{"id":19310,"date":"2024-11-27T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2024-11-27T21:34:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:34:01","slug":"england-punish-sloppy-south-africa-to-seal-t20-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19310","title":{"rendered":"England punish sloppy South Africa to seal T20 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England were solid if unspectacular in the opening T20 in East London on Saturday, but this was an utterly dominant victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They made a poor start, slipping to 15-2 when Maia Bouchier chipped the ball to mid-wicket for 20, before Sophia Dunkley fell for a duck two balls later with a nervy prod that flicked off the inside edge and onto the stumps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That brought Sciver-Brunt to the middle to join Wyatt-Hodge and England never looked back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were given a helping hand by South Africa, who dropped Wyatt-Hodge twice, on nine and 29, while Sciver-Brunt was also dropped on 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts struggled with their line and length, failing to take advantage of a pitch that offered more pace and bounce than the stodgy surface in East London.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wyatt-Hodge&#8217;s brutal innings included 15 fours and one huge six over long-on, before she departed after a well-directed De Klerk yorker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That failed to halt England&#8217;s momentum as lively cameos from Heather Knight, who made 26 off 19, and Amy Jones, 15 off seven, ensured England passed 200 for just the fourth time in T20 internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only one side has ever chased down a target of 200 or more in women&#8217;s T20 internationals and it never looked like happening here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sciver-Brunt removed opener Tazmin Brits for a duck in the opening over of South Africa&#8217;s reply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glenn then ripped through South Africa&#8217;s middle order, removing Faye Tunnicliffe, Annerie Dercksen and Nondumiso Shangase &#8211; the latter two with consecutive balls &#8211; to reduce South Africa to 86-5 and remove any urgency from the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The returning Chloe Tryon showed some resistance with 30 from 24 balls before becoming the fourth batter to be clean bowled by Glenn to all but secure victory for England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c170k1q10rwo\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England were solid if unspectacular in the opening T20 in East London on Saturday, but this was an utterly dominant victory. They made a poor start, slipping to 15-2 when Maia Bouchier chipped the ball to mid-wicket for 20, before Sophia Dunkley fell for a duck two balls later with a nervy prod that flicked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}