Proteas Women skipper wants calm heads heading to final ODI

The hosts levelled the matters in Wellington yesterday after an inspired performance by captain Amelia Kerr, who posted an unbeaten 179 to lead them to victory after South Africa had won the first match.

Wolvaardt says her troops must not drop their heads and should approach the series decider with a fresh mindset.

"Obviously, there's a lot on the line on saturday. We have to take a day and reflect on what's happened, but also not read too much into it. I think Kerr played an excellent innings, and Nades almost caught her first ball. I think if she had taken that catch, it would have been a different ball game — we win that game with many overs to spare," said Wolvaardt

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"So we can't read too much into it. I think we can all maybe do small things better as a group — take our chances here and there, maybe put more pressure on the middle. Games like that always comes down to the last over, and you're going to look for small things here and there — four runs I could have saved here, one run I could've scored more. But ja, it's small margins and we just need to be better and show up in the next game."

She was also very pleased with their own batting display despite ending up on the wrong side of the result. She played a big innings of 79 runs with Chloe Tryon and Suné Luus contributing 52 and 40 respectively. Anneke Bosch was the pick of the Proteas Women batters with 91 as they finished on 346. Wolvaardt was happy with the team effort. 

Conversely, the skipper believes they can do a lot better with their bowling to try and slow down the run rate even when wickets are few and far between. She says they conceded way too many boundaries at a crucial phase of the match.