{"id":184228,"date":"2026-06-22T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=184228"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:10:51","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-2026-marizanne-kapp-fights-through-illness-to-hand-india-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=184228","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026: Marizanne Kapp fights through illness to hand India first loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71133111\">Marizanne Kapp belongs to that rare species in cricket. The genuine all-rounder. Two players in one.<\/p>\n<p>If she doesn\u2019t get you with the ball, she will with the bat. On certain days, she will cause enough damage with the ball, and then more with the bat.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was such a day. At the receiving end of it was India. And it was potentially the most important match of Group A in the T20 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Kapp disrupted India\u2019s flying start, by cleanbowling its best batter Smriti Mandhana in just the third over. The South Africans then kept the rest of the Indian strokemakers in check.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Proteas wobbled at the start, thanks to another superb piece of bowling from the young Shree Charani, Kapp, coming in at two drop, batted deep enough to guide her side to a crucial win at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably the best T20 innings that I have played, especially against the quality Indians attack on this specific wicket, that probably suits them a bit more,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we know it is always a fight against India. Doing well against India feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She wasn\u2019t, however, feeling well before the match, Kapp revealed. \u201cI was actually a little bit ill in the warm-up,\u201d she said. \u201cI just didn\u2019t feel well at all. I went into the change room and even cried a bit. It was just a wonderful game of cricket for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said her third-wicket stand with Tazmin Brits, who was playing her first game of the tournament, was important. \u201cI think the biggest thing at that stage was just getting a bit of a partnership,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is sometimes so difficult batting those periods of a T20 game because you almost can\u2019t go too hard, as you can\u2019t afford to lose another wicket,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>About expressing her emotions on the ground, she said: \u201cPeople always say I am so angry when I play cricket. Show me a bowler who is going to smile when somebody scores a six. I actually get annoyed at bowlers smiling at getting hit for sixes and fours or bowling wide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Muzumdar confident India can bounce back<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Indian coach Amol Muzumdar believes India could bounce back from the disappointing defeat to South Africa. \u201cWe knew it was a crunch game,\u201d he said. \u201cYou need to give credit to South Africa and Marizanne Kapp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that it was not the end of the tournament. India still has the matches against Bangladesh and Australia coming up. \u201cThere is no doubt in my mind that if we play to our potential, we can be on the right side of those two games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>About India\u2019s poor fielding, he said, \u201cRadha has been an exceptional fielder, I think a world class fielder. Those two catches were there, but things happen on a cricket field. Sometimes things go right, sometimes things go wrong. She is a strong character, and I am sure somewhere in this tournament she will make up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jun 22, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/marizanne-kapp-illness-india-vs-south-africa-womens-t20-world-cup-2026-allrounder-anger-emotions\/article71133111.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marizanne Kapp belongs to that rare species in cricket. The genuine all-rounder. Two players in one. If she doesn\u2019t get you with the ball, she will with the bat. On&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782166251_image201.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":183667,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=183667","url_meta":{"origin":184228,"position":0},"title":"India \u2018Kapp\u2019itulates as South Africa wins by six wickets in Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"June 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"They all got starts. 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