still,\u201d joked her teammate Chloe Tryon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen do we play again,\u201d Kapp asked?<\/p>\n

\u201cSunday,\u201d Tryon replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m preparing for Sunday,\u201d said Kapp.<\/p>\n

That response, from the country\u2019s greatest female cricketer, summed up the mentality of this Proteas team.<\/p>\n

This job is far from done. It was a sentiment expressed more than once by the captain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we still have that one big hurdle,\u201d said Laura Wolvaardt.<\/p>\n

Yet the job they\u2019d just completed, defeating one of modern sport\u2019s greatest teams, was a monumental one. The ramifications were resonating in the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs painful as Thursday\u2019s defeat was for them, even the Australians felt that from a wider perspective the outcome would benefit the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it turns out to be a New Zealand vs South Africa [final] it\u2019s going to be cool to see a fresh winner of that trophy and show how far the women\u2019s game has come,\u201d said Australian captain Alyssa Healey.<\/p>\n

She was forced to sit out Thursday\u2019s match after rupturing a tendon in her right foot and her face as South Africa eased to victory illustrated the oddity of what was unfolding in front of her.<\/p>\n

Australia has won six of the eight women\u2019s T20 World Cups and had been on a 15-match winning streak in the competition dating to the 2020 event they hosted.<\/p>\n

It was in that tournament that they\u2019d suffered their last defeat, to India.<\/p>\n

India and England were expected to be the major threats to the Australians in this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n

As with men\u2019s cricket, the women\u2019s game is increasingly dominated by the same \u201cBig three\u201d who have the greater financial resources to back the sport.<\/p>\n

Those three nations host the most lucrative franchise competitions, the Women\u2019s Premier League in India, the Hundred in England the Big Bash in Australia.<\/p>\n

Those tournaments have players from around the world featuring in them.<\/p>\n

Wolvaardt and Kapp are contracted in all three competitions and the exposure they\u2019re getting to different styles of play and coaching methods is benefiting, in their case, the Proteas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe investment and the opportunities there are to play cricket around the world in different conditions and at all times of the year has done great things for the world game. We\u2019re seeing teams benefit from that, which is awesome,\u201d said Healey.<\/p>\n

Though not as flush with cash as those countries, South Africa has invested heavily in the women\u2019s game in the past decade, increasing professional contracts from six in 2014 to 66 this year.<\/p>\n

The impact of sponsors such as Momentum \u2014 who made contracting women\u2019s players part of their commercial backing for Cricket SA \u2014 and lately Hollywoodbets \u2014 which is sponsoring the domestic competitions \u2014 has been significant.<\/p>\n

Kapp and Wolvaardt are among the world\u2019s top players and South Africa’s qualification for a second consecutive World Cup final will be a major source of inspiration for young players aiming to strap on pads and attempt to sweep like Anneke Bosch or hit a cover drive like Wolvaardt.<\/p>\n

At international level, women\u2019s cricket needed Thursday.<\/p>\n

While everyone has rightly noted the gap with Australia had closed and the standards had improved, it needed South Africa to win in such dominant fashion to show those sentiments were true.<\/p>\n

The tournament needed it as well. Though attendance at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium was small, the noise emanating from the stands every time Bosch or Wolvaardt struck a boundary was loud and the opinions voiced on social media highlighted how viewers were desperate for something different.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prospect of potentially a new winner for this tournament is hugely exciting,\u201d said Healy.<\/p>\n

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