Charlie Dean takes a hat-trick as England's six-wicket win over South Africa levels the one-day international series in Durban.
England levelled the one-day international series against South Africa with a clinical six-wicket win after the hosts' chaotic middle-order collapse in Durban.
The drama of South Africa's innings was preceded by a patient stand of 58 between Annerie Dercksen and captain Laura Wolvaardt, after Filer's eye-catching opening burst saw the Proteas reduced to 14-2 inside the first four overs. After a disappointing series opener, when they were bowled out for 186 in Kimberley, England were in need of a response and their bowlers delivered in ruthless fashion.
From there, captain Wolvaardt and the emerging talent of Dercksen regrouped and blunted England's attack effectively, calmly rotating the strike and pouncing on any width to accumulate a steady fifty partnership. Wolvaardt, playing her 100th ODI, made a costly error in judgement by trying to play Ecclestone off the back foot having previously been so disciplined - and from there the Proteas unravelled with their two superstars gone in the space of four balls.
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