No result due to rain
Batter
Bowler
19:05 Local Time, 17:05 GMT, 22:35 IST: It's official now. The game has been abandoned. It never looked promising, did it? The build-up to this game has been dominated with predictions of rain and the number of interruptions we've had today only justified our fears. This is the third successive ODI between these two teams that ended in a no-result at this ground. Onto next one then! It's a Pink ODI at the Wanderers on Sunday and it's a day game. Let's hope the weather stays clear for that one. Until next time, cheers and goodbye!!
ICYMI: The cut-off time for a 20-over contest is 19:22 local which is under 30 minutes from now. Not good news, I'm afraid.
18:40 Local Time, 16:40 GMT, 22:10 IST: Oh dear, the rain has picked up again. They're off again. Worryingly, it looks like this has set in for good. Keep the fork ready.
18:36 Local Time, 16:36 GMT, 22:06 IST: Out goes Bavuma and in comes the rain. It's not very heavy though. It's easing off as I type and the umpires are waving the covers away. England, who had wandered off, are marching back out.
Jordan to Bavuma, out Lbw!! Loud appeal for leg-before as this ball skids underneath Bavuma's attempted pull to strike the back leg. Horrible misjudgement of length. This was back of a length at best, and even for Bavuma's short stature, there's no way he's getting it away. Excellent review from England. It's crashing into leg stump six inches from the top. Bavuma lbw b Jordan 21(17) [4s-1 6s-1]
Jordan to Bavuma, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!
Loud appeal for leg-before as this ball skids underneath Bavuma's attempted pull to strike the back leg. Horrible misjudgement of length.
Jordan to R Hendricks, leg byes, 1 run, short of length delivery which has its pace cut off by Jordan, it glances off Hendricks's hip as he's too early through the pull
Chris Jordan, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack
END OF OVER 11
9 Runs
RSA: 70 - 1
1 1 1 4 1 1
Reeza Hendricks
35 (33)
Temba Bavuma
21 (16)
Matthew Parkinson
2-0-15-0
Parkinson to R Hendricks, 1 run, drifting in on leg, picked off the pads through midwicket
Parkinson to Bavuma, 1 run, length ball turning away outside off, Bavuma waits inside the crease and dabs it to short third man
Parkinson to Bavuma, FOUR, down comes Bavuma for a hefty biff over Parkinson's head. Got right to the pitch of this leg-break
Parkinson to R Hendricks, 1 run, floated up on middle, Hendricks happy to let Bavuma do the heavy lifting at this stage. Works it through square leg for a single
Parkinson to Bavuma, 1 run, more urgency from Bavuma as he steps out and works it through midwicket
Parkinson to R Hendricks, 1 run, couldn't quite nail the inside-out drive. Wanted to get it much wider, but it's only a single to long-off
END OF OVER 10
7 Runs
RSA: 61 - 1
1 3 1 1 0 1
Reeza Hendricks
32 (30)
Temba Bavuma
15 (13)
Tom Curran
2-0-13-0
Tom Curran to R Hendricks, 1 run, length ball around middle and off, Hendricks turns it through square leg
Tom Curran to R Hendricks, no run, drilled into the blockhole on middle, Hendricks keeps it out
Tom Curran to Bavuma, 1 run, short of length delivery around off, swatted to deep midwicket
Tom Curran to R Hendricks, 1 run, back of a length on leg, clipped through square leg
Tom Curran to Bavuma, 3 runs, Bavuma sticks to his gung-ho approach and Curran's aware of it. He cuts the pace off with a back of the hand slower ball, manages to deceive Bavuma who was only able to clear mid-on as he went through with the lofted drive