South Africa started ominously through Wolvaardt, who looked in sparkling form during her 34th ODI half-century as England fed her too much width outside the off stump for her glorious cover drive to flourish.

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.

However, rather than pressing the tip into the surface like a record player needle, the tip hovers just a single atom's width above it.

By measuring the aspect ratio -- the ratio of length to width -- they found that the anemone returned to its pre-injury proportions.

Troops are in control of, and are clearing, an area across the width of north Gaza.