Summary

  • Highest successful run chase at a World T20

  • Eng 230-8 (19.4 overs)

  • Root 83 from 44 balls; Roy 43 from 16

  • SA 229-4 (20 overs) - Amla 58 (31 balls)

  • Duminy 54* (28); De Kock 52 (24)

  • Australia beat SA in women's tournament

Live Reporting

James Gheerbrant

  1. Women's World Twenty20

    South Africa's women are also going pretty well in their first World T20 game - they're 72-1 after 13 overs against defending champions Australia, with Dane van Niekerk just out for 45.

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  2. SA 128-2 (run rate 11.63)

    The Indian crowd has, unsurprisingly, reacted with gusto to this South African onslaught. Cheers and horns every time the ball looks like going anywhere near the boundary. It's actually decent from Rashid in this over - only threes single from it. 

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  4. 50 runs

    50 for Hashim Amla

    SA 125-2

    I think the South African theory might be to get their runs quickly, declare, then they won't have to bowl with a wet ball. Besides, England are through them now. De Villiers out. De Kock out. Wait, Amla's still there. Half-tracker from Moeen, pulled for six. 50 from 25 balls. 

  5. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "A respite. Of sorts. South Africa got off to such a fantastic start that AB de Villiers thought he'd just go for everything. Going for the jugular he went for a shot that wasn't there. England are still in the mire but at least De Villliers is gone. It's maybe possible that South Africa get greedy?"

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    De Villiers c Morgan b Rashid 16 (SA 114-2)

    Thanks heaven for small mercies. Fortunately for England, AB de Villiers’ stay was there for a good time and not a long time. Six, six, then out, slicing Adil Rashid high to Eoin Morgan at point. Will it make much of a difference?    

  7. 6 runs

    SA 114-1

    De Villiers! Annoyed he missed one ball from Rashid. He hits the next ball for six. And the next. It's like watching a game of Stick Cricket.

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  9. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "England were kind of in the game until the last three or four overs against West Indies but here they have simply been pummeled." 

  10. SA 100-1 (Moeen 2-0-17-1)

    Only four singles and a wicket off that Moeen over. In the context off this match, that's like a badger walking into an all-rabbits wine and cheese evening. Rare.

  11. SA 97-1

    Oh good, it's AB de Villiers...

  12. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "Some solace for England. They still need a magical nine or 10 overs to leave them with any hope of matching whatever this target is. They need the dew to come down in churns."

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    De Kock c Hales b Moeen 50 (SA 96-1)

    Mercifully for England, Quinton de Kock is out. As he walks off, after holing out to deep mid-wicket off Moeen Ali, he surveys the wreckage he has created. He must feel like the last man on Earth, the day after the rest of civilisation has been wiped out. Carnage all around him. What a knock.  

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    Chris Hall: When did the England cricket team become the England football team at tournaments? Disastrous!

    Oli Major: We've potentially lost this already. Could be out a World Cup quicker than our Rugby team.

  15. 6 runs

    SA 96-0

    How many might England chase here? Shall we start looking up records for the highest T20 score? A previously good over from Rashid ends with a full toss, hit away into the Mumbai night by Amla.

  17. 50 runs

    50 for Quinton de Kock

    SA 87-0

    A 21-ball half-century for Quinton de Kock, equalling the South African record of AB de Villiers. He goes there by hitting Adil Rashid's first ball for four through mid-wicket. Can anyone stop the bleeding? 

  18. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "It is unusual for a side to get 83 off six overs. That stat, I will give you. England already have a mountain to climb."

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  20. SA 83-0 (De Kock 46 off 20, Amla 37 off 16)

    Normal serviced resumed, De Kock belting a drive through the covers, then clipping one off his toes for a single. Is there any chance of bowling one side of the wicket? 10 off the over. 83 off the powerplay!