South Africa produced a clinical bowling performance to defeat England in their first Super 8 match of the Twenty20 World cup.
England also bowled well against the hosts, but poor fielding, including three dropped catches, allowed the hosts to get their score up to 154 for 8. The hero for South Africa with the bat was all-rounder Albie Morkel, who hit three successive sixes of leg-spinner Chris Schofield.
England started poorly, as they have in all their matches in the tournament, losing Luke Wright, who had been promoted to opener, for a fourth ball duck. Kevin Pietersen was controversially run out, and Paul Collingwood then went for a golden duck, but credit must go to the South African bowlers and fielders, who didn't allow the England batsmen to get the ball and keep the required run rate managable.
England also sent in Jeremy Snape, playing his first game of the tournament at the expense of Darren Maddy, ahead of Dimi Masceranhas, which, in my opinion, was a poor decision, seeing as the required rate was approaching 12 an over.
Hopefully we will learn from these errors, improve our fielding, and top order batting, and have more success against New Zealand on Tuesday!
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