Wicket! Nortje c Bairstow b Ali 6, South Africa total 82, England win by 118 runs
20.4 overs: South Africa 81-9 (Shamsi 5*), target 202. Moeen will do it if he needs to. Shamsi takes a single before Nortje hooks it deep down, but he doesn’t have enough distance. Bairstow takes the catch and England have an emphatic win to level the series.
England’s Jonny Bairstow celebrates the catch of South Africa’s Anrich Nortje. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty Images
Updated at 21.02 BST
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summing up
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Wicket! Nortje c Bairstow b Ali 6, South Africa total 82, England win by 118 runs
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Wicket! Ngidi cib Rashid 0, SA 77-9
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Wicket! Pretorius c Roy b Rashid 17, SA 76 for 8
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Wicket! Maharaj b Rashid 1, SA 66 for 7
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Wicket! Klaasen st Buttler b Ali 31, SA 66 for 6
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Wicket! Miller b Curran 12, SA 27 for 5
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Wicket! Markram finished 0, SA 6-4
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Wicket! De Kock c Livingstone b Willey 5, SA 6 for 3
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Wicket! Van der Dussen c Buttler b Topley 0, SA 6 for 2
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Wicket! Malan c Curran b Topley 0, SA 6 for 1
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Wicket! Rashid finished with 12, England 201
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Wicket! Willey c Klaasen b Pretorius 21, England 191-9
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Wicket! Curran c Markram b Shamsi 35, England 167-8
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Wicket! Livingstone c Miller b Nortje 38 England 144-7
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Wicket! Buttler c Pretorius b Shamsi 19, England 101-6
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Review! Livingstone lbw b Pretorius
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Wicket! Moeen c Nortje b Maharaj 6, England 72-5
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Wicket! Bairstow b Pretorius 28
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Wicket! Root c De Kock b Pretorius 1
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Wicket! Salt c Miller b Pretorius 17
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WICKET! Roy c Pretorius b Nortje 14 (England 22-1)
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South Africa have won the toss and are bowling
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16:45 start!
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Inspection after 4 p.m
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Field inspection 3:30 p.m
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Delayed release
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summing up
Considering the slight gloom that has surrounded English white-ball cricket over the past two weeks, it was a surprisingly emphatic victory, which most of us didn’t call halfway through after a stop-and-go batting performance against an impressive South African attack. But the tourists’ batting was fragile and England’s bowling masterful, from star of the summer Topley and Willey to the two spinners, Rashid and Moeen, and we have an intriguing decider at Headingley on Sunday.
And here’s Daniel Gallan’s report from Old Trafford. Thanks for all your comments and tweets, only a portion of which could be answered due to the frantic nature of the game. Goodbye and have a nice weekend.
Updated at 9.34pm BST
Liam Livingstone also dropped by for a chat with Team Sky, with an insight into how he and Curran lined up the bowlers. “We had to clear a lot to get a score,” he admits, “and then Toppers and Dave were brilliant with the ball and then Rash was brilliant with a wet ball – it was quite a satisfying win. At times you have to give yourself a chance and assess the conditions and go in and then wait for your match to come, Sam with the spinners and me with pace. I was waiting for the seam to attack again. while Sam told me he would go to Maharaj .
Updated at 9.19pm BST
And we quickly arrive at the presentation, at a gloomy Old Trafford. Kesha Maharaj comes first:
“Our bowlers did well,” says the South African captain, “we thought it was a chaseable score but we lost a lot of soft wickets up front and when you’re four down in the powerplay it’s difficult back from it. . So let’s go back to the drawing board and get ready for the nest.” Of the Proteas’ best performer, he adds: “Dwayne [Pretorius] he is a very professional guy and he proved his worth.
The following from Jos Buttler: “It’s great to get the win, I’m delighted with the way we came out with the ball there. And I want us to continue playing this way. Can we do better? Absolutely, but I’m happy with the guys playing this way and it turned out to be a total winner
“They support each other, many times it doesn’t seem like we’re taking risks; we are finding time to calm down and put pressure on the opposition, but I want us to continue to take the positive option. Liam [Livingstone] and Sam Curran having the will to face the bowlers is key. And the boys are bowling brilliantly, Topley getting early wickets and Dave doing the same; we talked halfway through about how if we kept a length it would be too good for them. I want us to continue on that path and play that positive brand of cricket, but just do it better.”
Man of the match is Sam Curran, who takes it from a crowded field. “I had time to reflect when I had the injury and be happy with the order and participate as I did today. I enjoyed the break for reflection and learning and to make sure I am more consistent. The message of the team has always been to take that positive option and me and Liam took that on, with the ball I’m just trying to be adaptable and give Jos some options, working on that cutter and slower ball but I won’t give away too many secrets
Wicket! Nortje c Bairstow b Ali 6, South Africa total 82, England win by 118 runs
20.4 overs: South Africa 81-9 (Shamsi 5*), target 202. Moeen will do it if he needs to. Shamsi takes a single before Nortje hooks it deep down, but he doesn’t have enough distance. Bairstow takes the catch and England have an emphatic win to level the series.
England’s Jonny Bairstow celebrates the catch of South Africa’s Anrich Nortje. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty Images
Updated at 21.02 BST
20th over: South Africa 81-9 (Northje 4, Shamsi 4), target 202. Northje drives Rashid down the ground for one – South Africa’s first in three overs – but this has been a game of bowling (no individual he’s done wrong) and Rashid takes another one with an easy catch and bowled Ngidi. Number 11 Shamsi is caught wonderfully off the first ball before whizzing merrily down the ground for four. And then, with the final ball of the 20 over, which guarantees us a result, Rashid gets an lbw decision which Shamsi reviews. He thinks he’s got it right and he’s right.
Updated at 20.49 BST
Wicket! Ngidi cib Rashid 0, SA 77-9
A third for Rashid, Ngidi misreading the pace and giving the bowler a simple return catch with an inelegant hack.
England’s Adil Rashid takes the ball to catch South African wicketkeeper Lungi Ngidi. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters
Updated at 20.58 BST
19th over: South Africa 76-8 (Northje 4, Ngidi 0), target 202 Shaun Pollock on Communications for Sky reckons Ngidi will but Moeen is playing so hard he can’t do anything and has to play with a maiden . Excellent from both England spinners now.
18th over: South Africa 76-8 (Northje 4, Ngidi 0), target 202. Pretorius perhaps takes South Africa’s last chance with him as he is caught at length by Roy. She is no less a maiden.
“Forget this 50+ year old stuff. Obviously we have a shiny new 29-29 in rain format!” emails John Starbuck, giving ideas to the ECB (probably)
Wicket! Pretorius c Roy b Rashid 17, SA 76 for 8
This game is over. Pretorius tries to bowl Rashid, slightly misses a big off-drive and Roy jogs in to collect it.
Dwaine Pretorius of South Africa bats to lose his wicket. Photo: Matt West/Shutterstock
Updated at 21.03 BST
17th over: South Africa 76-7 (Pretorius 17, Northje 4), target 202. Well done by Moeen, who offers nothing off his first two balls before the third one goes up to third man from two overs from Nortje. Pretorius can bat, though, and when Moeen delivers a half volley, he hits it over the bowler’s head for four. There are also some developments for South Africa.
16th over: South Africa 68-7 (Pretorius 12, Northje 1), target 202. Quite a game for spinners, this, like the Old Trafford of (very) old, as Rashid begins his over by bowling Maharaj. And it’s largely good old-fashioned spin, laced with the variations that make Rashid England the best white-ball spinner ever.
Wicket! Maharaj b Rashid 1, SA 66 for 7
One brings two! A slider-cum-googly from Rashid gets past the tourists’ captain, and there’s the old Ashes clash.
South Africa’s Keshav Maharaj is defeated by England’s Adi Rashid. Photo: Rui Vieira/APRashid (left) is congratulated by Jason Roy on Maharaj’s dismissal. Photograph: Rui Vieira/AP
Updated at 21.01 BST
15th over: South Africa 66-6 (Pretorius 12, Mahraj 1), target 202. Moeen continues, conceding a rare boundary when the increasingly dangerous Klaasen lifts him at mid-on for four. But as soon as I write “dangerous” he’s gone, perplexed, and an annoying association is broken. There are a couple more singles, but Mooen is finding some wrung out movement here.
Wicket! Klaasen st Buttler b Ali 31, SA 66 for 6
Man like Moeen! Just as England might have worried about this partnership, Moeen traps Klaasen driving in one that was too tight to drive. Goes forward and misses, Buttler catches and strikes.
South Africa’s Heinrich Klaasen (right) looks puzzled by England’s Jos Buttler. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA
Updated at 20.46 BST
14th over: South Africa 61-5 (Klaasen 27, Pretorius 11), target 202. A deft shovel from Rashid to fine leg takes Klaasen for two more, Topley does well to make sure it’s not four. England are cutting the boundaries well here as another drive down the ground is also cut. Another two complete the end and take us, somewhat unhelpfully given the time, to drink.
“It’s all very well to suggest such complicated measures, which are not necessarily counting things that can definitely be objectively measured,” says John Starbuck. “Do it for Curran and another all-rounder and see what happens, yeah. But the result could be so what? You should be able to count the…