يبحث عشاق كرة القدم عن موعد والقناة الناقلة لقرعة دوري أبطال إفريقيا وكأس الكونفدرالية، والمقرر لها اليوم، حيث تنتظر الأندية تحديد منافسيها.

ويشارك في دوري أبطال إفريقيا، الأهلي وبيراميدز، حيث يبدأ البطل المتوج في آخر نسخة مشواره من الدور التمهيدي، في حين يشارك الزمالك والمصري البورسعيدي في كأس الكونفدرالية.

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ومن المقرر انطلاق الجولة التمهيدية الأولى في 19 سبتمبر 2025، تليها الجولة التمهيدية الثانية في 17 أكتوبر.

بينما سيبدأ دور المجموعات لكل من دوري أبطال إفريقيا وكأس الكونفدرالية الإفريقية، يوم 21 نوفمبر 2025، فيما تنطلق الأدوار الإقصائية يوم 13 مارس 2026.

وبحسب تصنيف الكاف، فإن الأهلي في صدارة الأندية الإفريقية برصيد 78 نقطة، ويأتي في المركز الثاني صن داونز الجنوب إفريقي بـ62 نقطة.

وفي المركز الثالث الترجي، برصيد 57 نقطة، ورابعًا فريق نهضة بركان المغربي بـ52 نقطة، وفي المركز الخامس يأتي سيمبا التنزاني.

وظهر بيراميدز الذي توج ببطولة دوري أبطال إفريقيا في الموسم الماضي على حساب صن داونز ولأول مرة في تاريخه في المركز السادس برصيد 47 نقطة، وفي المركز السابع يأتي الزمالك بـ42 نقطة، ويتواجد المصري البورسعيدي في المركز 23 برصيد 14 نقطة. موعد قرعة دوري أبطال إفريقيا والكونفدرالية اليوم

تقام قرعة الدور التمهيدي اليوم السبت الموافق 9 أغسطس، في العاصمة التنزانية دار السلام، في تمام الواحدة ظهرًا بتوقيت القاهرة ومكة المكرمة. القناة الناقلة لقرعة دوري أبطال إفريقيا والكونفدرالية

تنقل قرعة دوري أبطال إفريقيا وكأس الكونفدرالية، عبر صفحة الاتحاد الإفريقي لكرة القدم “كاف” على يوتيوب.. طالع لينك القناة من هنا

Arsenal Women have reportedly made football history by agreeing to a record-breaking transfer for Canadian international Olivia Smith, with the fee surpassing £1 million. This extraordinary transfer deal eclipses the previous record of £900,000 paid by Chelsea for U.S. defender Naomi Girma earlier this year.

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  According to the 20-year-old Liverpool forward is poised to become the first player in women’s football to move for a seven-figure sum, setting a new benchmark for the women’s game globally. She joined Liverpool only last summer, arriving from Sporting CP in Portugal for what was then a club-record outlay of just over £200,000.

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  In her debut campaign in the Women’s Super League, the versatile forward wasted little time making an impression. She found the net seven times in 20 league appearances, an output that accounted for nearly one-third of Liverpool’s total goals across the season. Arsenal were among several top clubs to test Liverpool’s resolve with transfer bids, but it took a world-record offer to convince the Merseyside outfit to part ways with their star.

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  Smith’s record-breaking switch carries symbolic weight beyond just numbers. Not since Trevor Francis became the first £1 million male player in 1979, to seal a transfer from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest, has a transfer so clearly signalled a shift in football’s financial landscape. Smith’s move now marks a similar milestone in the women’s game, a sign that top female players are finally beginning to be valued closer to their worth.

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  The Gunners’ willingness to spend big on Smith signals their aggressive strategy as they look to build on their recent Women’s Champions League triumph. This summer has already seen two high-profile arrivals in north London. Chloe Kelly made her transfer from Manchester City permanent in the summer, whereas left-back Taylor Hinds arrived after the expiration of her Liverpool deal. But the acquisition of Smith represents a significant leap in terms of financial commitment and a clear message of intent from the club.

Alejandro Garnacho's future at Manchester United is once again in the spotlight amid talk of a potential move to Serie A champions Napoli.

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Garnacho is one of five prominent United players who have communicated their desire to leave Old Trafford this summer. The Argentina international has fallen out of favour with manager Amorim and has been linked with Serie A champions Napoli, who signed Scott McTominay from the Red Devils last year.

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Garnacho had been tipped to become one of United's leading lights after breaking through under previous boss Erik ten Hag, but he has run into consistency issues over the past season and wasn't included in the starting XI for the Europa League final defeat to Tottenham. Napoli president De Laurentiis has been quoted as saying he wants to recruit the 21-year-old, but transfer guru Fabrizio Romano has poured cold water on those claims.

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As reported by the Daily Mail, De Laurentiis is claimed to have said: "Garnacho's got pace, flair and potential. But that's not even why we want him. We want him because he's at United. Get him out and he becomes twice the player. There's a fault at United that I can't explain."

Romano then responded swiftly with the following message on X: "Napoli president De Laurentiis has not released any statement or interview about Alejandro Garnacho. Napoli are also not working on Garnacho deal at this stage."

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Garnacho has been criticised by United fans over the summer for some questionable actions on social media, recently posting a picture of him wearing an Aston Villa shirt with Marcus Rashford's name on the back. The England international is another player expected to depart Old Trafford this summer.

Coach Andrew McDonald has referenced previous examples of batters being moved into new positions

Andrew McGlashan29-Nov-2023Australia head coach Andrew McDonald has hinted that replacing David Warner may not come down to a straight like-for-like opening batter with a suggestion the order could be reshuffled to accommodate Cameron Green.Green lost his place for the final Ashes Test at The Oval and is expected to remain outside the XI when the Pakistan series starts next month, but McDonald reinforced that he remains a “generational” talent and there is a belief he won’t be out of the side for long.Providing injuries don’t crop up during the Pakistan series – and there remain some question marks over the workload on Mitchell Marsh’s body – the first vacancy could arrive following Warner’s Test retirement which he has earmarked for the SCG Test in early January.Related

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It has been widely assumed that his replacement would come from one of Cameron Bancroft, Marcus Harris or Matt Renshaw, but McDonald referenced previous occasions when an Australia top order has been reshaped with players taking on new roles.”What does Cam Green’s future look like in the Test team? Is it a matter of waiting for Mitch to finish or could there be another spot that opens up over time?” McDonald told SEN radio. “He has batted at six for most of his Test cricket, but he has been a fantastic number four for WA and averages close to 50 in Shield cricket.”There is always the idea that you can potentially shift the order to make room to put your best six batters, or what you see as best six batters, in a certain order.”If there was to be a batter moved into a new position for the series against West Indies in January the potential – and simplest – option would be for Marnus Labuschagne to move up one spot, followed by Steven Smith returning to No. 3. A more left-field route could be a promotion for Travis Head although he is so destructive at No. 5 there will likely be reluctance to that.Cameron Green’s Test returns faded this year•Getty Images”We have seen that in Australian cricket before,” McDonald said. “David Boon went from three to opening. Justin Langer went from three to opening. Shane Watson went from six to opening.”There has been the ability to reshuffle and for that to be successful. But we will leave that to the first Test match in Perth.”Warner is expected to be given his farewell Test series against Pakistan although his selection still needs to be ticked off with the squad likely to be named early next week.Test captain Pat Cummins, who is not a selector, praised Warner as a multiformat great when asked if he deserved a swansong series but added that performance remained highest in the selection criteria. Since 2021, Warner has averaged 28.90 in Tests with one century – the MCG double hundred last season in his 100th appearance.”He’s a great of our game in all formats. So no doubt that’s part of it,” he said. “First and foremost you think of the performance side of things when you are picking a side.”Green, who is currently playing against Queensland in the Sheffield Shield and will line up for the Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra, could be included as the spare batter in the first squad of the season. Green averages 33.69 with the bat and 36.03 with the ball after 24 Tests. He scored his maiden century in Ahmedabad earlier in the year, but since then has made 134 runs at 19.14. He has opted not to play BBL this season after a hectic year where he has barely been home and in order to focus on red-ball skills.After the current round of Shield matches, which are the last before the BBL break, Bancroft, Harris and Renshaw will also get another first-class opportunity when they face Pakistan for the PM’s XI.Bancroft has the most impressive numbers for the season, as he did last summer, but Harris has been the regular spare batter in Australia squads over the last 18 months and Renshaw is a versatile player although struggled on his return to the Test side in the middle order earlier this year albeit in tough conditions in India.

Andre Borovec, Australia’s stand-in head coach, rued losing too many wickets in the first ten overs after his side’s 44-run defeat in the second T20I in Thiruvananthapuram. But at the same time, he lauded the intent shown by the batters throughout the chase.Batting first, India scored a mammoth 235 for 4. In response, Australia were on 104 after ten overs but had lost four wickets. Marcus Stoinis and Tim David kept the fight on by adding 81 off just 38 balls for the fifth wicket, but Australia eventually fell short and are now trailing 2-0 in the five-match series.”It’s just that we were behind a couple more wickets at the halfway mark there, four to one,” Borovec said. “It’s always ifs, buts and maybes, isn’t it? But we just fell behind the game a little bit. We knew we probably didn’t have the breathing space that India had going into those last ten overs.Related

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“One of the key pillars of our game is intent. And you couldn’t fault that throughout the innings. Will there be mistakes made? Of course. But if we’re making mistakes with good intent, good decisions, good plans, and if the execution doesn’t go quite right, well, we’re quite happy to accept that.”Another difference was that India scored 20 or more in an over on four occasions. Australia did so on two. Borovec acknowledged that the bowlers found it difficult to close out the over after they had conceded boundaries on the first two balls.”The first two balls in an over can be quite important in T20 cricket,” he said. “If you’re conceding boundaries on those two balls, it can be difficult to get back. You’ve got less resources at your disposal as you’ve shown a couple of deliveries… if you’ve bowled a bouncer.”What we saw tonight was that at those moments, the Indian players were getting ahead in the count and almost getting a good read on what potential ball might come down at them. I think zeroing in on those first two balls and how we can structure those better – that’s usually a good starting point.”On Sunday, Australia left out Jason Behrendorff, their best bowler in Visakhapatnam, where he picked up 1 for 25 from his four overs even as India chased down 209. It raised questions as to whether he was unfit, but Borovec clarified it was because they wanted to play two spinners keeping in mind the upcoming T20 World Cup, which will be played in the West Indies and the USA where the pitches are expected to be on the slower side.”We’ve got a few things to consider that we need to see different players in different conditions and one of the considerations today was to have a look at two spinners,” he said. “We thought that was going to be a good attacking option for us, so we decided to structure our bowling around that.Australia’s seamers came in for some punishment•Associated Press

“We had a great conversation with Jase about how good his bowling was. Also, when you look back at it, it was probably one of his better bowling performances for Australia. So it was a really tough decision but one we built around the fact that these conditions, we thought, were going to help spin a little bit more than perhaps Vizag.”Given it had rained on Saturday, there wasn’t much help on offer for spinners. And despite dew starting to settle in as early as the seventh over in the first innings, Tanveer Sangha and Adam Zampa helped Australia pull things back. India had raced away to 77 for 1 in the powerplay but could add only 29 in the next five overs.”The irony was when the dew came, we had some nice overs there around about the seventh to the 11th over,” Borovec said. “It just shows that in T20 cricket sometimes things like that happen that go against the grain. We are probably a little bit disappointed with our execution in the first six. And that’s where we thought the sweet spot was for taking wickets and giving our spinners a chance to bowl at some new batters.”I was really proud of that fightback in that early middle-overs period. Then of course the dew came in and it just made it so difficult to execute, but you can’t fault the endeavour and the plans with the bowlers.”Australia are trying out one more thing in this series: Steven Smith at the top of the order. Opening the batting in the first T20I, he was on 24 off as many balls at one point before finishing on 52 off 41. Here, he scored 19 off 16. Borovec, however, was happy with Smith’s approach.”We have got a number of things we’re looking at,” he said. “We’ve got ten games to fit some of that stuff in. Not all of it is possible. One of the things we had in our planning coming into this series was to have a look at Steve up the top. And we’ve had a chance to do that now and again. We’ve been extremely happy with that intent that he’s shown with the bat.”

يستعد منتخب مصر للناشئين، مواليد 2008، لخوض مباراتين وديتين أمام السعودية استعدادًا للمشاركة في بطولة كأس الخليج، قبل خوض منافسات بطولة كأس العالم بعد شهور قليلة على الأراضي القطرية.

ومن المقرر أن تقام بطولة كأس الخليج في مدينة أبها السعودية في الفترة من 28 أغسطس وحتى 9 سبتمبر، ويخوض منتخب مصر البطولة استعدادا لكأس العالم، بعدما تمت دعوته عقب انسحاب دولة الإمارات

بينما سيكون افتتاح بطولة كأس العالم للناشئين تحت 17 عامًا، في قطر، يوم 3 نوفمبر بلقاء منتخب قطر (الدولة المضيفة) أمام إيطاليا، فيما سيُقام النهائي على استاد خليفة الدولي، أحد ملاعب كأس العالم 2022.

ويشارك منتخب مصر ضمن 6 منتخبات عربية تأهلت للبطولة، وهي: “قطر، السعودية، الإمارات، تونس، المغرب، ومصر”.

ويخوض منتخب مصر منافسات البطولة ضمن المجموعة الخامسة، رفقة كل من إنجلترا وفنزويلا وهايتي، حيث يستهل مشواره بمواجهة هايتي يوم 4 نوفمبر على ملاعب أكاديمية أسباير.

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وعلم بطولات أن منتخب الناشئين مواليد 2008 سيلعب وديتين أمام السعودية يومي 21 و24 أغسطس، استعدادًا لكأس الخليج التي يشارك فيها.

ووقع منتخب مصر في المجموعة الثانية مع منتخبات العراق وسلطنة عمان والبحرين، أما منتخب السعودية صاحب الضيافة فجاء على رأس المجموعة الأولى ومعه الثلاثي قطر والكويت واليمن. قائمة منتخب مصر للناشئين في كأس الخليج

حراسة المرمى: عمرو عادل، عمر عبد العزيز، فادي وائل، محمد طارق.

خط الدفاع: نور أشرف، حمزة الدجوي، أدهم فريد، مهند الشامي، فارس فخري، أحمد سمير، معاذ محمد، آدم محمد، آدم شاهين، فارس رمضان.

خط الوسط: عمر كمال، باسل مدحت، محمد حمد، بلال عطية، محمد البنداري، أنس رشدي، ياسين حسام، يوسف تامر، عمر أبوطالب، إبراهيم النجعاوي، أحمد إيهاب، محمد صبيح، عمار السيد، سيف الجبالي، محمد عبد الشافي.

خط الهجوم: حمزة عبد الكريم، عبد العزيز الزغبي، زياد أيوب، زياد الجزار، حمزة ياسين، محمود شاكر. مواعيد مباريات منتخب مصر في كأس الخليج العربي للشبابمصر ضد عمان، الجمعة 29 أغسطس- الرابعة والنصف عصرًا- ملعب مدينة الأمير سلطان بن عبدالعزيز الرياضية.مصر ضد العراق، الإثنين 1 سبتمبر- الرابعة والنصف عصرًا- ملعب مدينة الأمير سلطان بن عبدالعزيز الرياضية.مصر ضد البحرين، الخميس 4 سبتمبر- الرابعة والنصف مساءً- ملعب استاد ضمك.

Western Australia captain Sam Whiteman compiled a brilliant century on a grassy WACA surface, but New South Wales hit back late on day one as the Sheffield Shield resumed after the mid-season break.After being sent in, Whiteman and Cameron Bancroft overcame the tough conditions with a century partnership as they batted into the second session.Back to his favoured format, Whiteman shrugged off a lean BBL and a first ball duck in Thursday’s Marsh Cup against NSW with 107 off 188 balls. He was particularly fluent driving the ball and ruthless against short-pitched bowling.Related

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But WA collapsed to be bowled out for 256 after being well positioned at 164 for 2 with wicketkeeper-batter Josh Philippe left stranded on 52 not out.Bowling tirelessly from the Lillee-Marsh end, veteran seamer Jackson Bird hauled NSW back into the contest to finish with 3 for 37 off 20 overs.Two-time defending champions WA’s only defeat of the season was a 10-wicket thrashing to NSW at the SCG as they sit fractionally behind Tasmania on the table. NSW, who were winless last season, had built momentum before the break to be in striking position of an unexpected final’s tilt.Captain Moises Henriques had no hesitation to bowl on a green-tinged surface and in notably cooler weather than the teams experienced in Thursday’s Marsh Cup, where temperatures hit 43 degrees in Perth.But Whiteman and Bancroft expertly navigated the bowler-friendly conditions with the occasional delivery rearing off the surface. Bancroft was cautious and scored just one off his first 12 balls before he settled with a beautiful cover drive as Whiteman also flourished through the off-side.They judged the length superbly and pounced on stray deliveries from NSW’s quicks, who often bowled too full or short. Chris Tremain and Jack Edwards were unable to consistently bowl in dangerous areas outside off stump with Henriques turning to speedster Liam Hatcher for a spark.He delivered with a vicious spell before lunch and hit speeds of around 140kph, but Bancroft and Whiteman held firm. Offspinner Chris Green was carried away with the surface’s bounce and repeatedly bowled too short as NSW toiled in a barren first session.Batting appeared easier after lunch with Whiteman at ease against Edwards’ rather pedestrian short bowling to rattle past his half-century. Whiteman sped past Bancroft, who edged through slips against the luckless Hatcher.A desperate Henriques turned to Bird, who ended the 107-run partnership by having Bancroft well caught by Edwards at second slip. Bird found a trademark groove as he relentlessly hit a menacing spot outside off-stump to torture Jayden Goodwin.Goodwin, the son of former Zimbabwe Test batter Murray Goodwin, has impressed this season and was preferred at No. 3 over Teague Wyllie, who for much of the past couple of seasons has batted in that position. But Goodwin was all at sea against Bird and nicked off on his 13th delivery for a duck.Once Bird went out of the attack, Whiteman capitalised and charged towards his century on the stroke of tea. He whacked a tiring Hatcher for three consecutive boundaries to move to 97 before guiding him over the slips for six to notch his second Shield ton of the season.But NSW fought back in the final session with WA losing 4 for 8, including Whiteman who was brilliantly run out from a direct throw by Ryan Hackney at square-leg. Whiteman attempted a second run back to the striker’s end, but Hackney charged in from the boundary and left him stunned having just one stump to aim at.NSW were on a roll when Wyllie fell lbw to Edwards for a golden duck, but they rued Green dropping Philippe before he had scored in a sitter at third slip. In a late twist, Matt Kelly and Corey Rocchiccioli were dismissed on the last two balls of the day’s play as WA were bowled out.Having played in the Marsh Cup following an indifferent BBL, left-arm spinner Ashton Agar was overlooked with WA sticking with offspinner Rocchiccioli, who has been a mainstay in their Shield team in recent seasons. Nathan Lyon is not playing for NSW after a hectic Test summer.

Stoinis to remain at Stars until the end of the 2026-27 season and looms as a captaincy candidate after Glenn Maxwell resigned

Alex Malcolm29-Jan-2024Australia allrounder Marcus Stoinis will remain at Melbourne Stars in the BBL after signing a three-year contract extension that will take him through until the end of BBL16 in 2026-27.Stars had several players coming out of contract with Stoinis being the biggest name among them and there had been interest from other clubs to lure him elsewhere, including Perth Scorchers given he is based in Perth and plays his domestic cricket for Western Australia.Stoinis started his BBL career at Scorchers playing three games for them in 2012-13 before moving to Stars the following season and has played 98 games since. He will become the second Stars player to play 100 games for the club next season after Glenn Maxwell played his 100th last season.Related

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Stoinis also looms as a potential captain of the club after Maxwell stood down from the role at the end of last season.The allrounder has been named in Australia’s T20I squad for the upcoming West Indies series and is hopeful to be part of the T20 World Cup squad. But after being left out of the ODI squad he revealed that he will be playing more T20 franchise cricket in the next couple of years and appears unlikely to get another Cricket Australia central contract next season.He is currently playing in the SA20 for Durban’s Super Giants, who are owned by his IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants. He also played in the inaugural Major League Cricket tournament in the US last year for San Francisco Unicorns, a franchise run administratively by representatives from Cricket Victoria, who also oversee the Stars.

Manchester United were offered a chance to hijack Arsenal's transfer move for Viktor Gyokeres for a second week in a row by Sporting CP, but the Swedish striker has made it clear that his preferred destination remains Arsenal. Last week, reports emerged that the Red Devils could swoop in and secure a transfer for Gyokeres after talks between Sporting and the Gunners stalled.

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United, who are still looking to add a No.9 to their squad before the summer transfer window closes on September 1, was given another chance to sign Gyokeres by Sporting CP, according to . The Swedish striker, however, has no intention of heading to Manchester as he remains keen on a move to Arsenal.

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The Red Devils had an opportunity to match Sporting CP's valuation for Gyokeres for the second week in a row as talks with the Gunners have stalled due to disagreement over the terms of payment for the striker's €70 million (£60.6m/$81.4m) fee. While the Portuguese side want the entire sum of money upfront, Arsenal are offering to pay €63.5 million at first and the remaining amount in add-ons.

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According to , the Red Devils made a move for Hugo Ekitike earlier in the window, but the Eintracht Frankfurt forward had his eyes on a Liverpool transfer. A possible swoop for Gyokeres was then discussed, but United have decided that they won't advance on any player unless they are eager to join the club.

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United will jet off to the U.S. to continue with their pre-season preparations and are scheduled to play their first friendly against West Ham at MetLife Stadium on July 26.

The captain held her nerve to steer the team to a significant victory which levelled the T20I series

AAP28-Jan-2024

South Africa’s women beat Australia for the first time ever, claiming a six-wicket win in the second T20I in Canberra.Quality bowling on Sunday helped them hold the hosts to a below-par total of 142 for 6, a total they tracked down with six balls to spare thanks to captain Laura Wolvaardt’s unbeaten half-century.Australia made scoring look tough at Manuka Oval, but South Africa’s openers quickly built the platform they needed to claim the historic win.Wolvaardt (58 not out) and Tazmin Brits (41) added 75 for the first wicket, the former still there to negotiate a potentially tricky final stanza after the tourists lost 3 for 22.It was the 24th time the two nations have met in women’s cricket – across ODIs and T20Is – and the first time South Africa have been victorious. A tied ODI in 2016 was the closest they had come previously. Sunday’s result also squared the multi-format series after Australia won Saturday’s opening contest.Wolvaardt acknowledged what a stepping-stone the result could be for her team as they look towards October’s T20 World Cup.”It’s very special, obviously having never beaten them before in any format or game is something we were looking to change and to do it in their own backyard is incredibly special,” she said.”Especially just with a lot of senior players retiring in the past few years…to have this new dynamic young team just obviously beating the World Champions is something very special and something that hopefully can change our mindset. Hopefully the voodoo is a bit broken now and we can win them on a more regular basis.”Wolvaardt witnessed a mini-collapse when her side fell from 109 for 1 to 110 for 3 in the space of three balls, but steadied things and brought up her half-century to steer them to victory.Brits, who carried her bat through Saturday’s innings in making 59 not out, continued to sizzle, cracking eight fours in another brilliant knock.After winning the toss and batting, expectations were high for Australia after they had chased down 147 for 6 in Saturday’s contest without getting out of second gear.But they struggled to find gaps or land big blows in a stuttering display, with captain Alyssa Healy (29 off 24 balls) and Grace Harris (31 not out off 18) the only players who looked comfortable at the crease.Pace bowler Masabata Klaas was particularly dangerous, taking 2 for 16 from three overs, while spin duo Nonkululeko Mlaba and Chloe Tryon tied things down in the middle oversSuch was South Africa’s suffocating pressure that they held the hosts without a boundary for 29 balls in a crucial period between the 13th and 18th overs.Tahlia McGrath struggled to score quickly for a second straight game, making 23 off 28 deliveries. It was a similar story for Ellyse Perry (18 off 19 balls).Harris hit three fours and a six in her unbeaten 31, with Australia taking 18 runs off Khaka’s final over of the innings to give themselves something to defend.Four of the reigning world champions’ last five losses have come when batting first, a statistic Harris said her side might need to look into.”Chasing, you’ve got the number on the board that you need, and so as a batting group, you can think about how you’re getting the extra boundary ball in the over,” she said.”Maybe there might be a little tweak here or there, or just a learning on conditions earlier or how we’re going to play a bit more aggressive and get a few more runs on the board. But not too much needs to change I don’t think.”