After South Africa registered a dominating win over Bangladesh in their last group stage match to reach the semi-finals a funny incident occurred in the press conference. The South African opener, Laura Wolvaardt wasn’t able to find a reporter, who was asking the question at the presser and it left everyone in splits. South African women will be facing England women in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2023. They defeated Bangladesh women by 10 wickets to reach the knockout stage.
In the first innings, the South African team restricted Bangladesh to a below-par total of 113 runs only captain Nigar Sultana managed to reach 30 runs mark. Then in the chase, both the openers were enough to do the light work. Laura Wolvaardt was the aggressor in the match-winning partnership with her opening partner, Tazmin Brits.
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The duo finished off the match in 17.5 overs of the innings. Laura Wolvaardt played an unbeaten knock of 66 off 56 and her fellow partner scored 50 off 51. After the match-winning performance, Laura was seen attending teh press conference. She was asked several questions about their preparation for the big semi-final game coming up against England.
At the same time, one of the reporters asked a question related to the semi-finals but Laura was finding it difficult to spot him. In the post-match press conference, Laura Wolvaardt was asked about England’s batting strength. She took some time to figure out where the voice is coming from.
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Laura Wolvaardt even inquired fellow reporters where the reporter is. Then the reporter asked Laura whether she is able to listen to him or not. Laura replied that the reporter is audible but she couldn’t figure out where the person is. Everyone in the room burst out laughing when they got to know that the journalist was sitting at his home and was on a Zoom call.
Here is the video of the incident:
This is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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