[Cricket] South Africa v England, 1st T20 at Cape Town

[Titanic]

South Africa: Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis, JP Duminy, Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, David Wiese, Chris Morris, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada, Imran Tahir

England: Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Reece Topley

South Africa won the toss and elected to field.

England 22-0 (2 overs)

Hales 19* (11) Roy 1 (1)

 

[Titanic]

Good start to the 3rd over...

2.1 Abbott to Roy, SIX, now it's Roy's turn...takes a couple of strides down the pitch and clobbers a length delivery over midwicket with a beautifully clean swing of the bat. Caught in the crowd!

2.2 Abbott to Roy, FOUR, short outside off and this gets slotted through midwicket along the ground this time, Roy dragging the ball with a pull shot

 

[Titanic]

36-0 (3 overs) Hales 19*(11) Roy 14*(7)

Decent start, with clouds overhead, and rain earlier in the day...

 

[hans kraay fan club]

How is it the FIRST ODI? Haven't they played five already??

 

[Titanic]

How is it the FIRST ODI? Haven't they played five already??

Whatever

Roy gone... 38-1 (3.4)

 

[Taybha]

How is it the FIRST ODI? Haven't they played five already??

Pedro alert

 

[Titanic]

England 45-1 (5 overs), better from Radaba and Morris

Duminy dropped Hales at deep cow off the last ball.

 

[Titanic]

Hales gone... skied a sweep off Tahir... 53-2 (7 overs)

Duminy did really well to hold on to that despite Rabada crashing into him... ended up as a perfect rugby tackle.

 

[Titanic]

And Root follows... cutting at Wiese

53-3 (7.1 overs) not looking good after such a great start.

 

[Bold Seagull]

'sake

 

[Titanic]

'sake

Indeed 74-4 after 10 overs... then just 4 from the 11th... 78-4 (11 overs)

Not enough, one would think.

 

[Titanic]

and just 2 off the 12th from Wiese... really struggling here.

And as I type Morgan skies a slashing drive off Tahir... gone for 10.

81-5 (12.2)

 

[Titanic]

Ali gone first ball

Driving uppish to short point.

Tahir on a hat-trick... Chris Jordan strides to the crease... 81-6

 

[Titanic]

Amazing googly though the gate... just clips the pad and over middle stump... lucky boy Jordan!

1 run 2 wickets off that over

81-6 (13 overs)... from 52-1 after 7.

Dire.

 

[Titanic]

Imran Tahir 4-0-21-4 match winning bowling figures?

England 94-6 (15 overs)

 

[Titanic]

106-6 (16 overs)

Jordan's four to fine leg was special... quick and short ball from Morris, not looking at it, ducking, random waft, top edge

 

[Titanic]

Horrible mow from Jordan to midwicket... caught at the 3rd attempt... 108-7 (16.3)... this is pretty poor stuff.

NSC is right to show utter disdain for this pantomime cricket.

 

[pasty]

Completely forgot this was on to be honest. Not looking great is it.

 

[Titanic]

Completely forgot this was on to be honest. Not looking great is it.

No. You were right to forget. This is a shambles.

110-7 (17 overs)

 

[Titanic]

Just the one boundary... 10 off the 18th... 120-7