World News – AU – Dawid Malan scores 99 to win England for T20 against South Africa

There was a bonfire of bowling figures in Cape Town on Tuesday when Dawid Malan was unbeaten a year before the World Cup, with 47 balls putting England at the top of the Twenty20 rankings with a win over nine wickets.

South Africa seemed to have made it their business to avoid a 3-0 win when Rassie van der Dussen’s unbeaten 74, coupled with a similarly explosive 52 not from Faf du Plessis, 191 for three on the Brett was stuck.

But in response, Malan and Jos Buttler, who failed to make a 46-ball 67, couldn’t be held back. The pair’s unbroken score of 167 in 90 balls – an international record for the second wicket – brought Eoin Morgan’s tourists home with around 14 balls.

Malan, the man of the game after turning 55. Birthday in Paarl on Sunday, had a crooked smile at the end. He was unable to fully dig up a Yorker on 98 with a required, missing out on what would have been a second international T20 century.

« I have to go back to math class. But I didn’t know what would happen if I turned down the single, ”said Malan, a nod to the unbeaten 103 against New Zealand last year that Morgan criticized for failing to pass the last ball.

Malan’s 10th. Hitting north of 50 in 19 games cemented its No.. 1 in the international T20 rankings, suppressing a somewhat curious debate recently about his preference to take an early seer before hitting the accelerator.

When Jason Roy went out under lights in the fourth part of the chase after flying to a 95-mile missile by Anrich Nortje, the left-hander’s first three balls disappeared for two fours, and a fine whip for six, and his half Century only lasted 26 balls.

There were a few horrors along the way when Malan successfully won an LBW decision on Jan.. picked up – Lungi Ngidi’s first delivery of the innings had thrown out of the leg – and Quinton de Kock missed on Jan.. a chance to end.

This was a sign of controlled but fierce aggression by the 33-year-old, who passed the rope eleven times and cleared five more times because there was no sixth bowler in South Africa – and Kagiso Rabada was lost to a kidnapper injury. has been suspended.

Buttler struggled for the rhythm until the seaman Lutho Sipamla – for Rabada, who will miss the one-day internationals – was substituted for the eleventh time and sent for two sixes and a Grim Reaper on the way to his 35-. Ball half a century.

England seemed set for a more modest goal. After being asked to hunt on a reused court, they reduced the hosts for three to 63 in the tenth game. Chris Jordan was 66. Victim – De Kock – became the country’s leading wicket taker in T20 international cricket for the third time in the series, while Ben Stokes picked up two wickets, including Reeza Hendricks, with a smart ball 71 mph slower.

The second half of the innings brought a new complexion to the process, Van der Dussen and Du Plessis stuck 10 fours and eight sixs in an unbroken score of 127 out of 63 balls.

The pair gained 84 points in the last five overs, Van der Dussen was more violent than before and Du Plessis took aim again at Tom Curran. Again there was no crowd, but the local cameramen could still hear oops of « yeah baby ».

Jofra Archer has canceled the tour for 44. It included a 22-run fourth – his most expensive in the format to date – which also included Stokes exiting the field with a cut in his right hand after hitting the LED billboards.

Bar Adil Rashid is typically spotless for 20 years, all bowlers struggling to abstain. England’s field was sleepy – two chances were lost – while a new messaging system from team analyst Nathan Leamon was discovered on the balcony.

In various places Leamon held up coded characters like « 4E » or « 2C ». . These were described by the team as a “live source of information” – not direct orders, as was emphasized – and were approved by Umpire Andy Pycroft and the ICC Anti-Corruption Department.

Formerly used by Leamon while working with Multan Sultans in the Pakistan Super League, the system reminded Bob Woolmer and Hansie Cronje that prior to the 1999 World Cup, when the coach and captain of South were not allowed to relay messages through earphones , were sent back to Africa respectively.

Here, the approved message boards did little to stem the flow, but Malan and Buttler soon put England’s field representation into context.

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