England V South Africa: Third Men’s T20 Cricket International – Live

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The players are warming up connected nan Trent Bridge outfield, nan rainfall is falling lightly, if steadily. Apparently location will beryllium a flip successful 5 minutes truthful everyone is evidently keen to get a crippled started pinch a break successful nan upwind coming. It looks a spot Biblical later connected mind.

Ian Ward, Shaun Pollock and Stuart Broad are successful nan workplace waxing lyrical astir Phil Salt and England’s batting successful Manchester. Simon Burnton was location for america nan different night, getting RSI of nan cervix arsenic nan boundaries were peppered.

England made history, and for nan first clip much than 300 runs, connected an bonzer nighttime successful Manchester arsenic they buried South Africa nether a upland of runs and shredded statistics. Their highest T20 full was turbocharged by a superb opening guidelines of 126 betwixt Phil Salt and Jos Buttler and by their highest individual score, Salt knocking himself disconnected nan apical of that floor plan pinch an unbeaten 141. Within a week and against nan aforesaid opponents they person group caller nationalist records for winning margins successful some one-day internationals and now T20s, nan last quality present an almost comic 146 runs.

Salt described his evening arsenic “really bully fun” but nan acquisition for Shukri Conrad, South Africa’s caput coach, was thing but. He described a bowling capacity that – having invited England to bat first – “was measurement off, bereft of ideas” arsenic England were allowed to plunder 30 fours and 18 sixes en way to a people of 304 for two, pinch astir doubly arsenic galore boundaries (48) crossed nan innings arsenic location were dot balls (25).”

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Hello and invited to nan 3rd T20I betwixt England and South Africa. It’s England’s past location lucifer of a agelong world summer… but cricket waits for nary 1 and they’ll touch down successful Ireland for a short achromatic shot bid that originates connected Wednesday. Just successful lawsuit you were worried astir having withdrawal symptoms.

Jacob Bethell will skipper them for that bid but Harry Brook remains astatine nan helm for today’s fixture, if nan upwind relents and they tin get a crippled connected successful Notttingham that is.

The radar looks a spot grim currently, which is simply a shame arsenic nan bid is tied 1 apiece aft nan 5 complete soggy slogathon went nan Proteas measurement successful Cardiff and Phil Salt’s grounds breaking period astatine Old Trafford levelled things up for England.

I’ll beryllium backmost soon to bring you news of nan teams and nan toss, not to mention that pesky weather. Please do get successful touch pinch your thoughts, theories and ruminations connected nan universe. We mightiness request them.