Third T20:
South Africa 222-6;
England 226-5, 19.1 oversBairstow and Buttler also weigh in with half-centuriesWhat a series, what a game, what a run chase, what a crick in the neck from repeatedly watching the ball sail through the Centurion skies. And what an innings, too, from England’s captain Eoin Morgan, who came out with thethird T20 international slipping away from his team and repeatedly pumped the ball over the leg-side rope to reel in the most extraordinary chase.
At the end England emerged 2-1 winners of the series. They came to South Afrcia to prepare for the T20
World Cup in Australia. The evidence suggests England have every chance of going far in the competition if their batting order can maintain this level of fearless craft. It might also be one to watch from behind the sofa.