Summary

  • England reach World Cup final - will play Australia on Sunday in Christchurch (02:00 BST)

  • Ecclestone (6-36) takes first international five-wicket haul

  • Shrubsole takes two wickets with new ball

  • England post 293-8 after being asked to bat first

  • Wyatt - dropped five times - makes 129 off 125 balls

  • Opener shares stand of 116 with Dunkley (60) for fifth wicket

Live Reporting

Sam Drury and Ffion Wynne

  1. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    England are one step closer to the final on Sunday.

  2. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    That is an absolute beauty.

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    WICKET

    Kapp b Ecclestone 21 (SA 96-5)

    Thanks, Ffion. I've struck in my first over again!

    Sophie Ecclestone knocks over Marizanne Kapp with a ripper, drawing the right-hander forward and getting just enough turn to beat the edge and hit middle.

  4. SA 95-4

    Target 294

    Charlie Dean's fourth over concedes just three runs, and she is playing a blinder.

    Treat yourselves to viewing her wicket of Lara Goodall, while I hand over to Sam Drury to take you through the rest of the game.

  5. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    England have been getting better and better in this tournament and here they have pieced everything together. It's been a dream for England.

  6. SA 92-4

    Target 294

    There's such an air of inevitability whenever Ecclestone comes on to bowl, like a wicket is just an automatic assumption.

    Not to be in her first over though as Marizanne Kapp carves one just backward of point for four.

  7. Here she comes. Sophie Ecclestone is having a bowl.

  8. SA 86-4

    Target 294

    Something's shifted in the South Africa camp and these two have clearly realised it's now or never. A couple of big swings at Charlie Dean, but none of them find the boundary.

  9. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    That was a big over, and it still was behind the rate for South Africa.

  10. Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    This could be the last World Cup opportunity for a lot of players in this South Africa squad.

  11. SA 81-4

    Target 294

    Kapp goes again, this time a filthy slog that balloons up in the air and just out of the reach of a diving Charlie Dean.

    There's no harm in swinging for a few, even if she gets out. The run rate is almost unreachable as it is.

  12. SA 78-4

    There it is! Marizanne Kapp releases the shackles by thumping Kate Cross over her head for a glorious four.

    Few more of those needed.

  13. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

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    South Africa are going nowhere here - what's their approach? There's no point in batting out the 50 overs.

  14. SA 74-4

    Target 294

    Just two from the over. Time for South Africa to have a swing? They'll lose the game regardless if this keeps going the way it is.

  15. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

    South Africa won the toss and gave up the chance to get first use of what seemed a good batting surface early on but now just seems to be nibbling around a bit.

    The worm shows South Africa Women are 17 runs behind England Women. South Africa Women are 72 for 4 after 20 overs. At the same stage England Women were 89 for 3.

  16. Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    Even a good over now, six from it, will push the required rate up. That's how desperate the situation is for South Africa.

  17. SA 72-4

    Target 294

    Kate Cross continues - the wait for Ecclestone goes on.

    The run rate is creeping up. South Africa are in real danger of letting this game slip away. Marizanne Kapp is there, and she is such a competitor that she will fight until the very end, but it's very ambitious now.

  18. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

    I think Charlie Dean has made herself an automatic selection.

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    Mark Puttick: That's Charlie Dean's ninth wicket in the in the "middle overs" (15-39) of this World Cup. Only Sophie Ecclestone has more in the same overs.

  20. SA 70-4

    Target 294

    Charlie Dean and Sophie Ecclestone bowling in tandem here could end this game pretty quickly.