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Chopped on! Sciver-Brunt goes back to cut and the ball upholds a little low, the under edge onto the stumps disaccuseting the death-rattle. She was dropped on 19 and eventuassociate departs for a well made 37.
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Gone! Beaumont is undone by a nip-backing insprosperger, the ball thudding into her pad in front of all three stumps giving the umpire no reason to mistrust and duly elevate the finger. A reward for fine bowling so far this morning from South Africa.
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Hello and greet to day three of South Africa v England in Bloemfontein. After classy centuries from Maia Bouchier and Nat Sciver Brunt in their first innings and with Lauren Bell heading up an astonishive all-round team bowling percreateance with four wickets, Heather Knight’s side are in a directing position and will be watching to set up triumph over the next day or so.
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The captain and sfinished hand Tammy Beaumont are at the crease with a direct of 145 and nine more wickets in which to stretch it to a suit prosperning position. South Africa need speedy wickets to uphold their fourth innings chase to a administerable one. It promises to be a corker.
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The action gets away in a little over half an hour, I’ll be here to achieve you thcimpolite the first half of the day before throprosperg to Daniel Harris for the second. Let us understand your thoughts, theories and festive musings at the email on the left hand side of this page.
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It’s the most crickety time of the year.
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Key events
47th over: England 155-4 (Knight 56, Jones 10) de Klerk comes back for an over or two before lunch. Here’s the official word from Cricket South Africa on Hlubi:
Ayanda Hlubi has been ruled out of the remainder of the Test suit but could bat if need be as a No.11 batter. She underwent a scan this morning which validateed a Grade 1 hip flexor tear. Tazmin Brits has swapd her on the field.”
46th over: England 152-4 (Knight 55, Jones 9) Sune Luus comes on for a whirl with a scant minutes before the lunch fracture. She bowled a lengthy spell in the first innings and did a decent job of upholding an finish quiet. Three individuals pocketed off her first.
45th over: England 149-4 (Knight 53, Jones 8) Amy Jones shows her class thcimpolite the leg side with a flick off her hip that races thcimpolite the gap and away for four. Just hearing that Hlubi will not achieve the field aachieve for the rest of this suit, a authentic shame for her and shows the perils of joiners only getting intermittent Test suites, the strain put on the body is much more heightened than in ODIs and T20s.
44th over: England 144-4 (Knight 52, Jones 4) Amy Jones is the novel batter, she blocks out her first dedwellry from Sekhukhune before hitting her second to the square leg fence with Swiss clock timing. Welcome.
WICKET! Wyatt-Hodge c Bosch b Sekhukhune 23 (England 140-4)
Wyatt Hodge hits consecutive boundaries off Sekhukhune but the bowler has the last chuckle as a length ball is spliced into the hands of Bosch in the slips, a keen catch pouched and Wyatt-Hodge has to depart.
43rd over: England 131-3 (Knight 51, Wyatt-Hodge 15) Ayanda Hlubi can be spotted doing some stretches with the physio on the boundary edge, South Africa could reassociate do with her shaking off her groin strain and getting back out there some time very soon.
42nd over: England 129-3 (Knight 50, Wyatt-Hodge 14) Sekhukhune has a slip in place and safeens slfinishergs up with a mhelpen. England’s direct up to 243 runs, a couple more runs and South Africa will need to rack up the highest fourth innings total in women’s Test history. Don’t equitable achieve my word for it.
41st over: England 129-3 (Knight 50, Wyatt-Hodge 14) Heather Knight transports up her fifth Test fifty with a glide to backward point. It comes off 99 balls, she’s been watchful this morning but has rotated the strike and put the terrible balls away. Textbook Test suit batting… if such a slfinisherg exists these days.
40th over: England 128-3 (Knight 49, Wyatt-Hodge 14) A juicy and almost snow capped brimming toss is served up by Sekhukhune first ball, Wyatt-Hodge throws the bat at it and gets a meaty edge away to the proset up third boundary.
39th over: England 122-3 (Knight 48, Wyatt-Hodge 9) Three achieven off Mlaba, England not being put under enough presbrave, free balls straightforward to come by. The visitors are effectively 236-3 with half an hour until lunch. Sekhukhune is being called, which I slfinisherk is a excellent shift. South Africa need to uphold taking wickets.
38th over: England 119-3 (Knight 48, Wyatt-Hodge 8) Tryon leaks seven runs from her tardyst over, a low brimming toss is a gift to Wyatt-Hodge, who’s eyes airy up as she sweeps it away for four.
37th over: England 112-3 (Knight 47, Wyatt-Hodge 3) Danni Wyatt-Hodge is the novel batter, she can achieve this game well out of South Africa’s accomplish in double speedy time if she gets going. She picks up two individuals with a flick to leg and cut to proset up point.
WICKET! Nat Sciver-Brunt b Mlaba 37 (England 109-3)
Chopped on! Sciver-Brunt goes back to cut and the ball upholds a little low, the under edge onto the stumps disaccuseting the death-rattle. She was dropped on 19 and eventuassociate departs for a well made 37.
36th over: England 109-2 (Knight 46, Sciver-Brunt 37) Fairy gentle hands from Knight as she uncovers the face and glides for four thcimpolite the vacant slip region. It watched sairyly edgy on the rejoin but I’m giving her the profit of the mistrust that it was intentional.
35th over: England 103-2 (Knight 41, Sciver-Brunt 36) Sciver-Brunt picks up four with a fine sweep. England notch up the 100 and are commencening to quicken the run rate.
34th over: England 99-2 (Knight 41, Sciver-Brunt 32) Chloe Tryon is bowling at least one boundary ball per over and watching a lot less dangerening than the rest of the bowlers on show this morning. If this doesn’t get her a wicket then I don’t understand what will… Knight sweeps fine for four down to the fine leg fence.
33rd over: England 93-2 (Knight 36, Sciver-Brunt 31) A massive drop behind the stumps! Mlaba gets the edge off Nat Sciver-Brunt’s forward poke but Jafta spills it! It popped in and out, huge groans in the field. Salt, greet Wound. NSB shrugs off the drop by looting three boundaries off the rest of the over – a enticeive back foot drive thcimpolite the covers the pick of them. Heads droop a little on the home side as the direct goes above 200.
32nd over: England 81-2 (Knight 36, Sciver-Brunt 19) Tryon frees the presbrave once aachieve, spearing a ball down the leg side that rolls away for four byes and chaseing up with a expansive ball outside off stump that is crunched to the off side by Knight, the boundary rider managing to swoop round and uphold it to a individual. England’s direct up to 195 runs, South Africa need to fracture this partnership.
31st over: England 75-2 (Knight 35, Sciver-Brunt 18) A tidy Mlaba mhelpen achieves us to drinks.
30th over: England 75-2 (Knight 35, Sciver-Brunt 18) Chloe Tryon is coming on, another transport inant alter, the left-arm spinner wasn’t at her best in the first innings and she drops illogicalinutive with her first over. Sciver-Brunt pulls a half-tracker to the midwicket fence.
29th over: England 68-2 (Knight 34, Sciver-Brunt 12) Two individuals off a tidy over from Mlaba. Fifteen overs in the first hour, one wicket to South Africa and 37 runs to England. Good Test criggit.
28th over: England 66-2 (Knight 33, Sciver-Brunt 11) Dercksen has reassociate safeened up and sfinishs down a mhelpen, discovering some pace and shiftment to uphold NSB truthful.
27th over: England 66-2 (Knight 33, Sciver-Brunt 11) Mlaba commences well, fairy and dip draprosperg Sciver-Brunt into a drive and the edge squirts expansive of slip and away for four.
26th over: England 60-2 (Knight 32, Sciver-Brunt 6) Dercksen safeens up after that freey-goosey first over. Just a individual to Knight. de Klerk is going to have a breather and we’ll have some spin in the create of Nonkululeko Mlaba. An transport inant spell coming up for her, she’ll have quite a bit of graft to get thcimpolite over the coming hours.
25th over: England 59-2 (Knight 31, Sciver-Brunt 6) de Klerk into her sixth over of the morning. She’s been astonishive and accurate, equitable a individual off it. How many more can she reel off in this heat though?
24th over: England 58-2 (Knight 30, Sciver-Brunt 6) Annerie Dercksen go ins the strike and instantly the presbrave lifts as she can’t discover her line and length. A expansive down the leg side is chaseed by a stylish cut for four by Knight. Gah! A leg side expansive shuns the upholder and trickles away for another boundary. Ten off the over.
23rd over: England 48-2 (Knight 25, Sciver-Brunt 5) Cneglect! Sciver-Brunt is blessed to persist the over! A directing edge descfinishs agonisingly illogicalinutive of the fielder at mid-on and then de Klerk has head in hands once aachieve the next ball – she shifts Chloe Tryon seal in catching on the leg side and Sciver-Brunt csurrfinisherly obliges straightaway, hitting the ball on the bounce to Chloe Tryon in the very same position. A couple of steps sealr and that was a catchable. Presbrave originateing in Bloemfontein.
22nd over: England 47-2 (Knight 25, Sciver-Brunt 4) Three off the over as Knight and NSB labor into the leg side. Plenty of chirp from the fielders and behind the stumps, South Africa understand this is the partnership they need to fracture before it achieves any authentic momentum.
21st over: England 44-2 (Knight 24, Sciver-Brunt 2) Just a individual off de Klerk’s tardyst. The seamers upholding it safe for South Africa, the authentic dispute will come if England uphold them out there into their second and third spells. It watchs a scorcher.
20th over: England 43-2 (Knight 24, Sciver-Brunt 1) Nat Sciver-Brunt, new off a first innings century, unites her captain in the middle. If she goes punctual then the home side will reassociate commence to consent. A flick off the toes to midwicket get’s NSB underway.
WICKET! Beaumont lbw b Sekhukhune 12 (England 42-2)
Gone! Beaumont is undone by a nip-backing insprosperger, the ball thudding into her pad in front of all three stumps giving the umpire no reason to mistrust and duly elevate the finger. A reward for fine bowling so far this morning from South Africa.
19th over: England 40-1 (Knight 24, Beaumont 12) The presbrave cooker equitable commences to hiss in Bloemfontein as a third mhelpen in a row is reeled off. Knight is firm in defence, de Klerk is discovering a bit of sprosperg thcimpolite the air.
18th over: England 40-1 (Knight 24, Beaumont 12) Consecutive mhelpens, Sekhukhune lands it on a handkerchief and South Africa uphold slfinishergs safe.
17th over: England 40-1 (Knight 24, Beaumont 12) de Klerk stitches together a mhelpen for the Proteas. Knight climbs into a dedwellry expansive of off stump but her mighty drive is straight to the fielder at point. The hands are stung and no run achieven. England’s direct is 154 runs, 100 more inserted to that and they’ll be evident favourites to achieve the game.
16th over: England 40-1 (Knight 24, Beaumont 12) There are a scant injury niggles in South Africa’s bowling line up, Marizanne Kapp is struggling by all accounts. She’s wearing her lengthy sleeve top in the field whereas she normassociate has the illogicalinutive sleeves on, it could jsut be sun shade but it might also be a sign that she isn’t schedulening on bowling many overs today. Tumi Sekhukhune has the second over of the day and it’s a decent one, equitable two individuals achieven off it.
15th over: England 38-1 (Knight 23, Beaumont 11) Beaumont tickles the first ball off her toes to uncover carry onings. De Klerk is brimming and watching for some shiftment with this ball only fourteen overs greater. Sboiling! Heather Knight is too excellent to let a floaty half volley go by unpunished and she leans into a cover drive and threads the gap skilbrimmingy to get the first boundary of the day. Conditions watch very excellent for batting.
The joiners achieve the field, an intriguing first session in prospect. Laura Wolvaardt’s South Africa need a couple of speedy wickets to put the presbrave on and originate brave that England don’t get too far in front. A airy breeze billows the shirts and flagpoles, Nadine de Klerk is going to bowl the first over. Tammy Beaumont on strike, let’s join!
Righto, my tv is now beaming in pictures of a luminous and sunny Bloemfontein into my rather murky front room in South London. Heather Knight is doing some shadow batting and the South African team are in a huddle on the boundary edge.
And here’s Ali’s alert of the men’s side going down in the final Test of the series in New Zealand, to dip into your Burford Browns:
Here’s Raf’s alert from Day two to dig into with your cornflakes:
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and greet to day three of South Africa v England in Bloemfontein. After classy centuries from Maia Bouchier and Nat Sciver Brunt in their first innings and with Lauren Bell heading up an astonishive all-round team bowling percreateance with four wickets, Heather Knight’s side are in a directing position and will be watching to set up triumph over the next day or so.
The captain and sfinished hand Tammy Beaumont are at the crease with a direct of 145 and nine more wickets in which to stretch it to a suit prosperning position. South Africa need speedy wickets to uphold their fourth innings chase to a administerable one. It promises to be a corker.
The action gets away in a little over half an hour, I’ll be here to achieve you thcimpolite the first half of the day before throprosperg to Daniel Harris for the second. Let us understand your thoughts, theories and festive musings at the email on the left hand side of this page.
It’s the most crickety time of the year.
