ENG Women vs SA Women, 2nd T20I at Benoni,SA vs ENG [W], Nov 27 2024 - Match Result

9:22pm That will be all from us for tonight, folks. Hope you enjoyed our coverage and we hope to have your company for all the cricket that is lined up over the next few hours. Until next time, this is goodbye from Vairavan, me and everyone else at ESPNcricinfo. Take care!

Sarah Glenn, Player of the Match: Was not expecting it (this award), our batters were brilliant. Dan playing her way was awesome and then Nat doing her thing. It was to have a wicket-first mentality. Was trying to just keep it simple.

Heather Knight, England captain: Really pleased. That is what we are about as a batting group. Going two down, but Nat and Danni (going after the bowling). Would love to bat on that surface every day. When we get these sorts of conditions, we look to take the game on. Brilliant from those two and then some nice cameos towards the end - Amy with a few nice boundaries. That was the sort of track where you were going to get hit for boundaries, so keeping a little bit of perspective (was important as the bowling team). Nice to see Filer on a quick and bouncy wicket. We started and won the powerplay early and that put them on the back foot. Really pleasing and we continued to take wickets throughout, which is great.

Laura Wolvaardt, South Africa captain: Probably not our best performance all-round. Totally different conditions (to the first game), we maybe got carried away with the pace and bounce, and bowled too short and wide. They (England's bowlers) really tucked me up and executed much better on this wicket. (On if chasing a high score puts pressure on a young line-up) It does. But in a way, it also gives you a free hit. Guess it allows you to play with freedom. Unfortunate it did not go our way. Definitely (room for improvement). Should be a similar surface at the weekend and hopefully we can rectify (what went wrong today).

9:08pm South Africa gave it a rattle towards the end, with de Klerk, Dercksen, Jafta and Tryon producing enterprising cameos. The game, though, had passed them by much earlier. Most of the damage was done during the powerplay, when neither of Tunnicliffe or Wolvaardt could get going. Wolvaardt's dismissal in the tenth over tipped SA over the edge and that, despite managing 50 off the last five, was when things reached a point of no return.

A rare off-day for Ecclestone, who went for 40 in her four overs. Glenn, though, was right on the ball throughout. She struck the stumps on four different occasions, popping up with wickets just when SA threatened to shift momentum. Filer was also impressive with her pace, while Sciver-Brunt and Dean bagged a wicket apiece.

Ecclestone to bowl the last over. Over the wicket

Well well. As soon as Sciver-Brunt bowled that delivery, the towel tucked into her trousers flies off after pin-balling off her boot. How did she manage that? She might not be able to repeat it even if she tried. There was a rainbow flick in there too that would have made Alessia Russo and Beth Mead proud!

RoSky: "All of Sarah Glenn's wickets have been 'bowled'!"

Sciver-Brunt to bowl the penultimate over

Jafta in at 8. Glenn on the brink of her maiden five-wicket haul in T20I cricket

Glenn to bowl out