South Africa squandered a brilliant half century from Quinton de Kock but still held their collective nerve to beat England by seven runs in their T20 World Cup Super Eight game at the Daren Sammy Stadium in Gros Islet, St.Lucia on Friday.
South Africa posted what seemed a below-par total of 163-6, reduced England to 61-4, bowled poorly to assist their recovery to 139-4 but then manufactured yet another remarkable comeback in the closing overs to win with Marco Jansen and Anrich Nortje bowling brilliant 19th and 20th overs of the run-chase as England closed on 156-6.
David Miller did his best to overcome a collapse of 4-27 in 4.5 overs with a tempered innings of 43 off 28 balls but in conditions looking good for 200+ the South African bowlers knew they would have to dig deep, again, and they did. De Kock enjoyed a controversial moment of good fortune on 58 when third umpire, Joel Wilson, adjudged Mark Wood’s catch at long on off the bowling of Adil Rashid to have touched the ground but he was unable to capitalise with a flying edge against Archer brilliantly taken by a diving Jos Buttler behind the stumps.
Hendricks earlier endured a horrible time at the crease using a bat, apparently, without a ‘middle’ as he managed just a single boundary in a painful innings of 19 from 25 balls which ended with a desperate heave against offspinner Moeen Ali to Brook at long off.
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