West Indies win battle of the outgoers, New Zealand keep South Africa in

Sundays in Paarl unspool to a sacred rhythm. Church rules the morning, keeping the streets as they were before sunrise. Lunchtime prompts an ooze of life, which thickens to a trickle in the afternoon, swelling into a slow flow in the evening.

Cricket is subject to this template. Put a match at Boland Park on a Sunday morning and the grass banks will remain largely vacant, even the pools of shade under the trees - no small thing in a proper cricket town where the heat rises, dry and dense, from dawn, stays until long after dusk, and does it all again tomorrow in incandescent glory.

Even an occasion featuring Faf du Plessis, James Vince, Kyle Verreynne, Tabraiz Shamsi, Ben Dunk and Imran Tahir, a game in the MSL in December 2019, failed to attract many Paarl punters because it started before the hymns had risen into the sapphire sky of a beautiful Sunday morning.

Come back at 3 pm, the crowd might have told the players between verses of those hymns. Like the women's T20 World Cup did on Sunday, for the last time in Paarl. This crowd had seen New Zealand bowled out for 76 and 67, the latter on Monday by a South Africa team in pressing need of a win after losing to Sri Lanka. They had seen Alyssa Healy hit 55 off 38 and Alice Capsey club 51 off 22. They had seen Ash Gardner claim 5/12, and Sophie Ecclestone twice take three wickets at less than a run a ball - a feat Amelia Kerr, Sarah Glenn, Cara Murray and Nonkululeko Mlaba accomplished once each.

What would West Indies and Pakistan give them to see in