Summary

  • South Africa win by seven wickets

  • SA's Lizelle Lee hits 92 not out

  • England scored 189-9 after recovering from 97-8

  • Eng: Katherine Brunt hits 72* off 98 balls

  • First of three ODIs, Worcester

  • ICC Championship points at stake

Live Reporting

Mark Mitchener

  1. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    You might expect a wicketkeeper to stand up here to Khaka, but Lizelle Lee has stayed far too far back.

  2. Eng 44-4

    A double change in the bowling - it's debutant off-spinner Raisibe Ntozakhe, whose hairstyle is as unusual as her name - sort of like a mohican with a dreadlocked ponytail, but shaved off completely at the sides. Certainly unmistakeable.

    Wyatt is off the mark with a single, Sciver rotates the strike, and England are "double Richie Benaud" - 22-2 times two, they're 44-4.

    Natalie SciverGetty Images

  3. Eng 42-4

    Sciver 8, Wyatt 0

    Danielle Wyatt in at number six for England - she has two T20 international centuries to her name since she last played for England on home soil, but she's got nearly 40 overs to bat through today. There's almost a mix-up as Sciver looks rather keen for a single. But Khaka strays with a couple of wides.

  4. WATCH: Taylor is second to fall

    Sarah Taylor was next to fall as Ismail picked up a second wicket

  5. WATCH: How the collapse began

    You can follow in-play highlights of today's game here on the BBC Sport website & app - here's how it began with Amy Jones' dismissal...

  6. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    These are nervous times for England. I would have bowled first, not least because South Africa's strength is their bowling. There was a smile on Van Niekerk's face at the toss. She was keen to bowl.

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    WICKET

    Beaumont b Khaka 6 (Eng 39-4)

    Another one down! A change in the bowling brings on right-arm seamer Ayabonga Khaka and she strikes with her first ball as Beaumont is bowled!

    England in a right pickle here.

  8. Eng 39-3

    Decisions, decisions. South Africa keep going with their opening overs, while Charlotte Edwards and the TMS team face an agonising choice over their lunch orders. Back on the field, Nat Sciver is off the mark with a nudge for four off her pads, while she jams her bat down on one which keeper Lizelle Lee fumbles behind the stumps and that's four more.

    Without Tricia Chetty in the side, Lee is more of a stand-in keeper - a regular keeper would have expected to stop that one.

  9. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at New Road

    Was the World Cup the start of a new era for women's cricket in this country?

    New Road isn't full. At best, I'd say half of the seats are taken. Tickets are well priced - a tenner for adults and a quid for kids - but there isn't much around the town of Worcester to let you know this game is on.

    Also, England are playing their first game on home soil more than 300 days since that triumph at Lord's. Absence makes the heart grow forgetful?

  11. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    There's a lot said, particularly in the men's game, about being positive and playing your shots, but there is a time when you have to recognise that the opening bowlers are bowling well. Shabnim Ismail is small in stature but she gets the ball down there very quickly.

  12. Eng 29-3

    Natalie Sciver doesn't normally come in to face the new ball, but there's pressure on England now.

    An intriguing call for the Proteas though - with Ismail and Kapp bowling so well, how long do the opening pair keep going?

  13. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That looked out. Heather doesn't look pleased. She might have got an inside edge but, if she didn't, that was stone dead. The England middle order is exposed.

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    WICKET

    Knight lbw b Kapp 4 (Eng 29-3)

    Captain Heather Knight joins Beaumont at the crease - there's an element of versatility about England's middle order. Had the second wicket fallen at 200-2, it might have been the cue for Natalie Sciver or Danni Wyatt to join the onslaught, but at 24-2 it's the right circumstances for the skipper to dig in and rebuild the innings.

    But after cracking a four through the covers, Knight joins her team-mates in the hunch as Kapp thuds one into her pads. The skipper does not look happy at all, but the ball-tracker shows the ball crashing into middle stump.

  15. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That's a huge wicket for the South Africans, Sarah Taylor has been so prolific against them in the past.

    Tammy Beaumont wants to take the attack to the South Africans, but they need to regroup now.

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    WICKET

    Taylor lbw b Ismail 2 (Eng 24-2)

    Another breakthrough for Shabnim Ismail, who pitches the ball up and traps Sarah Taylor lbw cheaply. The Proteas will be cock-a-hoop.

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  18. Eng 23-1

    Despite the departure of Jones, there's still no slip in for Kapp as she charges in from the Diglis End. Just a couple of singles added to the score.

    (For those of you partially familiar with New Road, the Diglis End is the far end from the pavilion where those legendary cakes can be purchased - I wonder if the TMS team will partake today).

  19. Eng 21-1

    Beaumont 1, Taylor 1

    Sarah Taylor, who missed the tour of India, is back in her regular number three slot - it's great to see her back in the side. She's off the mark in a similar manner to Beaumont, inside-edging Ismail past the stumps for a single.

  20. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Amy Jones likes the short ball and she went for a pull shot, but it didn't quite get up. She showed what she is capable of, though. You would expect that to bounce a lot higher. She played it on length.