Player of the Match
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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

DN Wyatt
78(45) 15x4 - 1x6
Control %77%
  • Productive Shot
  • cut shot
  • 26 runs
  • 6x4 - 0x6
4 5 0 20 20 15 13 1
Nat Sciver-Brunt
67(43) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 16 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
5 13 7 7 5 5 15 10

Best performances - Bowlers

S Glenn
S Glenn
O4
M0
R20
W4
Eco5.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
3W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
A Hlubi
O2
M0
R19
W2
Eco9.50
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

South Africa Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

England Women led the 3-match series 2-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

18.00 start, First Session 18.00-19.30, Interval 19.30-19.50, Second Session 19.50-21.20

Match days

27 November 2024 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

END OF OVER:
20 | 12 Runs | SA-W: 168/6 (37 runs required, RR: 8.40)

  • Sinalo Jafta17 (9b)
  • Nadine de Klerk32 (21b)
  • Sophie Ecclestone4-0-40-0
  • Nat Sciver-Brunt4-0-32-1

9:22pm That will be all from us for tonight, folks. Hope you enjoyed our coverage and we hope to have your company for all the cricket that is lined up over the next few hours. Until next time, this is goodbye from Vairavan, me and everyone else at ESPNcricinfo. Take care!

Sarah Glenn, Player of the Match: Was not expecting it (this award), our batters were brilliant. Dan playing her way was awesome and then Nat doing her thing. It was to have a wicket-first mentality. Was trying to just keep it simple.

Heather Knight, England captain: Really pleased. That is what we are about as a batting group. Going two down, but Nat and Danni (going after the bowling). Would love to bat on that surface every day. When we get these sorts of conditions, we look to take the game on. Brilliant from those two and then some nice cameos towards the end - Amy with a few nice boundaries. That was the sort of track where you were going to get hit for boundaries, so keeping a little bit of perspective (was important as the bowling team). Nice to see Filer on a quick and bouncy wicket. We started and won the powerplay early and that put them on the back foot. Really pleasing and we continued to take wickets throughout, which is great.

Laura Wolvaardt, South Africa captain: Probably not our best performance all-round. Totally different conditions (to the first game), we maybe got carried away with the pace and bounce, and bowled too short and wide. They (England's bowlers) really tucked me up and executed much better on this wicket. (On if chasing a high score puts pressure on a young line-up) It does. But in a way, it also gives you a free hit. Guess it allows you to play with freedom. Unfortunate it did not go our way. Definitely (room for improvement). Should be a similar surface at the weekend and hopefully we can rectify (what went wrong today).

9:08pm South Africa gave it a rattle towards the end, with de Klerk, Dercksen, Jafta and Tryon producing enterprising cameos. The game, though, had passed them by much earlier. Most of the damage was done during the powerplay, when neither of Tunnicliffe or Wolvaardt could get going. Wolvaardt's dismissal in the tenth over tipped SA over the edge and that, despite managing 50 off the last five, was when things reached a point of no return.

A rare off-day for Ecclestone, who went for 40 in her four overs. Glenn, though, was right on the ball throughout. She struck the stumps on four different occasions, popping up with wickets just when SA threatened to shift momentum. Filer was also impressive with her pace, while Sciver-Brunt and Dean bagged a wicket apiece.

19.6
0
Ecclestone to Jafta, no run, that will be that! England win by 36 runs and they seal this series at the first time of asking! Zipped into the blockhole and Jafta, after some fun earlier in the over, cannot quite get this away. Jams it into her boot and the ball, rather anti-climactically, dribbles into the off side. A dot to end a high-scoring game, and England take an unassailable lead in this T20I series!
19.5
4
Ecclestone to Jafta, FOUR, this is quicker and flatter outside off, but still heads to the fence. Jafta goes after it and gets it fine past backward point for four!
19.4
6
Ecclestone to Jafta, SIX, high up in the air, and it carries all the way! Ecclestone invites Jafta to come down the track, and Jafta arrives to the six-hitting party. Gets close enough to the ball and launches it over long on!
19.3
1
Ecclestone to de Klerk, 1 run, slower and fuller just outside leg. de Klerk is beaten in the air and shanks it off the inside half of her bat towards long on
19.2
1
Ecclestone to Jafta, 1 run, darted in on a length on the pads. Jafta tugs it towards deep backward square leg
19.1
0
Ecclestone to Jafta, no run, fired in on a length just outside off. Jafta gets caught on the crease and wafts at it. Beaten for pace

Ecclestone to bowl the last over. Over the wicket

SA Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1T BritsL Wolvaardt
2nd42L WolvaardtF Tunnicliffe
3rd23L WolvaardtA Dercksen
4th20CL TryonA Dercksen
5th0CL TryonN Shangase
6th43CL TryonN de Klerk
7th39S JaftaN de Klerk