Summary

  • Group B, Sharjah

  • England chase 125 to win by seven wickets with four balls to spare

  • Sciver-Brunt hits unbeaten 48 and Wyatt-Hodge makes fine 43

  • SA 124-6 (20.0 overs): Wolvaardt 42 (39); Ecclestone 2-15

  • Scroll back through live text to watch highlights

Live Reporting

by Timothy Abraham & Ffion Wynne

  1. wicket

    WICKET

    Kapp b Ecclestone 26 (SA 110-5)

    Huge.

    An uncharacteristic hack from Marizanne Kapp sees her stumps splattered by Sophie Ecclestone.

    A valuable 26 from 17 balls from South Africa's star all-rounder but she'll be kicking herself. They needed her there for the conclusion.

    England now have a valuable opportunity to squeeze even more.

    Kapp bowled by Ecclestone for 26

  2. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    What a shot!

    Huge slog sweep and it flew away, let's see if she can hit more of those monsters.

  3. 6 runs

    SA 110-4

    First six of the day and it's a cracker!

    Linsey Smith keeps squeezing with just singles off the first five balls, but Annerie Dercksen slog-sweeps the final ball over mid-wicket for six.

    Glorious timing. South Africa needed that.

    Dercksen hits Smith for a massive six

  4. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    It really feels like the conclusion of this innings is going to be vital.

  5. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Great finish to the over by Charlie Dean. Kapp had put her under some pressure but she's able to continue and take a huge wicket for England.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Tryon b Dean 2 (SA 99-4)

    Big breakthrough!

    Charlie Dean responds perfectly to those two boundaries she'd conceded, firing one full and straight to deceive Chloe Tryon.

    England will be delighted to see the back of South Africa's big hitter.

    The pressure mounts on Marizanne Kapp.

    Deans bowls Tryon for two

  7. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Well suddenly the momentum has shifted, the pressure is on Charlie Dean.

  8. SA 98-3

    She goes again!

    Flicked over mid-wicket for the same result as Kapp targets Charlie Dean.

  9. SA 94-3

    Straight down the ground for four.

    Marizanne Kapp, what a cricketer.

  10. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Pure class form Ecclestone, the best bowler in the world.

    Wolvaardt was just hanging on but Ecclestone's picked up a huge wicket for England.

  11. SA 89-3

    This is a crucial partnership.

    The class act of Marizanne Kapp with the power-hitting of Chloe Tryon.

    Can England contain them?

  12. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Sophie Ecclestone roars with enthusiasm, the pace was taken off and the captain goes.

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Wolvaardt b Ecclestone 42 (SA 88-3)

    It's not Kapp, but it's a huge wicket nonetheless.

    Sophie Ecclestone has her first wicket of the World Cup after a rare off-day against Bangladesh. Full, straight and Laura Wolvaardt swings across the line but misses.

    Perhaps a little bit of fatigue kicking in there for the South African skipper.

    Ecclestone strikes to remove Wolvaardt for 42

  14. SA 85-2

    Big match-up.

    England's best in Ecclestone, to South Africa's best in Kapp.

  15. SA 85-2

    Kapp goes again, trying to drill the ball over the off side, but Heather Knight leaps like a salmon at extra cover to restrict it to a single.

    England's skipper sets the example amid what has been a pretty shabby fielding performance from England so far.

  16. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    How good is it to see arguably the two best all-rounders in the world go up against each other?

  17. SA 80-2

    And that's why South Africa were crying out for Marizanne Kapp.

    She skips down the pitch to Nat Sciver-Brunt and thumps the ball over mid-off for four.

  18. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    It's tricky batting conditions, you sense a certain frustration from South Africa's batting.

  19. Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Ex-England bowler on BBC Sounds

    There's no way on god's green earth that there wasn't a run out from that!

  20. SA 75-2

    Oh no, chaos!

    Both batters are practically at the same end, with Laura Wolvaardt guilty of ball-watching after Kapp had driven nicely out to deep cover.

    The throw comes to the wrong end with Kapp comfortably home, but Amy Jones' throw is wide and Wolvaardt survives. There was nobody at the stumps, and the South Africa skipper would've been out by some distance.