Kapp hundred rallies South Africa after England debutants star

Marizanne Kapp rallied South Africa with a superb century after England's debutants had helped shred the Proteas' top order on day one of the one-off Women's Test at Taunton.

Kapp (150 from 213 balls) hit her maiden Test ton, and the fourth by a South African woman in Tests, as the tourists recovered to 284 all out after being reduced to 45-4 by a new-look England attack.

The Proteas were dismissed on the stroke of stumps as Kate Cross, the new leader of the attack now that Anya Shrubsole and Katherine Brunt have retired, picked up the final wicket to end with 4-63.

Fellow pace bowlers Issy Wong (1-54) and Lauren Bell (2-47) made their international bows, filling the spots vacated by Shrubsole and Brunt, and struck once each inside the first 18 overs - another debutant, all-rounder Alice Davidson-Richards (1-39), claimed a wicket later in the day.

Wong bowled Laura Wolvaardt (16) through the gate with a superb nip-backer, while Bell pinned Lizelle Lee lbw for a duck with one of a number of booming in-swingers she delivered on the day.

Cross and Nat Sciver (1-29) also bagged early wickets as England took charge after electing to bat.

However, Kapp went on to play a fluent and chanceless knock, reaching three figures from 151 deliveries and going on to hit the highest score by a South African woman in Tests, topping the unbeaten 105 Yvonne van Mentz had notched against England in Cape Town in 1961.

The 32-year-old amassed 26 boundaries in total, with coruscating off-side drives a staple of her knock, before she fell to Bell in the evening session as Tammy Beaumont took a leaping catch at mid-off.

Kapp put on 72 with Anneke Bosch (30) from 89-5 and then bossed lower-order stands with Nadine de Klerk (9) and Tumi Sekhukhune