Finally England tour of South Africa comes to an end. From test series victory of England against South Africa with 3-1 it looks like as it would be one sided games too in limited overs cricket.
South Africa comes back in limited overs cricket even without thier most experience cricketer Faf duplessis . Quinton dekock to take this responsibility and he lead from the front scoring his first ever international match hindered as a captain and helped his team to won the match for his team in first Odisa.
second Odi was washed out because of rain interruption and both the teams have to go back without getting any reward .
Last and 3rd Odi was a low scoring and it was expected that Engkand will won the match comfortably. However thier was a collapse at the end but lack of runs means Rngalnd take the game home comfortably and the series got tied 1-1
T20 series was most interesting as all the games were nail hitting and gone till the last over. 1st t20 wad won by South Africa by only 1 run . England Had it covered untill last over as they needed only 7 runs in the final over. Lungi Nigidi with his slow balls he decived the batsman and given only 5 runs to won the match for his side .
2nd t20 SA decided to chase the target this time and they were right as they started the chase of 203 runs with the bang. skipper scoring 50 in just only 17 balls and that took down the run rate to less than 10. on last over South Africa needed 15 and they scored 12 in just 4 balls. thier was some drama as SA skipper was pleading to his player when he was given out lbw. skipper asked the batsman from Pavilion which led towards some controversy but it didn't matter because he was still given out. last ball and Tom Curran hold his nerve and dismissed the batsman on the last ball which helped England to won the match by 2 runs.
3rd t20 was high scoring and SA give the target of 223 to England and England won the match with 5 balls to spare . Dwane Petrious dropped 2 catches which let England won the match comfortably.
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