- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR11.6 short ball strikes! Hlubi bangs it in outside off, Beaumont swung across the line, didn't get hold ot it, but Luus at midwicket moved sharply to her left and clung on well in both hands. South Africa strike as the hour mark approaches 53/156.1 slashed to slip! Mlaba tosses this up above the eyeline and finds some turn as Bouchier looks to go over mid-off. Thick outside edge, and a sharp take from Luus above her head. Mlaba roars in celebration 277/327.3 Huge appeal for lbw! Knight is toast! Ducking back in, pinned on the pads, Sekhukhune strikes a massive post-lunch blow. Knight looked aggrieved but even with DRS she'd have struggled to overturn that. Good nip and hits the inside half of the pad 103/278.4 bottom-handed blap back down the pitch, and Sciver-Brunt flings her head back in dismay! It's a thin flick of Mlaba's fingers on the ball as it crashes into the stumps with the non-striker out of her crease! She knew immediately and started walking even before the verdict was in. What a way for a mighty knock to end! 357/562.1 Wonderful delivery, takes the edge! That's a ripper, looped up from round the wicket, dipping and gripping on an off-stump line, drawing the hard-handed drive and taking the edge as it bites and straightens. Good take standing up, and South Africa have a post-tea boost 299/484.4 holed out to mid-off! Jones goes for broke, and is bankrupted! Good length, looking to launch it over the top, Kapp was halfway back to the rope and circled under it well. Mlaba has her fourth, and this pitch has come to life! 371/782.3 bowled her off an under-edge! The spinners are really starting to talk here! Dean got in a tangle as the ball got big on her, she was deep in her crease, playing with an angled bat, but the backspin took it off the face, into the pitch, and up into the stumps! 368/691.3 wide on the crease, cleans her up! Uses the crease well, shapes it back in off the seam, and bursts through Ecclestone who was looking to flick leg-side with no foot movement. Flicked the back hip on its way through 395/990.5 cleaned up! Kapp strikes with the new ball. Full, angling in, goes straight on past the inside edge and into the top of middle-and-leg. 391/8Extras18 (b 1, lb 13, w 4)TOTAL395/9d (92 Overs, RR: 4.29)Fall of wickets: 1-53 (Tammy Beaumont, 11.6 ov), 2-103 (Heather Knight, 27.3 ov), 3-277 (Maia Bouchier, 56.1 ov), 4-299 (Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 62.1 ov), 5-357 (Nat Sciver-Brunt, 78.4 ov), 6-368 (Charlie Dean, 82.3 ov), 7-371 (Amy Jones, 84.4 ov), 8-391 (Ryana MacDonald-Gay, 90.5 ov), 9-395 (Sophie Ecclestone, 91.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB M Kapp 7 2 20 1 2.85 0 0 A Hlubi 12 3 40 2 3.33 2 0 A Dercksen 8 2 41 0 5.12 1 0 N de Klerk 9 2 39 0 4.33 1 0 TS Sekhukhune 7 0 37 1 5.28 0 0 N Mlaba 20 2 90 4 4.50 0 0 CL Tryon 5 0 36 0 7.20 0 0 S Luus 24 1 78 0 3.25 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR44.5 thumped on the pads and Wolvaardt has to go! She is utterly livid at that dismissal, and the gestures imply an inside-edge! No DRS, so no recourse. It was a tighter line, attacking middle and finding the knee-roll, but all the signs point to an injustice! 138/37.3 finds the edge, England have the breakthrough! Bell dangles it in the channel, tempting Bosch with a hint of lift on a fifth-stump line, a feathered edge to Jones and England are in the mix 21/136.2 snared at slip on the rebound, brilliant reflexes! Back of a length, trampoline bounce as Dercksen looks to flash it away on the cut but is cramped for room. The top edge flies high to Knight at second slip who can only parry it up, but Ecclestone is the first to react and pounces on the rebound! Big moment for England on the stroke of the interval, to change the mood of the session. 113/282.1 you bet she can, snicked off! Attacking length, full and in the channel. Brings her forward on the drive, and there's appreciable movement away off the seam to take the edge. Jones does the rest, and England have the huge wicket of Luus 259/673.6 pins back the off stump! Ryana MacDonald-Gay has her maiden Test wicket, and it's a beauty! She was probing the wicket-to-wicket line, and this one just gripped enough to wriggle around Kapp's loose drive. Superb ball to end a mighty knock 237/475.2 snorter from MacDonald-Gay! Skids through from back of a length, relentless line on the top of off, de Klerk plays back and snicks off, Jones up to the stumps grabs the edge with glee! 237/585.2 chipped straight to mid-on, soft as a kitten's fur! Nothing shot from Tryon, looking to work it away through the leg side. Fullish, sliding onto the pads, and probably deserves to be whipped away for four. But Tryon mistimed it horribly, lofting tamely into the leg side, and Beaumont pouched it 271/787.2 clonk! Off stump is pegged back, and Bell has a third. Jafta's feet are rooted to the crease as she plays airily at this, leaving a big gap between bat and pad for Bell's fullish ball to sneak through as it nips back off the seam and pings into the top of off 278/887.3 ping! Middle stump goes flying this time! Mlaba backs away, looking to create some room and flash hard through the off side. But she misses and Bell hits, the outswinger ripping middle stump out of the ground. Bell has four, and is on a hat-trick... 278/988.4 smashed on the back pad, up goes the finger! That looked absolutely stone-dead. Fullish outswinger, beat the defensive push, and looked like to be crashing into the top of the stumps 281/10Extras20 (b 12, lb 7, w 1)TOTAL281 all out (88.4 Overs, RR: 3.16)Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Anneke Bosch, 7.3 ov), 2-113 (Annerie Dercksen, 36.2 ov), 3-138 (Laura Wolvaardt, 44.5 ov), 4-237 (Marizanne Kapp, 73.6 ov), 5-237 (Nadine de Klerk, 75.2 ov), 6-259 (Sune Luus, 82.1 ov), 7-271 (Chloe Tryon, 85.2 ov), 8-278 (Sinalo Jafta, 87.2 ov), 9-278 (Nonkululeko Mlaba, 87.3 ov), 10-281 (Ayanda Hlubi, 88.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB L Filer 17 1 53 2 3.11 1 0 LK Bell 13 2 49 4 3.76 0 0 S Ecclestone 25 9 40 1 1.60 0 0 Nat Sciver-Brunt 7.4 1 25 1 3.26 0 0 R MacDonald-Gay 15 4 50 2 3.33 0 0 CE Dean 11 1 45 0 4.09 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.2 snicked off this time, a 19-ball duck for Bouchier! A brilliant hundred on her first day as a Test cricketer and a painful innings on her second. Top work from Hlubi, using the crease to angle this in before it nipped away just a touch off the seam. Kisses the outside edge and Jafta takes the catch. South Africa strike early 3/119.4 massive appeal, stone-dead with the inswinger! That's magnificent bowling, Beaumont's bat comes across her front pad as she seeks to defend, but the ball thuds juicily into her knee-roll. South Africa have their incision 42/269.1 pinned on the pad sweeping, Knight falls for 90! Full, drifting into the pad with a hint of turn away. It looked tight live, but with no DRS, Knight has no choice but to walk off. Mlaba has five, and nine in the match! 229/836.1 chopped on! Mlaba gets the wicket she was after. Dropped on 19, Sciver-Brunt falls for 37 four overs later. She was shaping to cut but this ball kept lowish, and skewed onto the stumps via the bottom edge 109/343.4 sliced to short third! Wyatt-Hodge throws her head back in frustration. Nadine de Klerk and Sekhukhune had a discussion after the second ball of this over about Wyatt-Hodge's penchant for slicing the ball away behind point, and she fell right into their trap. Just a hint of width, good length outside off stump, and flashed hard to Bosch who pouched a sharp chance 140/455.2 hacked high off a leading edge! Jones took the cue and tried to step up the tempo, but she was hitting across the line and Wolvaardt was on hand in the covers to pocket the swirling chance. You sense from that stroke that England won't be batting much longer 182/557.6 scooped up diving forward! Dean's unconvincing stay ends with a loose flick up into the leg-sided ball, Sekhukhune sprawled forward at short midwicket and got her fingers under the looping chance. Mlaba has seven in the match 188/667.5 huge appeal on the sweep! Ecclestone almost started walking as she stood up from her stance. Wicket-to-wicket line, mistimed her stroke across the line. That is eight in the match for Mlaba! 224/771.5 bursts through the gate, Mlaba has 10! The first 10-wicket match haul by a South African woman. She was underused on the first day after two expensive overs but has underlined has class ever since. Tossed up, drifts into the gap between bat and pad, and crashes into the stumps 232/974.1 shimmies down, but whips straight to short midwicket! Uses her feet and looks to loft over the leg side, but picks out the fielder to present a simple chance 236/10Extras23 (b 20, lb 3)TOTAL236 all out (74.1 Overs, RR: 3.18)Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Maia Bouchier, 5.2 ov), 2-42 (Tammy Beaumont, 19.4 ov), 3-109 (Nat Sciver-Brunt, 36.1 ov), 4-140 (Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 43.4 ov), 5-182 (Amy Jones, 55.2 ov), 6-188 (Charlie Dean, 57.6 ov), 7-224 (Sophie Ecclestone, 67.5 ov), 8-229 (Heather Knight, 69.1 ov), 9-232 (Ryana MacDonald-Gay, 71.5 ov), 10-236 (Lauren Filer, 74.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB M Kapp 4 3 2 0 0.50 0 0 A Hlubi 3 2 1 1 0.33 0 0 A Dercksen 5 1 24 0 4.80 0 0 N Mlaba 26 4 67 6 2.57 0 0 TS Sekhukhune 12 3 35 2 2.91 0 0 N de Klerk 10.1 2 24 1 2.36 0 0 CL Tryon 5 0 28 0 5.60 0 0 S Luus 9 0 32 0 3.55 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.6 nips back a mile, and smacks Wolvaardt on the pad. Up goes the finger! Wolvaardt was camped on the back foot to a good length ball that kept low and zipped back in off the seam. Trapped on the back leg, and after copping a shocker in the first innings, Wolvaardt can't have too many arguments with the decision in the second 8/15.2 trapped on the pad, and triggered! Bosch can't believe she's been given out. Wide on the crease, back of a length and keeps low to hit the front pad. It looked to the naked eye as though it might have been sliding past leg stump, but umpire Agenbag thought otherwise and there's no DRS to save her! 12/28.5 flicked up to bat-pad! England are adamant there's an inside-edge! The umpires are going upstairs to check it... which is intriguing, given there is no DRS. This is very much an umpire review, but there's no doubt it has carried to Beaumont under the lid at short leg, she pouched it at chest-height. Was umpire Klasste unsighted? Not sure how she could have been. Dercksen shook her head as soon as the ball looped up, she was sure there was no inside-edge. And the verdict is out! This has rumpus written all over it! 22/310.2 pings the top of off stump! That is a wonderful length, and South Africa are in tatters! Bell hits the pitch hard outside off, finds a hint of movement back through a gaping gate. Rattles the pole, and this contest is ending in a hurry now 31/417.4 that's a stunning grab at silly point! Ecclestone forces Kapp onto the back foot, finds some extra lift into the shoulder of the bat, and Beaumont under the lid flings herself forward, scooping the ball off the turf, inches from the crease! Ecclestone hasn't conceded a run yet, and now she's grabbed her second wicket! 44/811.3 back on the stumps, opens the face for a tap to the off side... and is this a run-out?! England are pretty convinced! Jones scooped up the shy from backward point, rolls with the momentum, breaks the stumps with de Klerk nowhere in the frame! A six-ball pair for de Klerk, and her only contribution to the second duck was an erroneous call! 31/513.4 huge appeal, no stroke offered, up goes the finger! A shocker from Tryon, misjudging the fuller length as the armball swung in. Was struck outside the line, but with no shot offered, the only thing that mattered was whether the stumps would have been broken. Would have been clipping off, by the looks of it, but another marginal call! 33/614.5 pinned on the pads, another one bites the dust! Fuller length from Bell, she's got her inswinger cooking at the moment, tails in at Jafta's pads, and there's really not much doubt about that one, as the keeper misses her loose waft across the line 44/719.4 charges down, slaps hard to mid-off on the bounce. Clangs off Bell's shin, and she gathers and throws down the stumps at the non-striker's end... dreadful running from Mlaba, whose bat was hovering over the crease in mid-air as she looked to get out the way of the throw, but not grounded! Given out on referral, and with Hlubi absent hurt, England have won! 64/10Extras6 (b 5, lb 1)TOTAL64 all out (19.4 Overs, RR: 3.25)Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Laura Wolvaardt, 2.6 ov), 2-12 (Anneke Bosch, 5.2 ov), 3-22 (Annerie Dercksen, 8.5 ov), 4-31 (Sune Luus, 10.2 ov), 5-31 (Nadine de Klerk, 11.3 ov), 6-33 (Chloe Tryon, 13.4 ov), 7-44 (Sinalo Jafta, 14.5 ov), 8-44 (Marizanne Kapp, 17.4 ov), 9-64 (Nonkululeko Mlaba, 19.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB LK Bell 9 4 27 4 3.00 0 0 L Filer 5 3 12 1 2.40 0 0 S Ecclestone 4.4 3 7 2 1.50 0 0 R MacDonald-Gay 1 0 12 0 12.00 0 0
Match Details
Toss
England Women , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
England Women won the one-off match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
10.00 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 17.00
Match days
15,16,17 December 2024 (4-day match)
Women's Test debut
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Close of Play
- Sun, 15 Dec - day 1 - South Africa Women 1st innings 17/0 (L Wolvaardt 8*, A Bosch 6*, 6 ov)
- Mon, 16 Dec - day 2 - England Women 2nd innings 31/1 (TT Beaumont 8*, HC Knight 19*, 14 ov)
- Tue, 17 Dec - day 3 - South Africa Women 2nd innings 64 (19.4 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- England Women: 50 runs in 23.3 overs (141 balls), Extras 6
- Drinks: England Women - 75/2 in 31.0 overs (HC Knight 35, Nat Sciver-Brunt 18)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 80 balls (HC Knight 12, Nat Sciver-Brunt 31, Ex 8)
- England Women: 100 runs in 34.2 overs (206 balls), Extras 14
- HC Knight: 50 off 99 balls (8 x 4)
- England Women: 150 runs in 45.1 overs (271 balls), Extras 16
- Lunch: England Women - 167/4 in 49.0 overs (HC Knight 57, AE Jones 21)
- England Women: 200 runs in 61.5 overs (371 balls), Extras 22
- Drinks: England Women - 224/7 in 67.5 overs (HC Knight 89)
- Innings Break: England Women - 236/10 in 74.1 overs (LK Bell 3)
- South Africa Women 2nd innings
- Tea: South Africa Women - 12/2 in 5.2 overs (A Dercksen 0)
- Drinks: South Africa Women - 44/8 in 17.4 overs (TS Sekhukhune 0)
- South Africa Women: 50 runs in 18.4 overs (112 balls), Extras 6
- South Africa Women: 50 runs in 13.4 overs (82 balls), Extras 7
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 73 balls (L Wolvaardt 23, A Dercksen 23, Ex 5)
- Drinks: South Africa Women - 77/1 in 21.0 overs (L Wolvaardt 36, A Dercksen 27)
- L Wolvaardt: 50 off 99 balls (9 x 4)
- South Africa Women: 100 runs in 31.6 overs (192 balls), Extras 8
- Lunch: South Africa Women - 113/2 in 36.2 overs (L Wolvaardt 58)
- South Africa Women: 150 runs in 49.3 overs (297 balls), Extras 14
- Drinks: South Africa Women - 167/3 in 53.0 overs (S Luus 26, M Kapp 15)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 84 balls (S Luus 25, M Kapp 23, Ex 4)
- South Africa Women: 200 runs in 62.6 overs (378 balls), Extras 18
- Tea: South Africa Women - 225/3 in 69.0 overs (S Luus 47, M Kapp 48)
- M Kapp: 50 off 64 balls (10 x 4)
- S Luus: 50 off 124 balls (8 x 4)
- Bad Weather: South Africa Women - 237/4 in 74.5 overs (S Luus 50, N de Klerk 0)
- South Africa Women: 250 runs in 77.6 overs (468 balls), Extras 19
- New ball taken at 80.1 overs
- Drinks: South Africa Women - 278/8 in 87.2 overs (TS Sekhukhune 5)
- Innings Break: South Africa Women - 281/10 in 88.4 overs (TS Sekhukhune 7)
- England Women 2nd innings
- End Of Day: England Women - 31/1 in 14.0 overs (TT Beaumont 8, HC Knight 19)
- England Women 1st innings
- England Women: 50 runs in 10.5 overs (65 balls), Extras 5
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 65 balls (TT Beaumont 19, ME Bouchier 27, Ex 5)
- Drinks: England Women - 67/1 in 14.0 overs (ME Bouchier 39, HC Knight 0)
- England Women: 100 runs in 25.2 overs (152 balls), Extras 8
- ME Bouchier: 50 off 71 balls (9 x 4, 1 x 6)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 82 balls (ME Bouchier 27, HC Knight 20, Ex 3)
- Lunch: England Women - 103/1 in 27.0 overs (ME Bouchier 54, HC Knight 20)
- England Women: 150 runs in 36.4 overs (220 balls), Extras 9
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 57 balls (ME Bouchier 30, Nat Sciver-Brunt 22, Ex 1)
- Drinks: England Women - 189/2 in 42.0 overs (ME Bouchier 93, Nat Sciver-Brunt 46)
- Nat Sciver-Brunt: 50 off 46 balls (9 x 4)
- England Women: 200 runs in 43.3 overs (261 balls), Extras 9
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 98 balls (ME Bouchier 39, Nat Sciver-Brunt 60, Ex 1)
- ME Bouchier: 100 off 124 balls (18 x 4, 2 x 6)
- England Women: 250 runs in 51.1 overs (307 balls), Extras 10
- 3rd Wicket: 150 runs in 146 balls (ME Bouchier 60, Nat Sciver-Brunt 88, Ex 2)
- Nat Sciver-Brunt: 100 off 96 balls (16 x 4)
- Tea: England Women - 292/3 in 60.0 overs (Nat Sciver-Brunt 102, DN Wyatt 10)
- England Women: 300 runs in 63.2 overs (380 balls), Extras 13
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 86 balls (Nat Sciver-Brunt 16, AE Jones 33, Ex 1)
- England Women: 350 runs in 76.4 overs (460 balls), Extras 14
- Drinks: England Women - 371/7 in 84.4 overs (S Ecclestone 3)
- New ball taken at 90.1 overs
- Innings Break: England Women - 395/9 in 92.0 overs (L Filer 0, LK Bell 0)
- South Africa Women 1st innings
- End Of Day: South Africa Women - 17/0 in 6.0 overs (L Wolvaardt 8, A Bosch 6)
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