South Africa set to play Women’s World Cup final ‘afresh’ against India? Here’s what their captain said…

India have faced South Africa thrice and have lost each of their three matches to the Proteas since 2017 – which also includes their narrow three-wicket loss at Visakhapatnam earlier in the league stage. Laura Wolvaardt praised the Women in Blue to be a very strong team and spoke about Jemimah Rodrigues’ incredible 127 not out against Australia in the semifinal to prove her point.

“Knockout cricket is completely different to league cricket. We’ve seen people are able to do some very special things in knockout games like we saw from Jemi (Jemimah Rodrigues) the other night. I don’t think we’re going to be looking into our group game against them,” Wolvaardt told the media here on Saturday.

“We know we have to play some really good cricket. They’re a really strong side and have just come off of a really good game as well, so they’ll be high on confidence. We can’t sort of bring any of our history into this game, whether it would be finals that we’ve lost or games that we’ve won against India, we’re just really trying to erase all of that stuff and start completely afresh,” she added.