Summary

  • South Africa beat Ireland by 201 runs

  • SA 411-4: Amla 159, Du Plessis 109

  • Ireland 210 (45): Balbirnie 58; Abbott 4-21

  • SA score 400 for second successive ODI

  • Pool B, Canberra: SA won toss

Live Reporting

Sam Sheringham and Michael Emons

  1. Join the debate at #bbccricket

    Nick Hebross: I'm at the ground in Canberra. Can't help feel SA have left a few cards on the table. They've left it late to tee off.

  2. SA 228-1 (Amla 114, Du Plessis 106)

    So how do Ireland get back in this one? Is this match all over already?

    All they need to do is get rid of these two. And then Rilee Rossouw. And then AB de Villiers. And then David Miller. And then it might get a bit easier.

    One four each for Amla and Du Plessis in another painful over for the Irish. Du Plessis's effort was exceptional, a scoop straight over the keeper's head. Lovely stuff.

  3. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    "This is South Africa's ODI-record partnership for the second wicket, beating 207 by Gary Kirsten and Neil McKenzie against Kenya at Cape Town in 2001.

    "This year, South Africa have broken their ODI records for the first, second, third and fifth wickets."

    Hashim Amla and Faf du PlessisReuters

  4. 100 for Du Plessis

    Hashim Amla has a century, and he is soon joined on three figures by Faf du Plessis. A hundred off 103 balls, including nine fours and one six.

    Faf du PlessisReuters

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    Guy Williams: Amla has a higher strike rate & average than Gayle & Warner. A century every 6 innings. Class act

  6. SA 211-1 (Amla 105, Du Plessis 98)

    Maybe the only thing that can stop South Africa, is South Africa. Farcical scenes of yes, no, maybe should see Hashim Amla run out. But wicketkeeper Gary Wilson's throw at the opposite stumps is awful. So awful it goes for overthrows. Amla survives in an over that yields five more to the total.

  7. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    "Hashim Amla has now scored ODI centuries against 11 teams, equalling the record shared by Australia's Ricky Ponting and India's Sachin Tendulkar."

  8. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "Ireland are missing a trick here. Someone has got to make something happen; they have to try and get a wicket. Bring up long-on, long-off or deep cover. Go all-out-attack and gamble a little bit, because if they don't they're going to go for 380 or 390."

  9. That's a record

    Amla has just got a century and Du Plessis will probably be soon following him.

    This partnership, worth 194 at the moment, is comfortably South Africa's highest second-wicket partnership in World Cups. The previous best was 170 between AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis against West Indies in 2007.

  10. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "Magnificent knock. He got that life early on - it almost gave him a kick up the back side and he hasn't let the bowlers dictate to him. Classic Amla."

    Listen to ball-by-ball TMS commentary by clicking on the audio icon.

  11. 100 for Amla

    And there it is. A century for Hashim Amla. A run-a-ball century indeed. Well played, sir. Great knock. Ireland should have snapped up his wicket when he was only on 10, but Ed Joyce spilled the chance. He may be having nightmares about that one later on.

  12. SA 194-1 (Amla 99, Du Plessis 87)

    What a partnership this is. Amla 99 off 99 balls, Du Plessis a slightly slower 87 off 89 balls. Both are looking like getting huge centuries here.

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    Roche Alexander: Thanks to @BBCSport for the #bbccricket love this live feeds & comments all the way from #CapeTown #GoProteas.

    We are very happy to have you with us, Roche. You must be very happy with your team so far. They are looking fantastic.

  14. SA 190-1 (Amla 97, Du Plessis 85)

    Five singles and it looks a respectable over from George Dockrell. That is until Faf du Plessis charges down the wicket, opens the face of the bat and punches it away for a one-bounce four, with the ball coming to ground just before the rope. Amla is also three runs away from a century.

  15. Scorecard update

    South Africa 181-1 (30 overs) after winning toss

    Batsmen: Amla 94*, Du Plessis 74*

    Fall of wickets: 12-1 (De Kock)

    Bowling figures: Mooney 5-2-9-1, Sorensen 4-0-51-0, K O'Brien 2-0-21-0, Dockrell 7-0-30-0, Stirling 5-0-30-0, McBrine 7-0-40-0

    Full scorecard

    Faf du PlessisGetty Images

  16. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "It's looking very ominous for the Irish, if you think of the firepower South Africa have got in the shed. It's looking like at least 350."

  17. SA 181-1 (run rate 6.03)

    The run rate is back down at nearly six, but Ireland desperately need a wicket. And they need it now.

  18. SA 176-1 (Amla 91, Du Plessis 77)

    A lot of you are mentioning England on Twitter. Well, if Eoin Morgan's side somehow scrape their way into the quarter-finals, they are likely to play either India or South Africa. I'll leave that thought with you for a bit. That extremely terrifying, scary, thought.

    Back in Canberra it is 176-1, four off the over. And all credit to Ireland, they are working so hard and with some excellent fielding, well, apart from the two earlier drops, has keep the score down. Well, a bit.

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    Si Lomas: This is stage where England let game drift against Sri Lanka that prevented them getting 350+, marked different approach from South Africa.

  20. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "Since being dropped on 10, it released the shackles on Amla. I think he had a quiet word with himself and went on the attack. He's now 89 not out."

    Kevin O'BrienReuters