South Africa Women 180-6 (du Preez 70no, Campbelle 2-22) tied with
West Indies Women 180-8 (Aguillera 36, Smith 2-13)
Alicia Smith produced a superb final over to bowl South Africa to a series-clinching tie in the fourth One-Day International against the West Indies Women in Cape Town .
With the West Indies requiring two runs to win with three wickets in hand after South Africa made 180 for six, Smith conceded a single from her first ball before delivering four dot balls to Anisa Mohammed. With a ball remaining and one run to win, Smith bowled Mohammed for a duck as the Proteas pinched a tie from a match they had looked destined to lose.
The West Indies had needed just 14 runs from the final four overs before South Africa , who maintained their 2-1 series lead, applied the squeeze.
Earlier, Mignon du Preez had played a lone hand with an unbeaten 70 in 110 balls in the South African innings after they were invited to bat by the West Indians.
She hit four fours but received little support other than 31 from Shandre Fritz and 20 from Smith, who enjoyed a decent all-round game.
Shemaine Campbelle and Stacy-Ann King picked up two wickets apiece to give the West Indies a strong chance of levelling the series.
However, it wasn't to be as they lost wickets too regularly to really dominate the second half of the game as they would have liked to. Deandra Dottin made 34 and Pamela Lavine 30, and captain Merissa Aguillera made 36 but it was her dismissal that enabled the South Africans to have a bowl at Mohammed.
Despite an unbeaten 13 from Britney Cooper, her partner was unable to get off strike, allowing fast-medium bowler Smith to finish with figures of two for 13, Fritz having also picked up two wickets in her earlier spell.
The two sides now play a three-match Twenty20 International series in Paarl and Cape Town .
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