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. 6 runs

    Eng 56-1 (run rate 18.66)

    Can Stokes keep this frenetic pace up? There's your answer! Dug in by Abbott and Stokes batters it into the stands at midwicket!

  2. Eng 48-1

    Ben Stokes is coming in at number three...

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

    "South Africa are having a serious huddle out there. Alex Hales had been smashing the ball down the leg side. I'm not suggesting caution, but already England have got off to such a flyer that there is time to have a look."

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Hales lbw b Abbott 17 (Eng 48-1)

    Ah. Drat. Abbott fires a yorker in at the base of the stumps and Hales plays across it. He's a goner. Do England's faint hopes disappear with him?

  5. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Test Match Special

    "You know how I said I couldn't remember a worse start by England? Well now I can't remember a better one!"

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    Ilyas Najib: It's been a dream start by England, will South Africa show their are chokers yet again? Or can they turn the tide? What a game!

  7. Eng 48-0

    Kyle Abbott's first ball is swatted disdainfully behind square by Hales for another boundary.

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

    "Suddenly this total is manageable and eyes are starting to pop. 44 off 12 balls... there's been some brilliant hitting."

  9. 6 runs

    Eng 44-0 (Roy 26, Hales 13)

    Hang. On. To. Your. Hats.

    Jason Roy blasts Dale Steyn straight down the ground for four, then flicks him into the stands at square leg.

    The greatest bowler of his generation has just been taken for 23 in his first over, and England have the highest score ever after two overs of a T20 international...

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

    "And we dared to doubt them! Dale Steyn is trying not to give too much width, but he's off by a few inches. Hales has done really well to get to them though."

  11. Eng 33-0

    Steyn gets too straight and Hales flicks him to the fine leg boundary for four. And the same again! Rinse and repeat. England are determined to make a game of this...

  12. dropped catch

    Dropped catch

    Eng 25-0

    And now Alex Hales has been shelled! On his legs from Steyn, flicked to short fine leg and Kyle Abbott lets it through his fingers. All going wrong for the Proteas at the moment...

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    Mike Bell: THOUGHT that South Africa total was a bit below par. We'll breeze this chums.

  14. Eng 21-0

    Oh that is sumptuous! The most delicious of straight drives from Jason Roy and it streaks past Rabada's toes for the fourth boundary of the over. Well well...

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

    "Just don't go away folks for a minute... 229 has become 212."

  16. Eng 17-0

    Rabada sends one bouncing over Quinton de Kock's heads for five wides, and then Roy clobbers a pull to the fence. England are going for it...

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

    "The locals are loving it in that stand. We thought they'd come just to see AB de Villiers, but they're loving Jason Roy as well."

  18. Eng 8-0

    And again! This time carved over point for a one-bounce four. England up and running.

  19. Eng 4-0

    There's the intent! Jason Roy clobbers Kagiso Rabada over the top for four.

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

    "The really canny move might be to try and limit the run-rate damage in defeat, but I think England have to go for the win. These are two pretty exciting opening batsman. They are going to have to get off to a flyer."