{"id":187954,"date":"2025-10-03T17:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187954\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:46:17","slug":"england-score-big-win-over-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187954\/","title":{"rendered":"England score big win over South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linsey Smith and England’s spinners put South Africa to the sword in a comprehensive 10-wicket victory in their Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025<\/a> match at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on Friday.<\/p>\n

Only Sinalo Jafta made a score in the double figures for the Proteas, with 22, as the three-time champions split the wickets between them.<\/p>\n

In response, Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont chased down their modest target of 70 in just 14.1 overs.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s spin trio of Linsey Smith, Sophie Ecclestone and Charlie Dean took seven wickets between them in England\u2019s 10-wicket win over South Africa.<\/p>\n

In a repeat of the 2017 and 2022 semi-finals, England were instantly on the front foot as captain Laura Wolvaardt was caught and bowled by Smith for five.<\/p>\n

Her fellow opener Tazmin Brits departed for the same score as Smith\u2019s second victim with former skipper Sune Luus being clean bowled by Lauren Bell for two.<\/p>\n

Marizanne Kapp departed for four as she became Smith\u2019s third wicket and South Africa slipped to 19 for four.<\/p>\n

Anneke Bosch and Jafta provided some resistance, but England continued to chip away as Nat Sciver-Brunt took two wickets, with Ecclestone following suit with two wicket maidens as she dismissed Jafta.<\/p>\n

With her fellow spinners impressing, it took a little while for Dean to be brought into the attack, but the off-break bowler soon made an impact with the final two wickets to see South Africa bowled out for their second lowest total at a World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

England had all the time in the world to chase down their target of 70 runs, which meant openers Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones were cautious.<\/p>\n

They came up against the fearsome firepower of Kapp, who bowled in tandem with the spin of Chloe Tryon.<\/p>\n

While South Africa had struggled to deal with England\u2019s spinners, Jones and Beaumont were able to work steady boundaries off Tryon.<\/p>\n

Masabata Klaas dropped a catch off her own bowling as Jones survived on 31, eventually posting 40 from 50 balls with Beaumont making 21 from 35.<\/p>\n

ENG-W vs SA-W, Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025, brief scores: South Africa 69 all out in 20.4 overs (Sinalo Jafta 22; Linsey Smith 3\/7, Nat Sciver-Brunt 2\/5) lost to England 73\/0 in 14.1 overs (Amy Jones 40 not out) by 10 wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linsey Smith and England’s spinners put South Africa to the sword in a comprehensive 10-wicket victory in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-187954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}