England got easy win with the help of Skiver-Brint and Eccleston
Nat Sciver-Brunt produced one of the innings of the Women's T20 World Cup so far to guide England home in the final over, against South Africa. Her 48 not out was not only the most substantial of the match, it was also the most aggressive, coming off 36 deliveries.
It was Sciver-Brunt's 64-run stand with Danni Wyatt-Hodge that swung the match definitively in support of Britain, as they sought after an objective of 125.
South Africa's spinners had been bold, especially Nonkululeko Mlaba, who took 1 for 22 from her four overs. Be that as it may, with Britain's solid batting line-up, they required a greater amount of the possibilities the bowlers made to be taken. South Africa couldn't gain by two half-chances presented by Wyatt-Hodge, and however Sciver-Brunt rode her karma somewhat as well, none of the mis-hits went to defenders.
The success passes on Britain in a solid situation to meet all requirements for the semi-finals, with two successes from two and a strong net run pace of 0.653. South Africa have more work to do.
Sciver-Brunt causes a ruckus
Despite the fact that Britain had been mindful so as not to lose wickets from the beginning, they required an infusion of energy through the center overs to set them appropriately on course for triumph, and Sciver-Brunt was the lady to give it. She was promptly unique at the wrinkle, hitting her fourth ball for four behind square on the offside, prior to sinking into her standard cadence of picking goes through the legside.
She would regularly rearrange to off and focus on the square leg limit against the spinners, regardless of whether, on such a sluggish surface, she didn't necessarily in all cases track down the timing. She hit 32 of her runs in the circular segment between fine leg and profound midwicket, scoring four limits that way.
However Wyatt-Hodge was confused with 11 still to get off 12 conveyances, Sciver-Brunt struck a four in every one of the last two overs, and chilled the game.
Between them, left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone, legspinner Sarah Glenn, and offspinner Charlie Dignitary bowled 12 overs for 58 runs, and took four wickets. Linsey Smith, likewise a left-arm spinner, took 1 for 32 off her four overs as well.
In any case, it was the tight, shifted bowling of Ecclestone and Glenn that truly held the scoring down through the center overs. Ecclestone got the two greatest resistance wickets - bowling Laura Wolvaardt in the sixteenth over, prior to crashing another into the stumps of a progressing Marizanne Kapp int he nineteenth over. She wrapped up with figures of 2 for 15 from her four - the best returns in the game.
She'd began so emphatically. South Africa's commander won the throw in what was a clearly bat-first circumstance, and looked great in the powerplay, in which she scored 22 off 15 balls, helping take South Africa to a sound 37 for 1. However at that point Britain's spinners applied the brakes, and she couldn't find the limit until the end of her innings, which went until the sixteenth over. She kept a fair scoring rate thanks to her singles and twos, yet against a batting request of Britain's quality, South Africa required a score nearby 150 to have a solid sense of security.
Then, in the field, she let two half-chances off Wyatt-Hodge fall through her outstretched fingers, the first of those let-offs coming when the hitter was on just 8.
In any case, Wolvaardt's was the most significant of South Africa's singular commitments - she made 42 off 39.