If you glanced at the numbers – 5, 5, 2, 4, 6, 22, 2, 3, 3, 6, 3, you might mistake it for a mobile number, or maybe even a locker code. But in reality, it was the heartbreaking batting card of South Africa Women as they collapsed spectacularly for just 69 runs in 20.4 overs against a clinical England Women outfit in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025.

This wasn’t just a defeat. It was a dismantling – a day South Africa will want to forget quickly, and England will cherish as another chapter of dominance in their white-ball legacy.

Batting Collapse of Epic Proportions

It all began with the toss – England won it and put South Africa in to bat. What followed was an innings that fell apart like dominoes.

Only Sinalo Jafta showed any resistance, top-scoring with 22 runs, while ten other batter

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