RESULT
7th Place Playoff, Sydney, March 14, 2009, ICC Women's World Cup
(28.3/50 ov, T:76) 76/1

SA Women won by 9 wickets (with 129 balls remaining)

Player Of The Match
3/11
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South Africa crush Sri Lanka to take seventh spot

South Africa crushed Sri Lanka by nine wickets to take seventh place in a battle between the two winless teams in the tournament

Cricinfo staff
14-Mar-2009
South Africa 76 for 1 (Chetty 41*) beat Sri Lanka 75 (van Niekirk 3-11) by nine wickets
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South Africa crushed Sri Lanka by nine wickets to take seventh place in a battle between the two teams without a win in the tournament. Only two Sri Lankan batsmen made it to double-digits as their side folded for 75, a total South Africa sauntered past with more than 21 overs to spare.
After choosing to bat, Sri Lanka were tied down by the South African new-ball bowlers. Opener Chamari Polgampola was bowled in the first over, and only 18 runs came off the next 11. Charlize van der Westhuizen then struck twice in successive overs, before a run-out and a wicket for Alicia Smith left Sri Lanka reeling at 35 for 5. Suwini de Alwis resisted with a 24 but fifteen-year-old legspinner Dane van Niekerk's blows and some more poor running from Sri Lanka meant South Africa had a modest target to chase.
There was an early hiccup for South Africa when opener Yolandi van der Westhuizen was bowled for a duck. However Trisha Chetty and Cri-zelda Brits, South Africa's highest run-getters in the tournament, put on an unbroken 72-run stand to end their side's run of eight games without a win.
South Africa had finished in seventh place in the 2005 World Cup as well, and Sri Lanka had been sixth.

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