Eng SA T20 Result And Preview: Morgan Mania Snuffs Out Duckworth Lewis-Hit SA By One Run!

England may be giving the hosts hope with Paul Collingwood ruled out with a sore back, and Alastair Cook captaining the team that also sees Kevin Pietersen’s hasty induction in the second Twenty20 in Centurion. But South Africa is unable to shake off the home jinx as well as the Duckworth Lewis nightmare as evident from the first Twenty20 match against the touring England team in Johanneburg.
The second Twenty20 International between South Africa and England gets underway with England winning the first match by a single run.
Rain ensured that South Africa could not go beyond the fourteenth over being bowled when they scored 127, a target reached after Albie Morkel slammed one ball for six, but South Africa fell short of the DL score by one run, reminiscent again of Shaun Pollock’s men and their exit from the 2003 World Cup against Sri Lanka.

But the story was not meant to pan out like this, not after South African captain, Graeme Smith, and opening batsman, Loots Bosman, got South Africa off to an incredible start.
Earlier in the match, England captained by Paul Collingwood, received a huge fillip in the form of Eoin Morgan’s brutal knock of eighty-five runs from fifty-four balls as his partnership with the England captain who scored fifty-seven runs from fifty-three balls meant that England set a stiff target of 203 in the first Twenty20 match in Johanneburg. Earlier Jonathan Trott also made thirty-three runs.

In reply, Smith and Bosman raised a ninety-seven run partnership in just 8.3 overs before Smith was dismissed for forty-one by Luke Wright and Bosman followed, having scored fifty-eight runs from just thirty-one balls. Ab de Villiers and Albie Morkel were just getting into their stride when the skies opened and denied South Africa a dash for victory.

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