Australian women vs South African Women Predictions: South Africa are underdogs but have the potential to cause upset

South Africa Women will be facing off against Australian Women in the second final game of the Women's T20 World Cup held in South Africa. The teams have had very contrasting runs to reach this stage. This game will determine who will become the world champions for the first time. Who will win?

Australia form

Australia has been spotless in the competition so far. They have won four out of four group-stage matches. Their most impressive win was their victory against India in the semi-final game. Being the group leader and highest-ranked team in the world Australia have more firepower than South Africa on paper. But Australia must not take South Africa likely who has beaten England in the semi-finals. This is Australia's seventh consecutive finals appearance. They have already defeated South Africa in the group stages and will be looking to do the same to lift the trophy. In the previous game against India, Aussie women performed well with the bat once again. The team scored 172 runs with the fall of four wickets and won the tightly contested game by 5 runs. Beth Mooney scored the half-century in the game and Captain Meg Lanning missed out on a half-century by 1 run but was significant in Australia's innings. Gardener and Brown took two Indian wickets each to win the game. The team will expect a dominating performance and win the T20 world cup.

Australia Lineup

Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning (c), Ashleigh Gardner, Ellyse Perry, Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, Georgia Wareham, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown

South Africa form

South Africa comes into this game on the back of a 6-run win against England. They won two out of four games in the group stages and come to the semi-finals because of their higher net run rate. They started the tournament with a shocking loss against Sri Lanka. They lost another group game to group leaders and finalists in Australia. Tazmin Brits are coming into this game on the back of a good run of form scoring back-to-back 50 runs in two games. She scored 50 against Bangladesh and 68 runs against England. She even scored 45 runs when they met Australia in the group stages. Her opening partner Laura Wolvaardt's unbeaten 66 against Bangladesh and 53 against England will give them great confidence. The opening batters are scoring most of the runs and providing a stable platform for the batters coming next. On the bowling front, Ayobonga Khaka took 4 wickets in the semi-finals against England. Ismail pitched in again with three wickets. A coherent performance is required by the team to win against Australia. South Africa is going as the underdog but they have shown time and again what they can do.

South Africa Predicted Lineup

Tazmin Brits, Laura Wolvaardt, Marizanne Kapp, Sune Luus (C), Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Anneke Bosch, Sinalo Jafta, Shabnim Ismail, Ayobonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba

Expert betting tips

The pitch will assist batters but it will also help the spinners. Turn and bounce is plenty on this track which can be exploited. Teams will prefer to defend a total on this pitch as the trend goes. The average first innings score on this pitch is 144 runs. As both teams is in good scoring form, we expect a high-scoring game and South Africa to come out on top.