Summary

  • India win Women's World Cup for first time - full report

  • Tournament hosts complete victory on stroke of midnight local time

  • Deepti Sharma takes 5-39 as South Africa fall short

  • Wolvaardt hits sublime 101 but falls to juggling Amanjot catch

  • Part-time bowler Verma removes Luus & Kapp

  • India post 298-7 - Verma top-scores with 87 off 78 balls

  • Deepti hits unbeaten 58, Ghosh smashes 34 off 24

  • Khaka takes 3-58 but SA drop number of chances

Live Reporting

by Elizabeth Botcherby

  1. SA 246-8

    Nadine de Klerk is keeping the strike. After three dot balls, she finally gets one away, splitting the field in the leg side and collecting four.

    It's followed by five wides as Sree Charani loses her line down leg and Renuka Singh can't scoop it away from the rope.

    Another wide. And then a boundary, de Klerk steering into a huge gap behind square for four. Expensive.

  2. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The ground fielding has been brilliant today, but the catching has been atrocious from both sides. Jemimah Rodrigues has to catch that, simple as.

  3. SA 232-8

    Need 67 runs from 36 balls

    There should have been two wickets in that over.

    Instead, just the three singles for South Africa.

    The required rate is above 11. They need a miracle.

  4. Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    This is sport, isn't it? One of the finest fielders in the Indian team - Jemimah Rodrigues - has put down the catch of Nadine de Klerk and that could have sealed the game for India.

  5. dropped catch

    Dropped catch - De Klerk on 9

    SA 231-8

    Jemimah Rodrigues has put down Nadine de Klerk in the deep.

  6. dropped catch

    Dropped catch - Khaka on 0

    SA 231-8

    Bowler Renuka Singh, running to her left with her hand outstretched, can't cling onto a chip back from Ayabonga Khaka.

  7. SA 229-8

    Need 70 runs from 42 balls

    Eight runs off the over. The final four legal deliveries are dots. Why did Nadine de Klerk push through for a single midway through the over? She needs to be on strike as much as possible.

  8. SA 229-8

    Target 299

    It's a no ball from Sree Charani but South Africa ran a single! Ayabonga Khaka faces the free hit but swings, misses and is stumped by a mile. Not that it counts...

  9. SA 227-8

    Target 299

    Nadine de Klerk is not done yet! She gets down on one knee and sweeps aerially for four.

    Six runs off the first two balls of the 43rd over.

  10. How's stat?!

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    Deepti SharmaGetty Images

    Deepti Sharma becomes the first Indian bowler to take four wickets in the Women’s World Cup final - only Anya Shrubsole has ever taken more than four wickets in the final (6-46 v India, 2017).

  11. SA 221-8

    Need 78 runs from 48 balls

    The moment time stood still... this was the first of two wickets to fall in the 42nd over. Laura Wolvaardt OUT. Chloe Tryon OUT.

    South Africa need 78 runs from 48 balls. Nadine de Klerk and Ayabonga Khaka are in the middle.

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  12. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    TryonReuters

    Clever bowling from Deepti Sharma, it is flatter and quicker. How funny is cricket, how funny is pressure and what it can do to a team.

    You can see in the huddle, Harmanpreet Kaur reiterating that the job is not finished. They still need to take two wickets.

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Tryon lbw b Deepti 9 (SA 221-8)

    Red. Red. Amber. It's umpire's call, hitting leg stump.

    Deepti Sharma has two wickets in four balls and 4-39 in the match.

    Chloe Tryon is out for 9 (8). Nadine de Clutch - what have you got left?

  14. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    This is out.

  15. South Africa review

    This one has been given out! Chloe Tryon has been given out lbw.

    South Africa send it upstairs.

  16. SA 220-7

    Deepti Sharma and most of the India team go up for a huge lbw appeal against Nadine de Klerk.

    It looked close to me but the umpire says no. India have used all of their reviews...

  17. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    IndiaGetty Images

    No wonder she was mobbed by her teammates. Amanjot Kaur was meant to take that catch, and she has now helped to dismiss the South African captain and has India just won the World Cup with that catch?

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Wolvaardt c Amanjot b Deepti 101 (SA 220-7)

    HUGE!!!

    Laura Wolvaardt skies the ball but it doesn't have the distance. Three India fielders converge. Amanjot Kaur is underneath it. She juggles once, twice, and falls to the floor as she takes it at the third attempt.

    Wolvaardt is out for 101 (98).

    It's over to Chloe Tryon and Nadine de Klerk to win this for South Africa.

    'Time stood still!' - Amanjot makes juggling catch to dismiss Wolvaardt

  19. SA 220-6

    Need 79 runs from 54 balls

    Amanjot Kaur concedes just a single from her first three balls but then Chloe Tryon flashes the ball for four through point. She threaded that gap nicely!

    She tries to finish the over in similar fashion but Jemimah Rodrigues, speeding to her left on the rope, saves two.

  20. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport cricket writer on BBC Radio Sports Extra

    This is where Laura Wolvaardt really accelerated the other night against England. She got to her hundred, and she went bang.