category: Cricket
22.08.2008 18:52
England's women got off to a winning start in the first of three successive Twenty20 matches against South Africa, with a 54-run victory at Northampton.
Charlotte Edwards played a captain's innings as she top scored for England with a 45-run contribution.
Jenny Gunn (24) and Lydia Greenway (25) helped the hosts post a total that the South Africans struggled to match.
Benade and Cri-zelda Brits put on a determined stand for the tourists but they could only muster 84 in reply.
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