Brits turns up the heat! Proteas pummel Pakistan before rain strikes
Tazmin Brits’s scintillating century dominated a record opening partnership of 260 as the Proteas Women dominated the first innings to post a daunting total of 292-3 in the second one-day international against Pakistan at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Friday.
Brits finished with a magnificent, career-best 171 not out from just 141 balls – her sixth ODI century – while captain Laura Wolvaardt made exactly 100 from 129 balls with 10 fours.
Rain drove the players from the field after 41 overs with the total on 238-0 and the match was reduced to 46 overs with Brits on 133 and Wolvaardt on 93 but the break did nothing to their rhythm with Wolvaardt displaying her effortless style and enjoying the show at the other end.
Right hander Brits was unrelenting in her assault against the home team’s battery of four spinners striking 20 fours and four sixes during her second century in consecutive matches following her match-winning, unbeaten 101 in the first match of the series at the same venue on Tuesday.
Tazmin Brits continues her blinding knock! 💪
— Proteas Women (@ProteasWomenCSA) September 19, 2025
Composed, powerful, and simply spectacular. What an extraordinary display of batting! 🇿🇦🔥 #AlwaysRising #WozaNawe 📸: @TheRealPCB pic.twitter.com/4He0jIKsGO
The openers were just six runs short of breaking their own national partnership record for any wicket when the rain came but soon marched past the 243 they added against Bangladesh in Benoni in December 2023 and well past the 224 compiled by Johmari Logtenberg and Mignon du Preez against the Netherlands in 2007.
Pakistan’s decision to include an extra spinner in their starting line-up made little sense when they chose to bowl first on a surface offering little assistance to any of the bowlers and they duly suffered with offspinner Omaima Sohail conceding 36 from just five overs.
Brits’ stroke play undoubtedly contributed to a deteriorating display in the field from Pakistan with misfields, two dropped catches and fluffed run out chances not helping their attempts to curtail the scoring.
Wolvaardt was always happy to play a supporting role while Brits was reverse and slog-sweeping the spinners who had no answer to her power and placement.
South Africa made four changes from the first game which they won by eight-wickets at the same venue on Tuesday in which Brits and Marizanne Kapp (120*) scored unbeaten centuries chasing Pakistan’s total of 255-4.
Miane Smit replaced Sune Luus at No 3 and Karabo Meso took the ‘keeper’s gloves from Sinalo Jafta. Bowlers Masabata Klaas and Nadine de Klerk were also included.
PAKISTAN: Muneeba Ali, Omaima Sohail, Sidra Amin, Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana (captain), Natalia Pervaiz, Sidra Nawaz (wkt), Rameen Shamim, Diana Baig, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal
SOUTH AFRICA: Laura Wolvaardt (captain), Tazmin Brits, Miane Smit, Marizanne Kapp, Nondumiso Shangase, Annerie Derckson, Karabo Meso (wkt), Nadine de Klerk, Chloe Tryon, Masabata Klaas, Tumi Sekhukhune.
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