England romp to win Test match over South Africa after skittling Proteas for 64 | Cricket news

England cruised to a 286-run victory over South Africa on the third day of the one-off Test in Bloemfontein as they skittled the Proteas to a low score of 64.

The hosts were bowled out in 19.4 overs after a record 351 at Mangaung Oval, slumping to 33-6 in 14 overs as Lauren Bell (4-27) and Lauren Filer (1-12) wreaked havoc with the ball new and all-rounders Nadine de Klerk and Chloe Tryon were dismissed for ducks.

The lack of DRS in this match was again a talking point with Annerie Dercksen (9) given out caught at short leg by the third umpire despite the lack of UltraEdge technology to prove she had hit the -delivery of Bell to Tammy Beaumont.

South African captain Laura Wolvaardt (4) and opening partner Anneke Bosch (4) were out lbw to Bell and Filer respectively, while Dercksen’s controversial exit was followed by Bell bowling Sune Luus from the door to one with a beauty that came out on a stalk.

When De Klerk was run out by a combination of Danni Wyatt-Hodge and wicketkeeper Amy Jones and Tryon was pinned in front by England’s premier spinner Sophie Ecclestone (2-7 from 4.4 overs), it was a matter of whether or not. when the tourists got the victory.

The winning moment came when Nonkululeko Mlaba (14) was dismissed by Bell at the non-striker’s end after failing to stick the bat, with South Africa No 11 Ayanda Hlubi unable to take the field due to injury , giving England their first Test win. in ten years.

Marizanne Kapp top scored for South Africa with 21 – only she and Mlaba made double figures – while Player of the Match Bell also removed Sinalo Jafta (0) leg before for her eighth Test wicket .

Proteas’ collapse of 7-44 reflected their failure in the first innings when they fell from 237-3 to 281 all out in response to England’s 395-9 declared trailing by a mammoth 114 runs.

Heather Knight’s England add to their Test success with a 3-0 sweep of the T20 series and a 2-1 win in the ODI match and now head to Australia after Christmas for the Women’s Ashes full of confidence.

England had earlier been dismissed for 236 in their second innings, with Knight (90) falling 10 runs short of what would have been a third Test hundred, following her 168 against Australia in Canberra in 2022 and 157 against the same opposition on home soil back in 2013.

Knight was one of six second innings wickets for Mlaba as the spinner backed up her first four strikes and claimed the first 10-for by a South African woman in Tests.

It was just a shame for Mlaba that her heroics came in such a desperate defeat.

Imlaba ends but South Africa declines

Mlaba capped her 10-wicket haul with a fine delivery that cleared Ryana MacDonald-Gay (4) through the wicket, while also accounting for Knight and Ecclestone (16) lbw on the sweep, bowled by Nat Sciver- Brunt (37) and had Jones (24) and Charlie Dean (1) caught.

Sciver-Brunt was dropped by Mlaba by wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta in the 19th over and continued to hit the spinner for three boundaries later in the same over and one more in her next before cutting as she looked to cut a delivery that skidded in the low

Knight, who started day three 19 not out and with her side 31-1 in their second innings, picked up her fifth Test from 99 balls, going on to share a stand of 67 with Sciver-Brunt after Beaumont (12) was caught. lbw by Tumi Sekhukhune.

Wyatt-Hodge cut Sekhukhune to short third for 23, while Filer was last out for England, spooning De Klerk to midwicket.

Filer then had an early say with the ball as she and Bell tore through the top order and South Africa never recovered.

The Proteas were well beaten in the end and can look to that first innings batting collapse and the loose bowling on day one as big reasons, although they will also point to being fed up by the lack of DRS .

The Dercksen drama on Tuesday came after Beaumont was lucky to avoid being dismissed lbw by Marizanne Kapp off the second ball on day one and Wolvaardt was adjudged lbw to Ecclestone a day later despite thinking she was in the end of delivery.

England in South Africa – full schedule

T20 series (England won 3-0)

ODI series (England won 2-1)

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