Devnarain Hails Csa's Vision As Sa Qualify For First Icc U19 Women's T20 World Cup

With each passing ICC tournament, South Africas female cricketers are rewriting the script with their U19 team now following the example set by the senior team.

The Proteas have reached back-to-back ICC Womens T20 World Cup finals, runners-up in 2023 and 2024 after the greatest sustained run of results in their history, now the U19s have followed suit, making it to the final of the ICC U19 Womens T20 World Cup 2025, beating Australia by five wickets in the semi-finals to do so.

It extends their perfect run in Malaysia, winning all three group games, as well as their only completed Super Six match.

For coach Dinesha Devnarain, a former Protea herself, the impressive form is the result of a long-term vision by Cricket South Africa which is now starting to pay off.

She explained: The moment is bigger than I could ever imagine. As a nation, I must give credit to Cricket South Africa, the policies that they have put in place, its easy to say, what are we doing right now? but its probably due to things that have been done over the last five to 10-year plans.