GUWAHATI: England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt won the toss and elected to field against South Africa in the first semi-final of the Women’s World Cup in India’s Guwahati city on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The former champions came in unchanged from their previous win in the league phase, with left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone set to play after an injury scare.<\/p>\n
Ecclestone fell awkwardly on her left shoulder while fielding in England’s win over New Zealand on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Sciver-Brunt said Ecclestone would be “playing through a bit of pain” but was “raring to go”.<\/p>\n
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South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt said they were also looking to bowl first but were happy to bat on what seemed like a run-friendly pitch.<\/p>\n
The Proteas made one change from their previous defeat to Australia, with batting all-rounder Anneke Bosch coming in for Masabata Klaas.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully we can bat first really well today,” said Wolvaardt. “At the end of the day, it is all about winning.”<\/p>\n
South Africa was beaten by England in the semi-finals of the last two ODI World Cups in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n
Defending champions Australia will face hosts India in the second semi-final on Thursday on the outskirts of Mumbai. The final is on Sunday.<\/p>\n
England women:<\/strong> Amy Jones (wk), Tammy Beaumont, Heather Knight, Danielle Wyatt-Hodge, Nat Sciver-Brunt (capt), Sophia Dunkley, Alice Capsey, Charlotte Dean, Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith, Lauren Bell.<\/p>\n South Africa women:<\/strong> Laura Wolvaardt (capt), Tazmin Brits, Sune Luus, Annerie Dercksen, Anneke Bosch, Marizanne Kapp, Sinalo Jafta (wk), Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GUWAHATI: England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt won the toss and elected to field against South Africa in the first semi-final of the Women’s World Cup in India’s Guwahati city on Wednesday. The former champions came in unchanged from their previous win in the league phase, with left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone set to play after an injury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":89709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89710,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707\/revisions\/89710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}