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. South Africa need a big finish but they're not out of this yet, especially with Laura Wolvaardt still at the crease...

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  2. SA 211-6

    Need 88 runs from 60 balls

    The equation is 88 from 60. South Africa are so good in the final 10 overs. When will see them kick into hyperdrive?

  3. How's stat?!

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    A hundred off just 96 balls for Laura Wolvaardt, her ninth ODI hundred and her fastest. She’s faced just 40% dot balls, which is the lowest for any of her centuries. What a time to do it for the skipper!

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

    Another incredible innings from Laura Wolvaardt, and not only has she shown the mental and physical toughness to score back-to-back hundreds, but it is so comforting if you're a South African fan that she is still there.

  5. 100 runs

    100 for Laura Wolvaardt

    SA 211-6

    A century in a World Cup final for Laura Wolvaardt!

    South Africa's skipper has been excellent throughout this tournament - is she the best batter in the world at the moment? She's certainly the most in form. She's scored 60*, 90, 31, 169, and 100* in her past five innings.

    This one came off 96 balls.

    'Another fabulous knock from South Africa's captain' - Wolvaardt reaches century

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

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    Annerie Dercksen has played a handy cameo, but it was a really full delivery fired in from Deepti Sharma, and Dercksen yorked herself. She has played really nicely in a big occasion.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Dercksen b Deepti 35 (SA 209-6)

    Lovely delivery from Deepti Sharma! She deceives Annerie Dercksen with a fuller delivery and scatters her stumps.

    A breakthrough for India after a handy 35 (37) from Dercksen but here comes Chloe Tryon...

    'The game swings again to the hosts' - Deepti bowls Dercksen

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

    It's a beautiful shot, and it shows Wolvaardt's experience that she dispatches such balls irrespective of who bowls it to her.

  9. SA 207-5

    Target 299

    Lovely placement from Laura Wolvaardt, beating a fielder in the ring and in the deep to pick up four through the covers.

    Oh ho! Back-to-back boundaries, the second creamed through mid-on.

    She's on 98 (94).

  10. SA 198-5

    Target 299

    Four singles. Laura Wolvaardt is into the nineties.

    The required rate is closing in on 8.5 per over.

    A few more of these would be nice for South Africa...

    Dercksen smashes back-to-back sixes

  11. How's stat?!

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    India have now dropped 19 catches in the tournament, more than any other team.

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

    Is it becoming one over too many for Shafali Verma? South Africa have to be ruthless here, and when the bad ball comes, it has to be dispatched.

  13. SA 194-5

    Target 299

    Shafali Verma returns but her first ball is too short and Annerie Dercksen laps it up, getting down on one knee and pulling for four.

    Dercksen survives a couple of scares in the 37th, top-edging just out of the keeper's reach and then swinging and missing at one she tries to power away. Still, she's made a handy 31 (28).

  14. How's stat?!

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    India have struck regularly in the last 15 overs of the competition so far, taking a wicket every 17.1 deliveries. Only Australia struck more frequently (every 15.5 balls) in the last 90 deliveries of the innings.

  15. SA 186-5

    Target 299

    ThakurReuters

    It's a tight over from Renuka Singh, conceding three singles, but she should have a wicket to her name.

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

    Deepti Sharma would back herself to take that every time, it was hit firmly, but it was straight to her hands.

  17. dropped catch

    Dropped catch - Dercksen on 24

    SA 185-5

    Oh, Annerie Dercksen should be a goner.

    She struck it firm and low towards Deepti Sharma at mid-wicket but despite getting two hands to it, the all-rounder can't cling on.

    Make a note...

    Sharma drops Dercksen on 32

  18. How's stat?!

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    Laura Wolvaardt has now scored 213 runs with the drive throughout the competition, which is the most productive shot of any player in the tournament.

  19. Well Jar, there really is very little in this, you know.

    A few good overs and the momentum swings South Africa's way.

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    South Africa have so many players who’ve played in the hundred, including Wolvaardt, Tryon and De Klerk… They needed 123 off 100 balls. Time to treat this as a hundred chase?

    Jar, Birmingham