Thanks for your company on another tension-filled night for Heather Knight's England. Their wait for a win this winter goes on with the World Cup defence in tatters but it has certainly not been dull!

South Africa are left to celebrate a famous victory and England find themselves on the brink of an early exit.

If you valued a good night's sleep over over a crucial World Cup game - yes, I believe there are such people out there - then you can read Stephan Shemilt's report on another thrilling contest right here.

Until next time, goodbye!

It feels like we have all lived this game through Dane van Niekerk's tweets!

Ultimately though, England did not have enough runs on the board and - for the third game running - find themselves on the wrong side of a thrilling encounter.

Heather Knight and co now need four wins from their last four games and other results to go their way if they are to reach the semi-finals.

South Africa, on the other hand, have given themselves every chance of making the top four.

England clawed their way back into contention, in no small part down to the brilliance of Sophie Ecclestone, and when Katherine Brunt got a fingertip on Marizanne Kapp's drive to run out Chloe Tryon, they might just have had the edge...

While cruising would be overstating it, South Africa were on track for victory before England finally held on to a catch to dismiss Wolvaardt for 77 and make it 158-4....

Nat Sciver got rid of Tazmin Brits but England were guilty of missing a number of opportunity, Wolvaardt often the beneficiary, with a missed stumping from Amy Jones added to a number of dropped catches...

Defending 236, England gave Laura Wolvaardt a life early on as Tammy Beaumont shelled a regulation chance at point but Anya Shrubsole bowled the dangerous Lizelle Lee to raise the defending champions' hopes...

South Africa captain Sune Luus on Sky Sports: "We do our best when we are putting the opposition under pressure and we have a world class bowling attack so I felt like we could restrict them to a total that we could chase down. I'm very happy it turned out like that tonight.

"Marizanne Kapp was world class. She shows her class every time she steps on to the field and she is such an inspiration to young girls and boys out there.

"Lizelle hasn't played much cricket in the past few months so she's just finding her feet, we're not putting too much pressure on her. But I'm glad that everyone chipped in today, it was totally a team effort and I'm so proud of the girls.

"Regardless of what happens in the rest of the tournament, we have made history today and nothing is going to change that. I think everyone in South Africa is very proud of us and we can be proud of ourselves too.

"It's exciting that we haven't played our best cricket yet."

England captain Heather Knight on Sky Sports: "It puts us in a tough position. I'll be honest, it's painful losing three close games in a row.

"At times we shot ourselves in the foot with our fielding. You can't give a player like Laura Wolvaardt that many chances, because she will make you pay.

"We are gutted with the situation. It's not through lack of effort or lack of graft but we have got another game very quickly and we've got to try and turn it around. Other games have got to go our way now, but there is still a chance and we will keep believing.

"I would've liked 15-20 more runs. They bowled well at the death, but we lost key wickets at key times going into those final 10 overs. Amy and Tammy batted brilliantly, their partnership was outstanding, but we just couldn't quite get over the line.

"We've got no other option than to turn it around very quickly and win that game against India. We are gutted, there will be some sad faces, but we've got to get everyone up and ready to come out fighting.

"Things haven't quite gone our way, but we haven't been good enough in certain areas so we've got to do better and put that right for the next game."

Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones shared a century stand to get England back on track but when they fell in quick succession, England were left to scramble up to 235-9.

Marizanne Kapp was brilliant for South Africa, claiming three wickets at the death to complete her maiden international five-for...

Really, England should have known it wasn't going to be their day once Nat Sciver was dismissed in such bizarre fashion.

An attempted pull shot somehow resulted in the ball coming off the back of the bat and going straight to first slip. It needs to be seen to be believed...

A third loss on the spin for England and they found themselves in trouble early on after being asked to bat.

Danni Wyatt, promoted to open, went early and captain Heather Knight followed soon after...

Player of the Match Marizanne Kapp on Sky Sports: "I just backed myself for the first time in a while. I remember what they did to us in the semi-final in 2017 and I knew I had to have better plans this time around.

"It's been brilliant that we haven't actually played our best cricket yet, especially with the bat, yet we still managed to get those runs together and walk away with the win.

"I'm just happy Dane was watching! It's so much harder without her, we miss her, but this win was for her."

Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special

It is not over for England but they are now relying on other results to go their way.

Defeat to Australia you expect. Defeat to West Indies and South Africa, you do not. It is pretty disastrous, and look at those celebrations from South Africa - that tells you all you need to know.

Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special

South Africa have dealt England a hammer blow. Three games played, three games lost.

A devastating blow.

Lydia Greenway
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

Credit to South Africa. They deserve that win. With the batting they just made good decisions the whole way through.

England were about 10-15 runs short and you think back to that key partnership between Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont when they were both set and got out. That was an important moment.

Chetty heaves ball over the legside and South Africa have won!

Three wins on the bounce for South Africa, their highest successful World Cup chase and a first World Cup win over England for 20 years!

For Heather Knight's side, it is three defeats on the spin and their semi-final hopes are hanging by a thread.