Summary

Live Reporting

by Timothy Abraham & Sam Drury

  1. Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    Very proactive session from England who have looked to get bat on ball and keep the runs ticking. They have played a shot at 97% of balls faced this morning.

  2. Eng 167-4

    Thanks, Sam. A reboot was required.

    Nadine de Klerk gets a short ball slightly off key and Amy Jones pulls it for four through mid-wicket.

    A couple of balls later and Jones anticipates a delivery which skids low and whips for another boundary square of the wicket.

  3. And just like that, Tim is back in the game...

  4. Eng 157-4

    Lead by 271

    Sam Drury stepping in here as Tim is experiencing some computer problems.

    He's not missed too much in this over as England take a pair of singles from Sune Luus' over.

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  6. Eng 154-4

    Curious with Ayanda Hlubi, who was in her whites doing various warming up exercises. South Africa's bowling attack is already shorn of Marizanne Kapp today.

    Nadine de Klerk back into the attack but England have one eye on the luncheon interval so it's a fairly cautious approach.

  7. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Apparently Ayanda Hlubi has been ruled out of the rest of this match. So she is not about to come on after all.

  8. Kevin Howells
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Look out, Ayanda Hlubi is going to come on. This should be good. But it does beg the question, where has she been? What has she been up to? I hope they're not taking a risk with her.

  9. Eng 152-4

    Sune Luus for the first time today. Heather Knight and Amy Jones happy to knock her into the gaps for the time being.

  10. Kevin Howells
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

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    The weather forecast for day four is scattered thundery showers. But, as always with cricket, you have to be mindful about playing your plan to a forecast that may not come to fruition.

  11. Eng 149-4

    Amy Jones is the new batter and seems content to defend to initially Nonkululeko Mlaba before she crisply punches the South Africa spinner through the on side for four.

    England will not want to lose another wicket before lunch.

  12. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Sekhukhune deserves that wicket but it's a weak dismissal for Danni Wyatt-Hodge and she'll be really frustrated with herself.

    Not a great delivery and she slashes at it. It's a fly slip or short third, a good position for Wyatt-Hodge, who plays with hard hands, and it picks out that perfectly-placed fielder.

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    WICKET

    Wyatt-Hodge c Bosch b Sekhukhune 23 (Eng 140-4)

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    In an eventful over, Tumi Sekhukhune gets the wicket of Danni Wyatt-Hodge. Albeit it's not the prettiest.

    A bit of a filthy slash from the England batter to a wide one from Sekhukhune and the ball comes off the edge and flies into the hands of Anneke Bosch at short third.

    Smart catch by Bosch.

  14. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Great shot from Wyatt-Hodge. Just slightly back of a length with the ball angling in towards her but she picks it up and over mid-wicket.

  15. Eng 140-4

    Tumi Sekhukhune is exasperated, arms outstretched with a can't-believe-it grin on her face.

    Danni Wyatt-Hodge slashes at wide one which goes for four.

    Nothing fortuitous a ball later when Wyatt-Hodge uses her low centre of gravity to waspishly whip it for four.

  16. Eng 131-3

    Nonkululeko Mlaba continues to wheel away around the wicket to a rather stoic Heather Knight and Danni Wyatt-Hodge, content to work the spinner into the gaps.

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  18. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Heather Knight has done well to keep that out. It's a back of a length delivery that probably would have hit not even a third of a way up the stumps.

    It's not easy out there.

  19. Eng 129-3

    Lead by 243 runs

    Tumi Sekhukhune draws a play and miss from Heather Knight outside off stump. The England skipper does well to dig out one which skids low along the pitch later in the over.

    A maiden from the South Africa seamer.

  20. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

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    Heather Knight is leading by example - there was some talk about her not passing 50 for a while, but now she has.