England romp to Take a look at match win over South Africa after skittling Proteas for 64

England romped to a 286-run win over South Africa on day three of the one-off Take a look at in Bloemfontein as they skittled the Proteas for his or her all-time lowest rating of 64.

The hosts had been demolished in 19.4 overs chasing a file 351 at Mangaung Oval, slipping to 33-6 inside 14 as Lauren Bell (4-27) and Lauren Filer (1-12) brought on havoc with the brand new ball earlier than all-rounders Nadine de Klerk and Chloe Tryon fell for geese.

The shortage of DRS on this match was as soon as once more a speaking level with Annerie Dercksen (9) given out caught at brief leg by the third umpire regardless of the absence of UltraEdge expertise to show she had hit Bell’s ball into Tammy Beaumont’s fingers.

South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt (4) and opening accomplice Anneke Bosch (4) had been out lbw to Bell and Filer respectively, whereas Dercksen’s controversial exit was adopted by Bell bowling Sune Luus via the gate for one with a peach that pinged off stump.

When De Klerk was run out by way of a mixture of Danni Wyatt-Hodge and wicketkeeper Amy Jones and Tryon was pinned in entrance by premier England spinner Sophie Ecclestone (2-7 from 4.4 overs), it was a matter of when and never if the vacationers clinched victory on the third night.

The successful second got here when Nonkululeko Mlaba (14) was run out by Bell on the non-striker’s finish after failing to floor her bat, with South Africa No 11 Ayanda Hlubi unable to take the sector as a result of harm, handing England their first Take a look at success in a decade – having gone winless since beating Australia in Perth in 2014.

Marizanne Kapp top-scored for South Africa with 21 earlier than falling sufferer to a wonderful catch from Beaumont at foolish level, whereas Participant of the Match Bell additionally eliminated Sinalo Jafta (0) leg earlier than for her eighth wicket within the Take a look at.

An preliminary Proteas collapse of 7-44 mirrored their first-innings failure once they tumbled from 237-3 to 281 all out in reply to England’s 395-9 declared to path by a mammoth 114.

Knight impresses in England second innings

Heather Knight’s England add victory within the Take a look at to their 3-0 sweep within the T20 sequence and 2-1 win within the ODI leg and can now head to Australia after Christmas for the Girls’s Ashes stuffed with confidence.

England had earlier been dismissed for 236, with Knight (90) falling 10 runs in need of what would have been a 3rd Take a look at hundred, after her 168 towards Australia in Canberra in 2022 and 157 towards the identical opposition on house soil again in 2013.

Knight was one among six second-innings wickets for Mlaba because the left-arm spinner backed up her 4 strikes first time round and claimed the primary 10-for by a South Africa girl in Assessments.

It was only a disgrace for Mlaba that her heroics got here in such a dispiriting defeat.

Mlaba sizzles however South Africa hunch

Mlaba clinched her 10-for with a ravishing supply that cleaned up Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual (4) via the gate, whereas she additionally accounted for Knight and Ecclestone (16) lbw on the sweep, bowled Nat Sciver-Brunt (37) and had Jones (24) and Charlie Dean (1) caught – Dean pouched brilliantly by Tumi Sekhukhune at midwicket.

Sciver-Brunt was dropped off Mlaba by wicketkeeper Jafta on 19 and went on to strike the spinner for 3 boundaries later in the identical over and another in her subsequent earlier than chopping on as she appeared to chop a supply that skidded via low.

Knight, who started day three 19 not out and along with her workforce 31-1 of their second innings, notched her fifth Take a look at fifty from 99 balls, and went on to share a stand of 67 with Sciver-Brunt after Beaumont (12) was trapped lbw by Sekhukhune (2-35).

Wyatt-Hodge sliced Sekhukhune to brief third for 23, whereas Filer (3) was final out for England, spooning De Klerk to midwicket.

Lack of DRS prices South Africa

Filer then had an early say with the ball as she and Bell ripped via the highest order and South Africa by no means recovered.

The Proteas had been effectively overwhelmed in the long run and may look to that first-innings batting hunch and unfastened bowling on the primary day as huge causes, though can even level to being stuffed by the absence of DRS.

The Dercksen drama on Tuesday got here after Beaumont was lucky to keep away from being dismissed lbw by Kapp from the second ball on day one and Wolvaardt was adjudged lbw to Ecclestone a day later regardless of feeling she had inside edged the supply.

Cricket South Africa have prioritised using DRS in ladies’s white-ball internationals as a result of hefty prices concerned.

Knight ‘happy’ with thumping win

England captain Heather Knight:

“There are only three of us in the squad that were involved in that Test win [against Australia in 2014]. We’ve had a lot of hard-fought draws and a couple of losses, so this is really pleasing.

“We have put the graft in over the previous couple of days. The tempo at which Maia [Bouchier] and Nat [Sciver-Brunt] batted on the opening day allowed us to regulate the sport… I am tremendous happy.

“The pitch was a brilliant Test wicket, it allowed batters to score runs, and the bowlers were able to take wickets.”

England in South Africa – full schedule

T20 sequence (England received 3-0)

ODI sequence (England received 2-1)

One-off Take a look at

• Bloemfontein – England received by 286 runs