Summary

  • ICC Women's World Cup, Visakhapatnam - SA win toss & bowl

  • De Klerk hits stunning unbeaten 84 off 54 balls to lead Proteas to target of 252

  • South Africa win by three wickets with seven balls to spare

  • India 251 (49.5 overs): Ghosh 94 (77); Tryon 3-32

  • India slip from 83-1 to 102-6 before Ghosh counters brilliantly

  • SA go level with India on four points after three matches each

Live Reporting

by Elizabeth Botcherby & Sam Drury

  1. Ind 222-7

    Full toss from Ayabonga Khaka. Thank you very much says Sneh Rana. Four.

    Richa Ghosh opens her bat and sprays consecutive wider deliveries over cover for four before finishing the over with a monstrous six into the leg-side.

    Dani Hazell's "dreamland" 250 is in sight. South Africa are in disarray.

    'Stand and deliver' - Ghosh hits 14 off three balls

  2. Dani Hazell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    South Africa's job is to just hold onto this anything below 230 and they will be happy. There is a clear plan here.

  3. Ind 203-7

    For three deliveries, Marizanne Kapp's variations get the better of India, with her mixture of shorter and slower balls yielding three dots.

    But once Richa Ghosh has her eye in, there's only one outcome, smacking a slower ball through the covers for four.

    200 up for India and Ghosh and Sneh Rana have added 50 off just 36 balls.

    Ghosh hits Kapp for four to bring up India's 200

  4. Dani Hazell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    This is excellent batting.

    Richa Ghosh has given the crowd a lot the cheer about today.

    Richa GhoshGetty Images

  5. Ind 197-7

    Heading into the final 10 overs, India were 153-7 and had just lost Amanjot Kaur.

    Five overs later and they're 197-7.

  6. Ind 190-7

    16 runs from the 44th over. That's ruined Nadine de Klerk's figures (0-42 from six).

  7. Dani Hazell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Brilliant knock from Richa Ghosh, simply magnificent.

  8. 50 runs

    50 for Richa Ghosh

    Ind 190-7

    Ghosh scores half-century as India recover from middle order collapse

    Another wide is followed by a single for Richa Ghosh, who brings up her half-century from 53 balls.

    Her seventh ODI fifty may turn out to be her most valuable.

  9. Dani Hazell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Clever batting from Sneh Rana knowing where her fielders are. She fist pumped the air because she knows that is what she needed.

  10. Ind 188-7

    Shot! Sneh Rana paddles the ball around the wicketkeeper and beats the diving fielder to pick up four. Nadine de Klerk puts her head in her hands.

    It gets worse for the South Africa bowler as a wide delivery is also sent to the rope to add another five runs to India's tally.

    Then, Richa Ghosh squirts an ugly edge behind for four. Eek.

  11. Ind 174-7

    Nonkululeko Mlaba drags things back with a pair of dots but Sneh Rana pushes for two to get the scoreboard moving again.

    With a single off the final ball, she retains the strike.

    India have scored 20 runs in the last two overs.

  12. Ind 171-7

    Sneh Rana joins the boundary fun, hitting Nonkululeko Mlaba for back-to-back fours. 220 is definitely on.

  13. Dani Hazell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Richa Ghosh got down on one knee and slotted that one away. Anything that has been in her slot, she has gone for it.

  14. Ind 163-7

    Nine off the over, with a wide joining Ghosh's two and six.

    With eight overs remaining and Ghosh cruising, India will be eyeing at least 200, possibly 220.

  15. 6 runs

    Ind 162-7

    Nadine de Klerk gifts Richa Ghosh a full toss but she toe-ends it and can only snatch two.

    However, the India batter makes no mistake with the fourth ball of the over, hammering a slower delivery over mid-wicket for six. She's been very impressive whenever she's gone down on one knee.

  16. Ind 154-7

    Nonkululeko Mlaba rattles through her eighth over, conceding a single.

  17. Dani Hazell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    South Africa have put an end to Kaur's misery there. The game is in South Africa's hands and it comes down to Richa Ghosh.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Amanjot c Luus b Tryon 13 (Ind 153-7)

    Chloe Tryon strikes with her final delivery to break India's seventh-wicket partnership.

    Amanjot Kaur tries to go big but doesn't have the intent and picks out Sune Luus, taking a fine catch running back, at mid-off.

    Her laborious innings ends on 13 (44) while the much more jubilant Tryon finishes with 3-32.

    The silver lining for India is that Tryon is now bowled out, so they'll only have three overs of spin from Nonkululeko Mlaba to navigate in the final 10.

    Luus takes catch from Amanjot chip shot at mid-off as India lose seventh wicket

  19. Dani Hazell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Look at the revs on that ball - the Indian bowlers will be licking their lips.

  20. Ind 150-6

    There's "oooohs" all round as Nonkululeko Mlaba finds some turn and completely bamboozles Amanjot Kaur, the ball angling away from the India batter.

    Earlier, Richa Ghosh darted a single to bring up India's 150.