CT Eng V SA: South Africa Have To Climb Higher To Get To Table Mountain

South Africa’s traditional strength is their bowling. And when that fails to click, South Africa are on the brink of elimination much to the horror of their fans as well as cricket experts who marked them favourites. Matt Prior’s words seemed rather loud when he stated England were going to make a drastic turnaround of their fortunes. While he himself was not present to watch another strong England performance due to injury, his team mates certainly kept his words alive.

The drama was not at the Singapore Grand Prix, the night race of Formula One, that Lewis Hamilton won from start to finish but rather at Centurion where the hosts are being tested for their mettle.
South Africa would have felt excited having broken the partnership between England captain, Andrew Strauss, and Joe Denly. However, the celebration was short lived as Paul Collingwood, Man of the Match from the last match, and Owais Shah stitched together a partnership that caused major headaches for the home team.
South Africa’s final match of Group B has been a virtual must win given that they lost the first match to Sri Lanka although they recouped to beat New Zealand. But if they thought England would be weighed down by their recent defeats against Australia in the NatWest series, they should have banished those thoughts after England beat Sri Lanka.
The 163 partnership that began in the 13th over and ended in the 39th over had a telling effect on the South Africans who once again struggled to put together a determined cohesive bowling effort that had let them down in the first match as well.
While Wayne Parnell had picked three wickets in the match, his expensive wickets have been written off as the bane of strike bowlers. However, the likes of Albie Morkel (who has not found his rhythm this series), spinners - Roelof van der Merwe and Johan Botha, leaked far too many runs for South Africa to feel confident of two points at the end of the night.
Owais Shah missed his century by two runs, Collingwood finished on eighty-two. But it was Eoin Morgan (sixty-seven runs) who showed enterprise to help England finish formidably on 323 for eight in their innings, leaving South Africa a lot to work on for the rest of the match.

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