All-rounder Eliz-Mari Marx top-scored with a half-century to guide the CSA Women’s Emerging to a three-wicket victory over Namibia in the third and final 50-over match, to win the away series 2-1 at the High Performance Oval in Windhoek on Saturday, 12 July 2025.
Marx recorded a 65-ball 64, including nine fours and one six, in South Africa’s successful chase, the majority of her runs coming from a 78-run partnership with no. 7 Elihle Luyanda, after Kayla Reyneke had claimed top bowling figures of three for 32 in the visitor’s fielding effort to restrict the hosts to 205/9.
The sides had come into the deciding 50-over match with a win apiece, Namibia first through the gates with a 100-run win primarily courtesy a 171-run second-wicket partnership between Namibian opener Suné Wittmann (68 off 95) and Yasmeen Khan (145* off 134 deliveries) the mainstays in the 274/5 innings after being put in to bat first, on Tuesday, 8 July.
Caitlin Wyngaard (3 for 42 off 10 overs) and Alex Candler (2 for 38 in 10) were SA’ best bowlers in a tough innings, after which the visitors were bowled out for an under-par 174 in 41 overs. Candler (42) and Nicole de Klerk’s (43) 78-run opening partnership was the best of a disappointing innings.
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Alex Candler and Delmi Tucker produced superb centuries in the second encounter last Thursday, to power South Africans to a morale-boosting 228-run victory in the second 50-over match, to level the three-match series at 1-all.
Tucker struck an explosive 72-ball 100 (15 fours) in the top-order while Candler’s composed 107 off 134 (11 fours, 1 six) anchored the SA innings to a formidable 364/4 before an all-round bowling display by the tourists dismissed the Capricorn Eagles for 136 in 29.2 overs.
Candler was the 50-over series’ best batter, accumulating 172 runs in her 3 innings to edge Namibia’s Khan (267 runs), who recorded the highest individual score for the home side, her efforts for the hosts boosted by Mwatile Mekelaye’s 3/28 for the best bowling innings in the 50-over series.
Wyngaard led the wickets column with a total of 6 scalps, with her best effort of 43/3 in the first encounter between the African neighbours, and South Africa set the highest team score in a match, their 364/4 on Thursday having set the visitors up for the series win.
The preceding four-match T20 series had seen South Africa open up a two-nil lead before Namibia found their balance, coming from behind to secure a shared series, two matches each.
Jenna Evans was SA Emerging’s best batter in the T20 series, making a combined 92 runs off 88 deliveries in her three innings, and seemingly confident whether opening the innings or coming in to bat down the order.
Leah Jones secured the most wickets in the T20 competition, her six wickets in three innings capped in a brilliant spell by the tournament’s best-bowling innings of four wickets for eight runs, in the opening match.
CSA Emerging Win the 50-over Series 2-1 at the High Performance Oval in Windhoek
Tue 8 July, 1st 50-over: Namibia beat CSA Emerging by 100 runs
Thu 10 July, 2nd 50-over: CSA Emerging beat Namibia by 228 runs
Sat 12 July, 3rd 50-over: CSA Emerging beat Namibia by 3 wickets
Namibia and CSA Emerging Women’s Academy share the T20 International Series 2-All at the High Performance Oval in Windhoek
Wed 2 July, 1st T20I: CSA Emerging beat Namibia by 33 runs
Thu 3 July, 2nd T20: CSA Emerging beat Namibia by 6 wickets
Sat 5 July, 3rd T20: Namibia beat CSA Emerging by 3 wickets
Sun 6 July, 4th T20: Namibia beat CSA Emerging by 7 wickets
CSA Women’s Emerging Academy Squad – Tour to Namibia
Alexandra Candler (Hollywoodbets Dolphins)
Jenna Evans (DP World Lions)
Nicole de Klerk (Hollywoodbets Dolphins)
Gandhi Jafta (Fidelity Titans)
Leah Jones (World Sports Betting Western Province)
Mona-Lisa Legodi (Fidelity Titans)
Simoné Lourens (Fidelity Titans)
Eliz-Mari Marx (Fidelity Titans)
Luyanda Nzuza (Fidelity Titans)
Kgomotso Rapoo (DP World Lions)
Verunissa Reddy (Knights)
Kayla Reyneke (World Sports Betting Western Province)
Oluhle Siyo (World Sports Betting Western Province)
Delmi Tucker (World Sports Betting Western Province)
Caitlyn Wyngaard (World Sports Betting Western Province)
Original Copy: Cricket South Africa, with editing by gsport
Main Photo Caption: South Africa Emerging celebrate Caitlyn Wyngaard having removed Namibia danger woman Yasmeen Khan, caught Kayla Reyneke, for a duck in Saturday’s one-day series concluding match in Windhoek on Saturday, 12 July, 2025. Photo: CSA
Photo 2 Caption: All-rounder Eliz-Mari Marx top-scored with a half-century to guide the SA to a three-wicket victory over Namibia, to win the away series 2-1 Saturday. Photo: CSA
