England vs South Africa: LIVE Women’s T20 World Cup latest score and updates as Smith takes early wicket


England vs South Africa: LIVE Women’s T20 World Cup latest score and updates as Smith takes early wicket
England take the early wicket of Tazmin Brits at Sharjah (AP)

England opened their T20 Women’s World Cup with a win over Bangladesh in Sharjah, but will have a different challenge against South Africa.

Heather Knight’s side turned to spin to beat Bangladesh, with all four spinners including in the match squad while their batting struggled slightly in the slow conditions on a used pitch in Sharjah.

Danni Wyatt-Hodge top-scored with 41, but the rest of England’s batters were arguably wasteful with their wickets and trying to score quickly rather than craft and innings and will have to be more clinical against South Africa.

South Africa beat the West Indies by 10 wickets in a game that had been expected to be one of the more difficult in the group.

The entire tournament has been a low-scoring affair, but South Africa chased 118 to win without losing a wicket against the West Indies, with Marizanne Kapp and Nonkululeko Mlaba already taking two and four wickets respectively in their opener.

Follow all the live action from Sharjah in the blog below

Tryon out for 2! South Africa 99-3 (17) Kapp 23, Dean 1-25 (4)

Dean starts her last over, and starts it well with a dot ball. Kapp again goes big and over the top and dispatches Dean straight back over her head for a boundary.

She follows it up with another boundary over deep midwicket, that’s back to back fours for the first time in the game.

Dean has a wicket! The ball just goes under the bat of Tryon and takes off the bails.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 16:02

Wolvaardt out for 42! South Africa 89-3 (16) Kapp 14, Tryon 1, Ecclestone 1-11 (3)

Ecclestone is into her third over out of a maximum of four, and there’s a bit of turn.

Kapp goes for an innovative reverse paddle but cannot pick up a run for it. She goes up and over and it flies behind Amy Jones and will be well-stopped on the boundary to save a run.

Ecclestone strikes! Wolvaardt goes for a big pull shot and completely misses the ball which crashes into the stumps and brings Tryon to the crease.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:58

South Africa 84-2 (15) Wolvaardt 42, Kapp 11, Sciver-Brunt 0-24 (3)

Sciver-Brunt will bowl her third. Kapp crunches the ball down the ground for a boundary.

She will know all of these bowlers so well having played in the Hundred since the start.

Kapp has injected a new life into this batting performance and lifted the scoring rate significantly.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:53

Wicket! Bosch out for 18! South Africa 75-2 (14) Wolvaardt 40, Kapp 3, Glenn 1-18 (4)

Bosch tries something different, she reverse sweeps for a boundary! The ball races away for four, but when she tries it for a second time, Glenn strikes and Bosch is bowled!

That does bring the dangerous Marizanne Kapp to the crease alongside Wolvaardt, and these two will want to accelerate the scoring rate now.

Kapp is off the mark straight away with a quickly run two that almost turned into a run out with both players stranded at one end. But again England rue a missed chance.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:49

South Africa 67-1 (13) Wolvaardt 39, Bosch 13, Smith 1-21 (3)

Linsey Smith will bowl her third, and Bosch sweeps square towards cow corner, but it’s just two runs.

She paddles into the leg side for another single.

Still no boundaries have come off the bat in what feels like a very long time. But that was a bit more expensive, seven from it.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:45

South Africa 60-1 (12) Wolvaardt 37, Bosch 9, Glenn 0-10 (3)

Glenn continues in this trial by spin and even coming down the pitch, Wolvaardt can only manage a single.

While Bosch is struggling with just seven runs from 18 deliveries, she adds another though paddling the ball up to long off.

Bosch improvises, coming across the stumps to try and hook down towards long leg, but again there is no boundary.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:41

South Africa 56-1 (11) Wolvaardt 35, Bosch 7, Ecclestone 0-7 (2)

Ecclestone has a big shout for lbw, there’s nothing given from the umpire, and after a discussion Heather Knight thinks better of it.

The batters are really struggling to score runs, that over goes for just two, which is good for England.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:38

South Africa 513-1 (10) Wolvaardt 35, Bosch 6, Glenn 0-6 (2)

Glenn is frustrating Bosch, the first three balls of her second over are dots. Halfway through the over it has been 23 balls since the last boundary.

Just the three runs from the over, largely aided by a poor throw in from the deep scuppering a run out chance.

That will be drinks and the half way mark. This pitch is difficult to score on but England have done well so far.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:33

South Africa 51-1 (9) Wolvaardt 32, Bosch 5, Dean 0-15 (3)

Dean is a bit wayward and Wolvaardt sweeps, its fumbled on the line but stopped from crossing the boundary.

The batters are just working the ball around for ones and twos, which England seem content to let them do.

Sophie Ecclestone has dropped Bosch! That’s the third drop and England need to step up their game here.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:29

South Africa 45-1 (8) Wolvaardt 28, Bosch 3, Glenn 0-3 (1)

Time for a bit of leg spin from Sarah Glenn. England have kept their bowlers rotated pretty much constantly, not allowing the batters to settle against anyone.

There are four spinners, but they all offer something different.

Three runs from the over, England are turning the screw slightly here.

Sonia Twigg7 October 2024 15:26



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