The 3rd ODI between the Proteas and England took place today at Newlands Cricket Stadium, Cape Town. The Proteas won the match by 112 runs after England was bowled out in the 42nd over.
Match began at 14:30 local time (12:30 GMT)
| South Africa squad | |
| GC Smith*, HM Amla, J Botha, MV Boucher†, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, HH Gibbs, CK Langeveldt, R McLaren, JA Morkel, M Morkel, WD Parnell, AN Petersen, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe, RE van der Merwe |
| England squad | |
| AJ Strauss*, JM Anderson, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, PD Collingwood, AN Cook, JL Denly, SI Mahmood, EJG Morgan, G Onions, KP Pietersen, LE Plunkett, MJ Prior†, AU Rashid, GP Swann, JC Tredwell, IJL Trott, LJ Wright |
| Toss: The Proteas won the toss and chose to bat. The weather is looking good, the pitch looks like a surface for a great contest, but the pitch is very dry and could assist Swann against the Proteas as a bowler and Roelof van der Merwe later against England. |
| Umpires M Erasmus and RJ Tucker TV umpire BG Jerling Match referee J Srinath Reserve umpire JD Cloete |
Here’s a picture of the Cape Town weather today…. thanks Polla…
South Africa 354/6 (50.0 ov)
| South Africa innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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HM Amla | c †Prior b Broad | 86 | 131 | 92 | 7 | 0 | 93.47 |
| 31.3 Well, out of nowhere England have a wicket. Short again and Amla gets a faint inside edge on a pull shot which is collected eagerly by Prior. Surprise for everyone that. Amla played well again today but will be disappointed not to go on. 201/2 | ||||||||
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GC Smith* | b Wright | 54 | 80 | 56 | 6 | 0 | 96.42 |
| 18.3 there’s the breakthrough, and Smith will be furious with himself. A premeditated step to leg gave him room for a swipe through the covers, but Wright kept his nerve, zeroed in on the top of off, and a faint under-edge takes out the stump! 107/1 | ||||||||
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AB de Villiers | c Trott b Broad | 121 | 117 | 85 | 14 | 0 | 142.35 |
| 45.5 and that, at last, is that. Another drive, but this time he got underneath the lofted stroke, and Jonathan Trott at extra cover settles the issue. 312/4 | ||||||||
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JP Duminy | c Morgan b Wright | 6 | 21 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 |
| 35.3 you have to say that was coming. Duminy had been trying to force the pace for several overs without success, and this time he hoisted a short ball straight down the throat of deep square leg. 217/3 | ||||||||
| AN Petersen | not out | 51 | 67 | 40 | 5 | 0 | 127.50 | |
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MV Boucher† | c Wright b Broad | 22 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 200.00 |
| 49.3 well, that’s a jammy dismissal! A horrible full-toss, Boucher takes on the midwicket boundary, but Wright – staring into the sun – clings onto a bullet-like chance, and England have a bonus breakthrough 349/5 | ||||||||
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R McLaren | b Broad | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 49.6 and they won’t beat that total! Broad serves up a yorker to rattle the stumps and wrap up the innings. A first-baller for Ryan McLaren, and a mountain to climb for England 354/6 | ||||||||
| Extras | (b 2, lb 4, w 8 ) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs; 220 mins) | 354 | (7.08 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-107 (Smith, 18.3 ov), 2-201 (Amla, 31.3 ov), 3-217 (Duminy, 35.3 ov), 4-312 (de Villiers, 45.5 ov), 5-349 (Boucher, 49.3 ov), 6-354 (McLaren, 49.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JM Anderson | 7 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 7.85 | (1w) | ||
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SCJ Broad | 10 | 0 | 71 | 4 | 7.10 | (1w) | |
| 31.3 to Amla, Well, out of nowhere England have a wicket. Short again and Amla gets a faint inside edge on a pull shot which is collected eagerly by Prior. Surprise for everyone that. Amla played well again today but will be disappointed not to go on. 201/245.5 to de Villiers, and that, at last, is that. Another drive, but this time he got underneath the lofted stroke, and Jonathan Trott at extra cover settles the issue. 312/449.3 to Boucher, well, that’s a jammy dismissal! A horrible full-toss, Boucher takes on the midwicket boundary, but Wright – staring into the sun – clings onto a bullet-like chance, and England have a bonus breakthrough 349/549.6 to McLaren, and they won’t beat that total! Broad serves up a yorker to rattle the stumps and wrap up the innings. A first-baller for Ryan McLaren, and a mountain to climb for England 354/6 | ||||||||
| TT Bresnan | 10 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 6.10 | (1w) | ||
| GP Swann | 9 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 5.44 | |||
| PD Collingwood | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 7.60 | (1w) | ||
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LJ Wright | 8 | 0 | 66 | 2 | 8.25 | ||
| 18.3 to Smith, there’s the breakthrough, and Smith will be furious with himself. A premeditated step to leg gave him room for a swipe through the covers, but Wright kept his nerve, zeroed in on the top of off, and a faint under-edge takes out the stump! 107/135.3 to Duminy, you have to say that was coming. Duminy had been trying to force the pace for several overs without success, and this time he hoisted a short ball straight down the throat of deep square leg. 217/3 | ||||||||
| IJL Trott | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| Match notes |
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England
| England innings (target: 355 runs from 50 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
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AJ Strauss* | c †Boucher b Morkel | 24 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| 8.6 Morkel strikes! Full and wide and Strauss chased it but could only feather an edge through to Boucher. Strauss looked good but couldn’t make a real impact. It’s a trend that has gone on too long for his liking 58/2 | ||||||||
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LJ Wright | c McLaren b Parnell | 24 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 126.31 | |
| 5.3 one shot too many. Short and Wright tries for a maximum but can only top edge and is caught on the deep mid-wicket boundary. Bit of a shame, he gave England a decent start, but it won’t be enough 41/1 | ||||||||
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IJL Trott | c Smith b Parnell | 9 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 64.28 | |
| 9.3 great catch! Trott tries to drive a full delivery through the off side with minimal foot movement and could only edge to Smith’s left where his dive secured an excellent catch 58/3 | ||||||||
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KP Pietersen | b Duminy | 45 | 56 | 3 | 1 | 80.35 | |
| 24.6 oh dear. Pietersen wonders too far across his stumps and a dragged-down delivery comes off the bottom of his glove into leg stump. South Africa will be thrilled, Duminy has done a fine job building pressure and he was rewarded with the prize-wicket of Pietersen 142/4 | ||||||||
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PD Collingwood | c Amla b Parnell | 86 | 82 | 7 | 3 | 104.87 | |
| 37.3 and that’s the end of England’s resistance. Collingwood went for his fourth six of the night, but couldn’t get hold of it, and shovelled a simple chance to Amla at mid-on 223/7 | ||||||||
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EJG Morgan | c sub (J Botha) b Duminy | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| 26.5 Morgan stops on the shot and chips it towards long off, where Botha coming in swiftly completes a good catch. A tame end for Morgan but Duminy has done an excellent job 150/5 | ||||||||
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MJ Prior† | c Smith b Morkel | 16 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 72.72 | |
| 36.1 high, high, but not very handsome. Full length, right up to the bat, and the skipper himself is on hand to pouch the chance at cover as Prior attempts to launch one into the stands 214/6 | ||||||||
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TT Bresnan | c Smith b Morkel | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| 38.4 slower ball, Bresnan has a wipe, Smith backpedals at mid-off, and that’s the end of that 227/8 | ||||||||
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SCJ Broad | b Parnell | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| 39.6 that’s a cracking delivery. If you can’t rely on the fielders, do it with the ball instead. Full length, zipping off the seam, and detonating leg stump as Broad swishes through the line. 236/9 | ||||||||
| GP Swann | not out | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
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JM Anderson | lbw b Parnell | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| 41.3 242/10 | ||||||||
| Extras | (lb 4, w 10) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 41.3 overs) | 242 | (5.83 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 7.00 | |||
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WD Parnell | 9.3 | 1 | 48 | 5 | 5.05 | (1w) | |
| 5.3 to Wright, one shot too many. Short and Wright tries for a maximum but can only top edge and is caught on the deep mid-wicket boundary. Bit of a shame, he gave England a decent start, but it won’t be enough 41/19.3 to Trott, great catch! Trott tries to drive a full delivery through the off side with minimal foot movement and could only edge to Smith’s left where his dive secured an excellent catch 58/337.3 to Collingwood, and that’s the end of England’s resistance. Collingwood went for his fourth six of the night, but couldn’t get hold of it, and shovelled a simple chance to Amla at mid-on 223/739.6 to Broad, that’s a cracking delivery. If you can’t rely on the fielders, do it with the ball instead. Full length, zipping off the seam, and detonating leg stump as Broad swishes through the line. 236/941.3 to Anderson, 242/10 | ||||||||
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M Morkel | 9 | 1 | 39 | 3 | 4.33 | (2w) | |
| 8.6 to Strauss, Morkel strikes! Full and wide and Strauss chased it but could only feather an edge through to Boucher. Strauss looked good but couldn’t make a real impact. It’s a trend that has gone on too long for his liking 58/236.1 to Prior, high, high, but not very handsome. Full length, right up to the bat, and the skipper himself is on hand to pouch the chance at cover as Prior attempts to launch one into the stands 214/638.4 to Bresnan, slower ball, Bresnan has a wipe, Smith backpedals at mid-off, and that’s the end of that 227/8 | ||||||||
| R McLaren | 5 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 6.80 | |||
| RE van der Merwe | 6 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 8.33 | (2w) | ||
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JP Duminy | 6 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 4.16 | (1w) | |
| Match notes |
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Agree Snoek, We need the quick batters now and AB is going really well out there.
Puma and TH, have you seen the trailer that is going to bring the trophies we won to all the people? They had it on B&All last night.
92 – Snoek, Yes I saw it. Very impressive seeing all those trophies we won.
See Bekker to take Bakkies place. FH on the bench now.
212/2 after 34
Sorry puma, i’m stumped now.
FH = ?
94 – Snoek we doing well. Keep our wickets there will be a huge score for England to chase down. Probably too much for them at night in Newlands.
Francois Hougaard?
Surely not!
Puma, i have to go out, will catch up later.
Cheers
JP out. Was going a bit slow there. Need to keep the run rate going.
97 – Snoek. Yip, Franscois Hougaard.
Cheers catch up later Snoek.
There must be something i can buy that i dont keep looseing signal strength and even make it load faster for this machine.
Lost network there for ages, frustrateing. paid a fortune for this packard Bell laptop
223/3 after 36 overs.
101 – Treehugs speak to GBS he knows a lot about computers.
I have the same laptop and it seems to go so slow. Then mine is about 5 years old. I connect a screen and keyboard to it though. Tough for me to work from a laptop. Too much strain on the neck looking down.
VRYSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
Donner, wrong thread.
104 – Loosehead 😆
Bakkies out of tomorrows game.
am back dont know for how long puma cos of network and signal lose, but gee puma i R9000 for this thing, wanted a well known brand at a medium range price cause i kneew nothing bout computers is loaded with vista home premium
106 – Loosehead I read that about a half hour back. Someone mentioned it on Voldy. Then went to look at Die Burger.
107 – Teehugs. I don’t get too much problems with mine it is just slow now that it is old. Must say getting some problems with it now but not much had it for 5 years now. Probably will need a new one soon.
257/3 after 41.3 overs.
Really don’t think England will be able to chase down our score tonight. Should get 300 maybe more.
Back with after they reach 47 overs with a up date.
AB gets his 100. 102 off of 75 balls.
Well done AB. What a brilliant performance.
And now another 3 boundarys by AB. Go you good thing….hehe.
Puma am going signal to bad here in bedroom so am off to bath and eat and watch cricket all night.
Carol, sorry doll but think we gooing to give you guys a snotty 🙂
Byeeeeeeeeeee
SA 302 / 3 after 45 overs
Damn, we might post 350 or at least 340….
AB out…. for 121
AB gone. 121 off of 85 balls. Brilliant, brilliant.
TAKE A BOW AB. That was superb. Just awesome to watch.
AB de Villiers first 100 in odi on SA soil. Fantastic to watch.
113 – Cheers Treehugs. You getting ready for be early hey? Enjoy the rest of your evening.
115 – GBS we may get 350 for sure. England will never chase this score down at Newlands. Especially at night. We safe as can be.
119@ Puma – With AB out, maybe we won’t reach 350…
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