South Africa Women vs India Women, 4th T20I, India Women tour of South Africa 2026 - CommentaryRSAW vs INDW, 4th T20I, India Women tour of South Africa 2026 - Commentary

India Women won by 14 runs

INDW

185/5(20)

RSAW

171/9(20)

PLAYER OF THE MATCH

After three consecutive losses, India have pulled one back. The teams will now head to Benoni for the fifth and final T20I on Monday. That's all for now. Goodnight!

Harmanpreet Kaur | India captain: Overall team effort. Everyone came up and contributed. Every partnership mattered a lot. That's what we spoke in team meetings (about showing a good approach). Conditions are really tough to be honest. Outfield is very wet. She is brilliant (Deepti). Someone who can contribute with both (bat and ball). We know series is not in our hands but it's about showing good approach.

Laura Wolvaardt | SA captain: On the losing side today. If we took our chances in the field, would've been chasing 10-20 less. We were in the chase all the way. Our job at the top is to maximise the powerplay as much as we can. Sune batted really well. Just didn't have that batter kicking on. She was great. Exciting game for her (Marx).

Deepti Sharma | Player of the Match: Very pleased. I keep believing in myself that I'll come back hard. All credit to my teammates who believe in me. Line and length are really crucial, whether in wet conditions or normal conditions. Richa batted really well. We were just talking about that we have to finish well.

9.24pm local: Really good effort from India with the ball in difficult conditions. The outfield was very damp and they were wiping the ball after almost every delivery. But they've managed to defend the total of 185 fairly comfortably thanks to a maiden T20I five-for from Deepti Sharma. Wicketless in the first three matches, she turned up and derailed the run-chase with her slow, loopy off-breaks. There was some variable bounce off the pitch and South Africa made the mistake of playing too many cross-batted shots. As many as four dismissals were clean bowled and one LBW. Time for the presentations..

Over 20

171-9

163064(20 runs)

Eliz-mari Marx

21 (13)

Nonkululeko Mlaba

9 (4)

Shafali Verma

2-0-26-1

Over Summary

View all overs

19.6

Shafali Verma to Eliz-mari Marx, FOUR, fired in from Shafali, right in the slot and Marx holds her shape beautifully as she goes inside-out. One bounce and over the ropes. Lovely shot off the final ball but South Africa have fallen 14 short of India's total. The visitors pull one back in this series

19.5

Shafali Verma to Eliz-mari Marx, SIX, lovely step-hit, goes flat and beats the leaping effort at long-off

19.4

Shafali Verma to Eliz-mari Marx, no run, swing and a miss

19.3

Shafali Verma to Nonkululeko Mlaba, 3 runs, sloppy work from the Indians. A couple of overthrows given away. Was punched down to long-on and it should've just been a single. But the throw came in and ricocheted off the stumps

19.2

Shafali Verma to Nonkululeko Mlaba, SIX, cracking strike! Steps out and gets a good piece of it to clear Anushka at long-on

19.1

Shafali Verma to Eliz-mari Marx, 1 run, dances down. hits it straight to long-off and Anushka drops a sitter

Shafali Verma [1.0-0-6-1] is back into the attack

Over 19

151-9

W40W00(4 runs)

Nonkululeko Mlaba

0 (2)

Eliz-mari Marx

10 (9)

Deepti Sharma

4-0-19-5

Over Summary

View all overs

18.6

Deepti Sharma to Nonkululeko Mlaba, no run, driven down to long-on

18.5

Deepti Sharma to Nonkululeko Mlaba, no run, goes off the outside half to backward point

Nonkululeko Mlaba, right handed bat, comes to the crease

18.4

Deepti Sharma to Sekhukhune, out Stumped!! Big smiles on the faces of the Indian players. They're congratulating Deepti on her five-for. Slow and tossed up outside off, makes Sekhukhune reach for it, beats her on the drive and Ghosh does the rest. Sekhukhune st Richa Ghosh b Deepti Sharma 4(3) [4s-1]

Deepti Sharma to Sekhukhune, THATS OUT!! Stumped!!

18.3

Deepti Sharma to Sekhukhune, no run, defended down the pitch

Kranti has hurt herself. She was giving chase off the previous ball and might've rolled her ankle. Physio is attending to her on the sidelines now

18.2

Deepti Sharma to Sekhukhune, FOUR, slow and loopy outside off, it's overpitched and Sekhukhune drives crisply through the gap at point. No one in the deep there