Summary

  • South Africa win by six wickets

  • First Proteas side to reach a World Cup final

  • They will face defending champions Australia on Sunday

  • SA post 164-4 after fifties by Brits and Wolvaardt

  • Brits takes four catches, including one-handed stunner to dismiss Capsey

  • Ragged England lose 5-26 in 22 balls to fall to defeat

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Joe Rindl

  1. Seamer Nadine de Klerk is on for her first bowl...

  2. Firdose Moonda
    Cricket writer for Cricinfo

    The crowd are feeling every ball.

  3. Eng 81-2

    Target 165

    After Danni Wyatt gets a boundary to begin left-arm spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba's third over, Nat Sciver-Brunt wisely flicks the ball into a gap for a single.

    That's sensible batting.

    Still, three dots to finish squeeze the equation once again.

    The worm shows England are 23 runs ahead of South Africa. England are 81 for 2 after 9 overs. At the same stage South Africa were 58 for 0.BBC Sport

  4. Eng 75-2

    This experienced duo have settled things down from England's perspective just a little.

    The worm shows England are 25 runs ahead of South Africa. England are 75 for 2 after 8 overs. At the same stage South Africa were 50 for 0.BBC Sport

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    Mark: This game is very much alive. SA are a better bowling side than England. Wyatt and the superb NSB have to do the heavy lifting from here on.

  6. Eng 73-2

    Hearts leap into English mouths again as Nat Sciver-Brunt skews one in the air. The fielder cannot get round from mid-on.

  7. Eng 69-2

    Sophia Dunkley had played really well before chipping this catch to mid-wicket.

  8. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    A nerve-settling boundary.

  9. Georgia Elwiss
    England all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    Danni Wyatt had been watching it all unfold at the non-strikers end. She had not faced a ball in a while.

  10. Eng 67-2

    Need 98 more runs from 78 balls

    You know that split second when a ball is hit into the air and your heart skips a beat before you realise whether it has cleared the fielder.

    Well... that.

    Four to Danni Wyatt. She adds another at the end of the over too. It's a good one for England.

    The worm shows England are 23 runs ahead of South Africa. England are 67 for 2 after 7 overs. At the same stage South Africa were 44 for 0.BBC Sport

  11. Georgia Elwiss
    England all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    In the big games you need the big players. Shabnim Ismail has stepped up.

    The Newlands crowd are excited and back involved in the game. They sense something.

  12. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    What an over that is. Two runs and then two wickets. This game swings back right into the balance.

  13. Eng 55-2

    Target 165

    Two wickets and two runs from the over from the fiery Shabnim Ismail.

    Who knows where this game is going,

    The worm shows England are 18 runs ahead of South Africa. England are 55 for 2 after 6 overs. At the same stage South Africa were 37 for 0.BBC Sport

  14. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport in Cape Town

    Oh. Wow.

    That is one of the best catches I have ever seen.

    What a day Brits is having!

  15. Tazmin Brits has just been mobbed by her team-mates.

    The crowd is well and truly alive.

    Nat Sciver-Brunt needs to calm things down.

  16. Georgia Elwiss
    England all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    That is some catch. As special as it gets. One-handed, diving, it just sticks.

    Everything has changed within the space of three balls here.

  17. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Oh sensational! That is a stunning catch.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Capsey c Brits b Ismail 0 (Eng 53-2)

    SENSATIONAL. WHAT. A. CATCH.

    My word what a game of cricket this is. South Africa get a second wicket in three balls as Alice Capsey, who is beateb for pace attempting a pull, is taken sensationally at mid-wicket by Tazmin Brits.

    The ball was dropping low to her right but the lanky opener swoops low to take it one-handed, inches above the turf.

  19. Here's Alice Capsey...

  20. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport in Cape Town

    England were just starting to silence the Newlands crowd, but the noise after that wicket was quite something...