Ball by Ball Commentary & Live Score

5.26pm Five-twenty-six-pee-em! This ought to have been the mid-innings break. Instead it's all done with a whopping 175 balls to spare, which is only the second-worst defeat in England's last three ODIs against South Africa. They have a lot of work to do before the second match. We'll be back for that, but from Miller, Alan and Chetan, good~~night~~ afternoon!

Temba Bavuma: "Build from the momentum we got in Australia, good start to the series. Clinical with the ball, they put us under pressure in the powerplay but we managed to get wickets. Could have been more clinical with the bat at the end but we were led by Aiden. Fielding was good, caught well, trying to improve. The ball flies off on this square but good effort. We want to build on this momentum, quick turnaround. Lord's might be different conditions so we'll try to assess, but we've set our standard."

5.21pm: Time for the presentations

Keshav Maharaj is Player of the Match for his 4 for 22: "A really good wicket, a little in it and our bowlers utilised it. England play well in their conditions, good to see our guys put their plans to fruition today. I've looked at the best in the world and make minor changes to my game, good to see it pay off. We're in a wonderful place, still in transition, but players putting hands up in every game."

Brook adds, to his previous comments, "not ideal... Smudge batted nice but we couldn't get a partnership. Ideally we'd look to bang it."

"Sonny Baker kept on chucking it in and giving 100 percent. We kind of used it as a practice session at the end when the game was dead."

Harry Brook has been talking to TMS: "It was just a bad day. We have to just put that behind us and crack onto the next game.

"A lot of teams would make excuses, but we're not about making excuses. At the end of the day, that batting performance wasn't good enough. I think everybody will hold their hands up and say that they weren't good enough today. Look, we just had a bad day. We've just got to put it behind us and move onto Lord's.

"It's not good enough. Nobody wants to come and watch that. I can't say much more than we've just had a bad day. We've got to put it behind us as quick as possible and move onto the next game."

5.11pm Well... crumbs. Not an iota of comfort for England in a brutal mismatch. Aiden Markram's blistering 86 from 55 balls included a marmalising of Sonny Baker, who returned England's most expensive ODI debut figures. Adil Rashid's three-for can be filed alongside Jamie Smith's half-century... their collapse of 7 for 31 in 47 balls included a glut of ghastly shots from players who do actually know better, among them Buttler, Jacks and Bethell. It's another hideous mismatch between these two teams in ODI cricket, to follow their recent hammerings at the 2023 World Cup and this year's Champions Trophy. South Africa are a very, very serious white-ball team right now. T20 World Cup finalists, and recent victors in Australia too. England need to find some answers and quickly, but a month of 100-ball cricket doesn't seem to have set them up very well for this format... fancy that!

20.5

Rashid to Brevis, SIX runs

panned back over the bowler's head! Looped into the slot, launched into the sightscreen, here endeth a non-contest!

20.4

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Rashid to Brevis, no run

big slow legbreak... the right ball in the circumstances, but Brevis opts not to go for heroics and defends...

Steven Finn took a similarly pyrrhic hat-trick in that aforementioned 2015 World Cup... is it on?

20.3

Rashid to Stubbs, OUT

goes for the reverse-sweep, dragged onto middle stump! A ridiculous match gets even more ridiculous, and Rashid is on a hat-trick! It was a tight off-stump line on the full length, too close to the bat for the shot, and Stubbs couldn't get enough angle on it

Tristan Stubbs b Rashid 0 (1b 0x4 0x6 1m) SR: 0

Shuaib : "anyone remember G Smith and loots bosman taking A Rashid to the cleaners on his debut? He went alright after that!" I do indeed...

20.2

Rashid to Bavuma, OUT

inside-out launch... to wide mid-off! Bavuma goes for broke through the full length, bat twisted in his hands... the biggest roar of the day as England seal their moral victory (ahem)

Temba Bavuma c Jacks b Rashid 6 (9b 0x4 0x6 8m) SR: 66.66

20.1

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Rashid to Bavuma, no run

on the back foot, thumped at point

end of over 206 runs

SA: 131/1CRR: 6.55 • RRR: 0.03 • Need 1 run from 30 overs

Temba Bavuma6 (7b)

Ryan Rickelton31 (59b 4x4)

Brydon Carse 5-0-24-0

Adil Rashid 3-0-20-1

Well. This has been ridiculous. It's barely 5pm! I've known IPL matches that have lasted longer

19.6

Carse to Bavuma, 1 run

leg-sided, plinked off the pads, scores are level after 20 overs!

19.5

Carse to Rickelton, 3 runs

firmly driven, out into the covers, Brook sprints hard and drags the ball back just inside the rope... he saves the single with a bold dive at the boundary

19.4

Carse to Bavuma, 1 run

outside off, cuffed into the covers for another single... six to win

19.3

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Carse to Rickelton, 1 leg bye

full length, flicked to the leg-side

Talha Shahzad: "Congratulations to the great Viv Richards! Your record of Highest Percentage Of Runs In A Completed Innings In ODIs remains intact." Gosh, we were in ODI Bannerman territory!

19.2

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Carse to Rickelton, no run

crashed off the front foot, into the covers. He nailed that but straight at the fielder

19.1

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Carse to Rickelton, no run

round the wicket, hard length to the left-hander, raucous cheers for the dot-ball as Carse gathers in his followthrough

end of over 194 runs • 1 wicket

SA: 125/1CRR: 6.57 • RRR: 0.22 • Need 7 runs from 31 overs

Temba Bavuma4 (5b)

Ryan Rickelton28 (55b 4x4)

Adil Rashid 3-0-20-1

Brydon Carse 4-0-19-0

18.6

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Rashid to Bavuma, no run

tight lines to close out the over... it might be his last of the match, you sense

18.5

Rashid to Bavuma, 2 runs

walloped down the ground, Bethell stumbles at the key moment! Nowhere near the middle from Bavuma, the fielder tracked back at mid-on but lost his footing as he over-ran the chance

18.4

Rashid to Bavuma, 2 runs

launched uppishly over the covers. Not timed but finds space behind the inner ring

18.3

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Rashid to Bavuma, no run

lots of flight and dip, big legbreak beats the new batter

18.2

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Rashid to Bavuma, no run

tossed up and patted back to the bowler

18.1

Rashid to Markram, OUT

punched off the back foot, stunning take at cover! No century for Markram, but what an outstanding innings. Hell of a catch too, Smith at full stretch, clinging on in one hand, using his wicketkeeper's training to leap high to his right as if it was a flying outside-edge rather than a full-blooded slap ... but has he grounded it? The umpire says no ... and fair enough. It was firmly in his grasp by the time he rolled across the turf, fingers wrapped around it... distinct from that Starc controversy at Lord's in 2023 (although that was clearly out by any metric other than slo-mo replay)

Aiden Markram c Smith b Rashid 86 (55b 13x4 2x6 83m) SR: 156.36

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end of over 187 runs

SA: 121/0CRR: 6.72 • RRR: 0.34 • Need 11 runs from 32 overs

Ryan Rickelton28 (55b 4x4)

Aiden Markram86 (54b 13x4 2x6)

Brydon Carse 4-0-19-0

Adil Rashid 2-0-16-0

shravan: "Markram has a slight chance of scoring three figures." A better chance now that he's back on strike...

17.6

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Carse to Rickelton, no run