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• England book final date with Australia as Sciver-Brunt and Knight sink South Africa

  02-07-2026 23:13 via theguardian.com
  England beat South Africa by 40 runsWomen’s T20 World Cup hosts through to Lord’s finalEngland launched themselves into the T20 World Cup final after defeating South Africa by 40 runs at the Oval on Thursday evening.Emotions ran high, especially after England were left reeling at 23 for three having been put in to bat. But with a crowd of 21,000 roaring them on, the World Cup hosts finished up jubilant as a record partnership of 133 from 90 balls between Nat Sciver-Brunt and Heather
  
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• England v South Africa: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup semi-final – as it happened

  02-07-2026 23:12 via theguardian.com
  A Nat Sciver-Brunt inspired England charge into the final at Lord’s after thrashing South Africa by 40 runsOh dear, Derksen only has to shuffle a couple of pigeon steps sideways to collect a slap straight to cover point off Ishmail’s first ball.1st over: England 3-0 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Amy Jones 2) Marizanne Kapp has grabbed a wicket with her first ball twice already in this tournament – but not this time as the ball passes safely outside Amy Jones’ off stump. Jones picks up
  
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• Sciver-Brunt steps up to fire England past South Africa into Women’s T20 World Cup final – live

  02-07-2026 22:45 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the Oval; play starts at 6.30pm BST
  Mail Tanya | Scoreboard | Australia cruise into finalOh dear, Derksen only has to shuffle a couple of pigeon steps sideways to collect a slap straight to cover point off Ishmail’s first ball.1st over: England 3-0 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Amy Jones 2) Marizanne Kapp has grabbed a wicket with her first ball twice already in this tournament – but not this time as the ball passes safely outside Amy Jones’ off stump. Jones picks up a single b
  
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• England v South Africa: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup semi-final – live

  02-07-2026 19:36 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the Oval; play starts at 6.30pm BST
  Mail Tanya | Australia cruise into final | Read The Spin1st over: England 3-0 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Amy Jones 2) Marizanne Kapp has grabbed a wicket with her first ball twice already in this tournament – but not this time as the ball passes safely outside Amy Jones’ off stump. Jones picks up a single bringing run-machine Wyatt-Hodge to the crease. But there are no gimmies and she wafts and misses twice in a row going for the cut.An early em
  
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• Bazball ends with a whimper to expose emptiness of English men’s cricket | Jonathan Liew

  02-07-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Trent Bridge was not just the end of Ben Stokes’ international career, it was further confirmation that the Bazball project stood for nothingBy the very end, Trent Bridge was practically empty. This felt bleakly appropriate. If the age of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum lived by re-engaging a sceptical public, winning big series, doing the unprecedented and elevating Test cricket above its three-an-over purgatory, then this was exactly how it had to die: the first England team in history t
  
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