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Second ODI, Durban
South Africa 135 (31.3 overs): Tryon 45 (49); Dean 4-45
England 137-4 (23.5 overs): Beaumont 34 (52); Dercksen 2-22
England won by six wickets; bid level 1-1
England levelled the one-day planetary bid against South Africa with a objective six-wicket triumph aft the hosts' chaotic middle-order illness successful Durban.
The Proteas were successful power astatine 72-2 aft 16 overs earlier calamitously losing 5 wickets for 4 runs successful the abstraction of 12 balls, with England spinner Charlie Dean taking a hat-trick divided crossed 2 overs.
Dean finished with 4-45 arsenic the hosts were bowled retired for 135 successful 31.3 overs, portion chap spinner Sophie Ecclestone and seamer Lauren Filer took 3 wickets each.
Tammy Beaumont and Maia Bouchier added 69 for the archetypal wicket successful England's affirmative reply, earlier Danni Wyatt-Hodge's unbeaten 25 steered them implicit the enactment successful the 24th over.
The play of South Africa's innings was preceded by a diligent basal of 58 betwixt Annerie Dercksen and skipper Laura Wolvaardt, aft Filer's eye-catching opening burst saw the Proteas reduced to 14-2 wrong the archetypal 4 overs.
The dismissal of Dercksen triggered the illness arsenic she fell to Dean for 29 successful the 17th over, earlier prima all-rounder Marizanne Kapp uncharacteristically chipped to mid-off for a duck 3 balls later.
Ecclestone claimed the prized wicket of Laura Wolvaardt for 35 successful the pursuing over, earlier Dean completed her hat-trick with Nadine de Klerk caught astatine gaffe and Sinalo Jafta pinned lbw to permission South Africa's innings successful tatters connected 76-7.
Chloe Tryon's counter-attacking 45 from 49 rescued the Proteas from full capitulation but, with truthful fewer runs to defend, their bowlers struggled to physique unit and England made airy enactment of a humble chase.
The bid decider takes spot astatine Potchefstroom connected Wednesday.
After a disappointing bid opener, erstwhile they were bowled retired for 186 successful Kimberley, England were successful request of a effect and their bowlers delivered successful ruthless fashion.
But earlier Dean and Ecclestone got to enactment it was Filer who was electric, making the astir of the caller shot with a hostile opening four-over spell that acceptable the code aft skipper Heather Knight won the toss.
Opener Tazmin Brits drove her archetypal shot for 4 but Filer instantly corrected herself, firing the shot straighter and knocking mediate stump retired of the crushed earlier she gave fig 3 Sune Luus a pugnacious short-ball examination.
Luus was forced to duck underneath her archetypal shot arsenic Filer greeted her to the mediate with a bouncer and continued to unit her backmost into her crease, yet nailing her program to perfection arsenic a fuller transportation bushed the batter for gait and the stumps were splattered erstwhile again.
From there, skipper Wolvaardt and the emerging endowment of Dercksen regrouped and blunted England's onslaught effectively, calmly rotating the onslaught and pouncing connected immoderate width to accumulate a dependable 50 partnership.
But chaos followed arsenic Dean - with a immense helping manus from South Africa's atrocious shot-selection - turned the crippled connected its head.
While nary azygous subordinate is ever to blasted for a collapse, Dercksen's brushed dismissal kickstarted it and she was dealt a harsh acquisition successful taking work erstwhile you are successful arsenic a batter.
The all-rounder chipped an innocuous transportation from Dean to constituent aft a lapse successful attraction pursuing the drinks break, earlier Kapp's bizarre changeable rocked the line-up of which she is truthful often the saviour successful tricky situations.
Wolvaardt, playing her 100th ODI, made a costly mistake successful judgement by trying to play Ecclestone disconnected the backmost ft having antecedently been truthful disciplined - and from determination the Proteas unravelled with their 2 superstars gone successful the abstraction of 4 balls.
Filer returned aft Tryon added a speedy basal of 26 with Nonkululeko Mlaba, bowling the second with a fierce yorker and finishing with 3-32 - including an mean gait of conscionable nether 74mph, the fastest spell of her ODI vocation to date.
England indispensable present support their precious commodity with the Ashes looming successful the caller year.
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