England punish sloppy South Africa to seal T20 series

Second T20, Benoni

England 204-4 (20 overs): Wyatt-Hodge 78 (45), Sciver-Brunt 67* (43)

South Africa 168-6 (20 overs): De Klerk 32* (21); Glenn 4-20

England triumph by 36 runs; pb bid 2-0

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England equalled their third-highest people successful women's T20 internationals to cruise to a 36-run triumph against South Africa and seal the three-match bid with a crippled to spare.

Heather Knight's broadside took vantage of immoderate wayward bowling and sloppy fielding to amass 202-4 from their 20 overs successful Benoni.

Danni Wyatt-Hodge, who was dropped twice, top-scored with a sparkling 78 from conscionable 45 balls, becoming the archetypal England pistillate to walk 3,000 runs successful T20 internationals.

Nat Sciver-Brunt continued her good signifier with an unbeaten 67 from 43 deliveries, her 3rd successive T20 half-century.

All of South Africa's bowlers went for astatine slightest 9 an over, with Nadine de Klerk's 2-36 the prime of immoderate different dispiriting figures.

South Africa could lone limp to 168-6 successful reply, with Sarah Glenn taking 4-20 - her third-best figures successful T20 internationals.

England volition look to implicit a bid clean-sweep successful the last T20 successful Centurion connected Saturday, earlier a three-match one-day planetary bid and a one-off Test adjacent month.

England were coagulated if unspectacular successful the opening T20 successful East London connected Saturday, but this was an utterly ascendant victory.

They made a mediocre start, slipping to 15-2 erstwhile Maia Bouchier chipped the shot to mid-wicket for 20, earlier Sophia Dunkley fell for a duck 2 balls aboriginal with a nervy prod that flicked disconnected the wrong borderline and onto the stumps.

That brought Sciver-Brunt to the mediate to articulation Wyatt-Hodge and England ne'er looked back.

They were fixed a helping manus by South Africa, who dropped Wyatt-Hodge twice, connected 9 and 29, portion Sciver-Brunt was besides dropped connected 25.

The hosts struggled with their enactment and length, failing to instrumentality vantage of a transportation that offered much gait and bounce than the stodgy aboveground successful East London.

Wyatt-Hodge's brutal innings included 15 fours and 1 immense six implicit long-on, earlier she departed aft a well-directed De Klerk yorker.

That failed to halt England's momentum arsenic lively cameos from Heather Knight, who made 26 disconnected 19, and Amy Jones, 15 disconnected seven, ensured England passed 200 for conscionable the 4th clip successful T20 internationals.

Only 1 broadside has ever chased down a people of 200 oregon much successful women's T20 internationals and it ne'er looked similar happening here.

Sciver-Brunt removed opener Tazmin Brits for a duck successful the opening implicit of South Africa's reply.

Glenn past ripped done South Africa's mediate order, removing Faye Tunnicliffe, Annerie Dercksen and Nondumiso Shangase - the second 2 with consecutive balls - to trim South Africa to 86-5 and region immoderate urgency from the game.

The returning Chloe Tryon showed immoderate absorption with 30 from 24 balls earlier becoming the 4th batter to beryllium cleanable bowled by Glenn to each but unafraid triumph for England.