Summary

  • England take wicket off final ball to win by two runs

  • Series level at 1-1, with decider in Centurion on Sunday

  • De Kock smashed 65 off 22 balls to give SA perfect start

  • Wood, Jordan and Curran all take two wickets to help England edge it

  • England scored 79 runs in final five overs to post 204-7

  • Moeen (39 off 11) and Stokes (47 off 29) star for England

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

  1. Eng 108-3

    Run rate 8.3

    Four from the over. It's time for the first rendition of Sweet Caroline of the night.

  2. Eng 105-3

    This is good stuff from Dwaine Pretorius. England are trying to get after him but his mix of slower balls is working. Morgan swings and misses and the crowd gasps.

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  4. Pretorius continues...

  5. Eng 104-3

    Morgan 22, Stokes 4

    Stokes is yet to find his range. He has four from seven balls after turning down a second run off Shamsi. He does usually take a little bit of time to get in before going big.

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    Eng 100-3

    The pressure had been building but Eoin Morgan gets down to sweep Shamsi over mid-wicket. Good batting.

  7. Tim Peach
    BBC Radio 5 Live in Durban

    It's been a scorching hot day in Durban today - now that the sun's set the temperature is dropping, but it still won't be easy for the players out there.

    Beach

  8. Eng 93-3

    Morgan 13, Stokes 2

    Pretorius keeps Stokes to a single off the final ball of the over.

    The highest successful chase on this ground is 158-4 in T20Is. England should go well beyond that.

  9. Eng 92-3

    I was looking up the stats before this game and it turns out Stokes has only faced more than 15 balls three times in a T20 for England. He has the chance for a longer innings today.

    To his credit, Pretorius is bowling well. Just two singles from the over with one ball to go.

  10. Simon Mann
    BBC Radio 5 Live in Durban

    Ben Stokes averages 14 and strikes at 127 in his England T20 career. No left/right hand messing around tonight - he's in at 5 with Morgan and has chance to shape the game.

  11. Eng 91-3

    Stokes is walking down the pitch to get off strike already. Stokes took a fancying to Pretorius in the Test series.

  12. This is brave from Quinton de Kock. He's bowling Dwaine Pretorius to Ben Stokes.

  13. Eng 90-3

    Morgan 12, Stokes 0

    A fine over from Tabraiz Shamsi. Just three runs come from it plus the wicket of Jason Roy. We're halfway through. England will still be eyeing 180.

    Can this middle-order get them there?

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    Graham Smooch to open the batting?

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  15. Ben Stokes is sent in at number five for England, rather than Joe Denly.

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    Roy c Miller b Shamsi 40 (Eng 90-3)

    South Africa grab another important wicket. They keep on stopping an England batsman really going big. Jason Roy is caught on the boundary, trying to hit Shamsi for another six. David Miller takes a safe catch at mid-on.

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  17. I'm not certain Buttler should be opening for England but I don't agree that he can't do it as some are suggesting.

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    Anyone who says Buttler shouldn't open in T20 only watches England occasionally and never watches the IPL. He's the best in the world at it. Give him more than 2 T20s in SA before judging...

    Guy

  19. Eng 87-2

    Roy 39, Morgan 11

    You sound like as big a Valentine's cynic as me, Stuart.

    Phehlukwayo almost manages to squeeze out an over without conceding a boundary but Morgan charges at him on the final ball. Morgan lofts it back over Phehlukwayo's head for a one-bounce four.

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