Hard work and a disco jacket - how England turned fielding woes around

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Highlights: Superb England beat South Africa to set up World Cup final against Australia By Matthew Henry BBC Sport Journalist at The Oval Published 10 minutes ago The 'F' word came up again and again in the review into England's Ashes hammering. The players knew it. Staff knew it. And after England dropped seven catches on day two of the Test in Melbourne, the whole world knew it. England's fielding had not cost them the series but it was a clear problem. They also put down six chances when exiting the T20 World Cup against West Indies the previous autumn. But Thursday's semi-final victory over South Africa at The Oval, with two fine Sophie Ecclestone catches and a perfect throw for a Danni Wyatt-Hodge run-out, was the clearest example yet of England's improvement. The secret? A sparkly disco jacket owned by the wife of the fielding coach… To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Big breakthrough for England as Wolvaardt is caught early The man tasked with improving England's fielding is long-standing coach Nick Wilton, the former Sussex wicketkeeper now dubbed DJ Wilton. His fielding 'disco nights' have become a feature of this World Cup. With the tunes blaring and while wearing his wife's jacket, Wilton has England's players charging around and taking high catches under the lights. Practice but fun practice. It has lifted England from those miserable days in Melbourne and Dubai. "We do pieces of fielding to each song and he pumps the music up to try and get us all hyped up," vice-captain Charlie Dean said. "I love the way he gets us really passionate about fielding so it is fun every time." To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, 'That is brilliant!' - Sinalo Jafta run out by Danni Wyatt-Hodge There is, of course, more to England's improvement than a coach dressing like an ABBA tribute act. Fitness and fielding were two of coach Charlotte Edwards' priorities when she took over after the Ashes defeat. She has calmly quietened talk of the issue. In one of her previous roles at Southern Vipers, Edwards used an electric scooter to follow and observe her players during their fitness sessions and one of her first moves after becoming England coach was introducing minimum fitness standards. The new standards include a two-kilometre time trial, 30m two-way sprints (effectively shuttle runs), a test to assess explosiveness through a squat and a vertical leap, and another which gauges a player's maximum velocity. England posted clips from the gruelling sessions on their social media accounts at the start of the season. Videos of boat parties posted on players' own accounts are long gone under Edwards. Wilton has been given free rein to improve England's fielding. Without any international fixtures this w