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. WATCH: Brunt brings up half-century with four

    Here's one last highlight from the England innings, especially for all you Katherine Brunt fans - the four which brought up her fifty.

  2. SA 14-2

    Brunt 3-1-9-1

    Lizelle Lee guides Brunt for four when she offers a bit of width, and then helps herself to four more through the covers.

  3. SA 6-2

    Target 190

    Dane van Niekerk is the new batter for South Africa, and has a rebuilding job on her hands. She plays out the rest of the over with just another wide added to the score - if it had been bowled prior to 1984, it would have been a maiden as, staggeringly in retrospect, wides and no-balls did not count against the bowler then. Luckily for the likes of Bob Willis.

  4. Views from the press box

    Adam Collins: Sarah Taylor is the best wicketkeeper on the planet.

    Melinda Farrell: To paraphrase the great Jack Gibson, Sarah Taylor is so fast she could turn the light off and be in bed before it's dark. Two down for SA. Game on.

    Mel Jones: Tip to anyone playing against Sarah Taylor.. do not, I repeat DO NOT lose your balance, leave your crease, miss anything down leg. Just ask Sune Luus. Stunning stumping.

  5. Lydia Greenway
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    We were talking earlier about the beauty of having Sarah Taylor behind the stumps - a big contrast to Lizelle Lee who didn't stand up [to the seamers].

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Luus st Taylor b Shrubsole 0 (SA 5-2)

    It's a Luus bit of batting in every sense - the new number three takes a step forward as the ball goes down the leg side, but is outside her crease when Taylor has the bails off in a flash and can't get her bat down in time.

    But when you have a world-class wicketkeeper, these things can happen. Teams around the world, at all levels, take note!

  7. Third umpire

    It's all happening - a legisde wide is signalled, Sarah Taylor appeals for a stumping and it looks like Luus has gone!

  8. SA 4-1

    Sune Luus is playing her 64th ODI - but has never batted at three before. A straight ball looks like it's going straight through her, Brunt appeals for lbw and a leg bye is the result.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Wolvaardt b Brunt 2 (SA 3-1)

    Brunt strikes! You can't keep her out of the game - bowling the dangerous Wolvaardt off an inside edge.

  10. Lydia Greenway
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    The England team really built up a connection with the public last year. Now, young girls have heroes they can look up to and aspire to be like.

  11. SA 2-0

    Anya Shrubsole takes the second over - with Sarah Taylor standing up to the stumps, and a slip standing deeper. South Africa are up and running as Wolvaardt helps herself to a two

  12. SA 0-0

    Target 190

    Lizelle Lee didn't cover herself in glory with the wicketkeeping gauntlets on earlier today, but she sees off the opening over unscathed - it's a maiden first up for Brunt.

  13. It's Lizelle Lee and Laura Wolvaardt opening for South Africa. Katherine Brunt to bowl, with a slip in.

  14. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Scotland women's international Olivia Rae: Top comeback for England women and fight by Brunt. Cricket is full of twists and turns, another reason to love the game!

  15. Lydia Greenway
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Katherine Brunt is in the game now, she'll want to keep going when she opens the bowling.

  16. Plenty of food for thought from Clare Connor - I hope you've had your food too, as it's almost time for South Africa to begin their reply, needing 190 to beat England.

  17. BBC Test Match Special

    And the World T20 in the West Indies later this year?

    Clare Connor on TMS: "I'm very exciting - we've been double world champions once before in 2009. You want to feel that sense of dominance, we're playing on some great islands and the Caribbean adore their cricket so that opportunity is great, and competition for places will be really tough.

  18. BBC Test Match Special

    What about Colin Graves' comments about cricket not being popular with young people?

    Clare Connor on TMS: "Colin is a massive supporter of the women's game, he leads that board brilliantly. I think he was talking about the challenges that face team sports who are having to work very hard to keep children in our game. We need to address participation and engage more people than we currently do."

  19. BBC Test Match Special

    Is it sad that the Super League's teams and identities will be lost from 2020? Such as Western Storm, the champions - there won't be a team at Taunton?

    Clare Connor on TMS: "Sad's not the right word. The Kia Super League, in its current form, has done a phenomenal job in years one and two, and we've still got years three and four to come, with double the number of games. People have done an unbelievable job in creating a competition from scratch.

    "There's a bit of sentimentality about next steps, but it's about building from here. Things change - cricket has stayed stuck in other competitions for too long. The KSL brands and followings have been great, I would urge people to trust us and we will deliver a domestic competition equally worthy of following. I would urge people to look at the 100-ball as the scale opportunity."

  20. BBC Test Match Special

    Where does the ECB's new competition from 2020 fit in?

    Clare Connor on TMS: "The first thing to say is that our decision to be part of it is based on the scale it can give the women's game. It can give a message to clubs, societies and the general public that we are putting an elite competition for men and women on the same playing field, literally. We've seen the power of the Women's Big Bash joining the Big Bash after three or four years - we have the power to build this in from the beginning. It gives the domestic structure even more importance - the players will be paid very well for a four or five-week block."