England captain Andrew Strauss won the toss and decided to bat first in their vital Champions Trophy match against South Africa at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Sunday.
It is South Africa’s final Group B match and it is imperative that they win if they are to have any chance of progressing to the semi-finals.
The home side have recalled stalwart opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs, now over his rib muscle strain, to the starting line-up in place of Hashim Amla.
England have been forced to make one change to the side that opened their campaign with a win over Sri Lanka at the Wanderers on Friday. South African-born wicketkeeper Matt Prior is unable to play due to illness and has been replaced by Ravi Bopara.
Eoin Morgan will move behind the stumps to take over the wicketkeeping duties.
England, having batted first posted a formidable 323 / 8 after their 50 overs, leaving SA to score 324 for a win at 6.48 runs per over.
SA batted and fell short by 22 runs, scoring 301 / 9 after 50 overs, effecrively ending their competition.
Teams:
South Africa – Graeme Smith, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Mark Boucher, Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Roelof van der Merwe, Wayne Parnell, Dale Steyn.
England – Andrew Strauss, Joe Denly, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood, Eoin Morgan, Ravi Bopara, Luke Wright, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Graham Onions.
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Go South African Janne !
OK, here we go !
New Zealand 315/7 (50 ov)
Sri Lanka 69/2 (9.0 ov)
daar slaan NZ uiteindelik toe. Sleg begin lyk
Graham Onions…… geez is it fair play to toss onions at our batsmen?
4@SA Barbarians – Hy maak seker mens oë water !!
Bly my van is nie onions nie.
Wonder what goes trough a players mind like Straus when he plays his old country. He is determined to show of today 19 of 19 balls so far
England 27 / 0 after 5 overs
England 34 / 0 after 6 overs
:angry:
Middag manne
Daardie Strauss is ‘n giftige kolwer as hy aan die gang kom. Ek het nou eers ingeskakel nadat ek by die hotel ingeboek het. Vroulief wil nou eers ‘n vinnige power nap vang, so ek kan opvang met die krieket.
England 35 / 0 after 7 overs….. first good over for SA
Daardie pitch is hondmak.
Eng 41 / 0 after 8 overs
12@K9-MonsterLeeu – Is so maar ons boulers boul kak jong… wyes, long hops… eishhhhhhhh
Eng 45 / 0 after 9 overs
Eng 48 / 1 after 10 overs !!
Wicket SA !!
Joe Denly GONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Owais Shah now at the crease with Andrew Strauss
Nothing like a wicket to slow the run-rate down !
Eng 49 / 1 after 11 overs
Morkel is expensive, first up… bowling way too short
Eng 59 for 1 after 12 overs
Albie Morkel went for 10… eishhhhhh
New Zealand 315/7 (50 ov)
Sri Lanka 114/4 (18.4 ov)
Wicket !!
Great catch by Boucher
Strauss OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!
Collingwood coming in to join Shah at the crease
Eng 61 / 2 after 13 overs
12.1
Parnell to Strauss, OUT, fantastic reflexes from Boucher, stunning catch to dismiss Strauss, a wide delivery outside off, Strauss gets a thick edge, Boucher throws himself to his left to pluck that one, two quick wickets for South Africa
Eng 68 / 2 after 14 overs
Another relatively expensive over from Albie Morkel
In the event of teams finishing on equal points in its group, the right to play in the semi-finals will be decided in the following order of priority:
The team with the more wins in the group stage will be placed in the higher position.
If there are teams with equal points and equal wins in the group stage then in such case the team with the higher net run rate in the group stage will be placed in the higher position (refer to below for the calculation of net run rate).
If following the net run rate calculation above there are teams which are still equal, then the team with the higher number of wickets taken per balls bowled in the group stage in which results were achieved will be placed in the higher position.
If still equal, the team which was the winner of the head to head match played between them will be placed in the higher position.
In the highly unlikely event that teams cannot be separated by the above this will be done by drawing lots.
Eng 68 / 2 after 15 overs
Maiden over by Parnell
Before todays games
Group A
Teams Mat Won Lost Tied N/R Pts Net RR For Against
Pakistan 2 2 0 0 0 4 +1.606
Australia 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.000
India 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.080
West Indies 2 0 2 0 0 0 -1.501
Group B
Teams Mat Won Lost Tied N/R Pts Net RR For Against
England 1 1 0 0 0 2 +0.493
Sri Lanka 2 1 1 0 0 2 +0.327
South Africa 2 1 1 0 0 2 -0.053
New Zealand 1 0 1 0 0 0 -0.991
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