SOUTHAMPTON: Tabraiz Shami topped England’s batting order as South Africa cruised to an emphatic 90-run victory to seal the T20I series 2-1 against the hosts, here on Sunday.
Shamsi shone with a career-best 5-for-24 figures to cut England to 101 in their chase that cost the hosts their third series defeat this summer after captain Jos Butler took charge of the ball team.
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Reeza Hendrick shot an astonishing 70-for-50, smashing nine brilliant limits, while Aiden Markam anchored the Proteas innings with his undefeated 51-for-36.
With his late 22-for-9 cameo, David Miller helped his team set a big goal of 192 runs for the hosts.
Opting to play first after winning the toss, England’s bowlers remained unimpressive and expensive, except for David Willey who produced sensational bowling figures of 3 out of 25.
While Chris Jordan and Moeen Ali each won a scalp .
England, on the other hand, struggled with the bat when they were eliminated in the 17th, with seven of their batsmen failing to reach double figures.
South Africa’s clever bowling strategy earned them wickets early in the second inning as right-arm pacer Anrich Nortje ruled out starter Jason Roy 17-for-18 while left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj shrugged off captain Butler 14-for-10.
to restrict hosts. 39/2 at the end of the power play.
Andile Phehlukwayo and Markram then joined the party and bagged a wicket apiece as Dawid Malan and Moeen Ali went down easily at 7 and 3, respectively, before Shamsi wreaked havoc with England’s batting.
The left-arm spinner broke into England’s lower order with back-to-back wickets seeing off Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, David Willey, Chris Jordan and Adil Rasheed in the span of five overs between 12 and 16.
Bairstow was the top scorer on the England card with his 27-for-30 before succumbing to Maharaj to bring the curtain down on his side.
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