Anrich Nortje's Proteas contract omission explained: 'We respect his decision'

When 195* plays 184* by individual batters in a 50-over game, you know you're in for a special contest, and that was the case in the third and final ODI between the Proteas and Sri Lanka in Potchefstroom on Wednesday.

Proteas' women's skipper Laura Wolvaardt will have every right to look back at her brilliant knock, the highest by a South African women batter in women's ODI cricket and the second highest by a South African cricketer in ODI cricket, with pride and joy.

Her magnificence at the crease in her flawless knock of 184* - just four runs short of Gary Kirsten's famous 188 against United Arab Emirates at the 1996 World Cup - meant Sri Lanka needed to chase down 302, the highest Women's ODI chase in history, and at 26/4, it looked a mountain too high to scale.