England level series at 1-1 with thumping 146-run win
Hosts posted 304-2 - their highest T20 total | Scorecard
Salt hit unbeaten 141 from 60 balls - an England T20 record
Reaching ton in 39 balls is also best by an England player in T20s
Buttler added 83 (30) in stunning 126-run stand with Salt
Series-deciding third T20 in Nottingham on Sunday
Kieran Parmley
CricViz analyst
Highest totals in all T20Is:
344-4 by Zimbabwe vs Gambia, Nairobi 2024
In T20Is between full members:
297-6 by India vs Bangladesh, Hyderabad 2024
By England in T20Is:
267-3 vs West Indies, Tarouba 2023
Full toss from Lizaad Williams. You know the rest.
300 genuinely is possible here.
Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on TMS
It's been some magnificent striking from Phil Salt so far, and you feel like he's not done yet.
Salt reaches 19-ball fifty as England tally continues to soar
Phil Salt follows with a drilled drive through extra cover, taking him to fifty in a pedestrian 19 deliveries - one ball slower than Buttler.
Rebuild after the loss of a wicket? That is not in Phil Salt's dictionary.
Salt 41, Bethell 1
This is about the time someone texts us to say 'here comes the collapse...'.
Jacob Bethell is off the mark.
Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on TMS
That's one of those as a batter when you're striking the ball the way he is, you question how you've found that fielder.
He's smacked so many good deliveries.
What a platform he's set for England here.
Buttler c Stubbs b Fortuin 83 (Eng 126-1)
Stubbs takes catch at backward square leg to end 'destructive' Buttler innings
Booo.
Jos Buttler can't believe what he has done. He's managed to ping a leg-stump half-volley to the fielder at deep square-leg.
Still Old Trafford rises to appreciate a brilliant 83 from 30 balls.
Yep, there's another.
England's fastest T20 century is 42 balls by Liam Livingstone. Jos Buttler could knock it around for singles and still beat that.
I don't want to criticse bowlers too much in this situation. England may as well be batting on the M60.
This, though, is a pie from spinner Bjorn Fortuin. Buttler helps himself again.
Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on TMS
South Africa need to deliver slower balls.
Try and get ahead of the game and slow things down.
I've not seen a wide worker yet to try and slow things down at all.
WinViz fancies England's chances from here...
Image source, CricVizButtler 70, Salt 40
Marco Jansen has just remembered he can bowl a yorker. It's a dot ball.
Kieran Parmley
CricViz analyst
That was only the 12th time a side has reached three figures inside the powerplay in men's T20 matches.
Come on, lads. Give me a chance to keep up.
Four more, this time from Buttler with a flat-batted smash.
Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on TMS
They're taking the mick now these two.
That wasn't even a bad ball.
The bowlers have got absolutely nothing here.
South Africa's pitch map looks like a drunk husband-to-be firing at a wall on a stag do.
Phil Salt crashes another one over the rope form halfway down.
Salt 33, Buttler 65
Powerplay done. Take a breath, if you can.
Dawid Malan
Former England batter on TMS
Unbelievable batting.
He's just finding different ways of scoring.
Four and SIX to Jos Buttler! He's just timing the pants off everything. Phil Salt is grinning at him from the non-striker's end.
