{"id":63872,"date":"2025-02-03T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63872"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:45:06","slug":"reyneke-botha-and-nini-in-womens-u19-t20-world-cup-team-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63872","title":{"rendered":"Reyneke, Botha, and Nini in Women’s u19 T20 World Cup Team of the Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kayla Reyneke, the captain of South Africa, celebrates the fall of a wicket with her teammates during the ICC u19 Women’s T20 World Cup match between South Africa and Nigeria at Borneo Cricket Ground on 22 January 2025 in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo: Isuru Sameera Peiris\/Gallo Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three South African players -, Kayla Reyneke<\/strong>, Jemma Botha<\/strong>, and Nthabiseng Nini<\/strong> – were selected in the Team of the Tournament<\/strong> after the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup concluded with India<\/strong> beating South Africa<\/strong> in the final at the Bayuemas Oval<\/strong>, in Kuala Lumpur<\/strong>, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The team has representatives from six nations: South Africa, India, England<\/strong>, Australia<\/strong>, Nepal<\/strong>, and Sri<\/strong> Lanka. The champion, India, leads the selections, with four, while South Africa is a close second with three. England has two and Australia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka one player each.<\/p>\n

Reyneke, South Africa’s captain, was named the captain of the side, following her outstanding campaign. The 19-year-old led South Africa with great aplomb. She, also, bagged 11 wickets in five games and oversaw South Africa’s dominant unbeaten run to the final.<\/p>\n

The South African team kicked off its campaign with a 22-run win over New Zealand<\/strong><\/a>, then romped to a 10-wicket win over Samoa<\/strong><\/a>, and overcame<\/a> Nigeria by 41 runs (DLS method)<\/strong> in the group stages.<\/p>\n

The ladies in green and gold beat Ireland by seven wickets<\/strong> <\/a>in the Super Six stage before their match against the USA<\/strong> was abandoned due to inclement weather.<\/p>\n

Jemma Botha enjoyed a wonderful tournament with the bat. Her most important contribution came when she struck a match-winning 37 off 24 balls in the semi-final against Australia<\/strong> <\/a>to propel South Africa into the final for the first time. She was selected to open with India’s Gongadi Trisha<\/strong>, the ICC u19 Women’s World Cup Player of the Tournament.<\/p>\n

Fast bowler Nthabiseng Nini spearheaded South Africa’s bowling attack and was dominant in the powerplay. She finished the tournament with six wickets and was picked as the 12th player.<\/p>\n

At the last edition of the ICC Women’s u19 T20 World Cup, held two years ago in South Africa, the home team’s journey ended in the Super Six stage after they narrowly missed out on a semifinal spot on net run rate. Nonetheless, they had Karabo Meso <\/strong>named in the team of the tournament.<\/p>\n

The Team of the Tournament was selected by a panel comprised of commentators Julia Price<\/strong>, HD Ackerman<\/strong>, and Raunak Kapoor<\/strong>, along with Snehal Pradhan<\/strong>, the ICC Manager of Women’s Cricket.<\/p>\n

ICC u19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 Team of the Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Gongadi Trisha (India)<\/li>\n
  2. \u2060Jemma Botha (South Africa)<\/li>\n
  3. Davina Perrin (England)<\/li>\n
  4. \u2060G Kamalini (India)<\/li>\n
  5. \u2060Caoimhe Bray (Australia)<\/li>\n
  6. \u2060Puja Mahato (Nepal)<\/li>\n
  7. \u2060Kayla Reyneke (c) (South Africa)<\/li>\n
  8. \u2060Katie Jones (wk) (England)<\/li>\n
  9. \u2060Aayushi Shukla (India)<\/li>\n
  10. \u2060Chamodi Praboda (Sri Lanka)<\/li>\n
  11. \u2060Vaishnavi Sharma (India)<\/li>\n
  12. \u2060Nthabiseng Nini (South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Three South African players -, Kayla Reyneke, Jemma Botha, and Nthabiseng Nini – were selected in the Team of the Tournament after the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup concluded with India beating South Africa in the final at the Bayuemas Oval, in Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday. The team has representatives from six nations: South Africa, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}