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England are leaving out so many good players today, for one reason or another, that they could give the actual team a run for its money. The only department that looks a bit skimpy is the spin bowling.
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1 Jonny Bairstow, 2 Alex Hales, 3 Joe Root, 4 Phil Salt (wkt), 5 Ben Stokes (capt), 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Liam Dawson, 9 Mark Wood, 10 Saqib Mahmood, 11 Reece Topley.
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SA 1 Quinton de Kock (wkt), 2 Temba Bavuma (capt), 3 Aiden Markram, 4 Rassie van der Dussen, 5 Heinrich Klaasen, 6 David Miller, 7 Wayne Parnell, 8 Sisanda Magala, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Anrich Nortje, 11 Tabraiz Shamsie.
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England 1 Jason Roy, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Jos Buttler (capt, wkt), 5 Harry Brook, 6 Moeen Ali, 7 Sam Curran, 8 David Willey, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Jofra Archer, 11 Olly Stone.
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Jos Buttler, who tends to be honest in his mild-mannered way, says he would have chosen to bowl first. “It looks a really good surface, but we fancied a chase.”
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Temba Bavuma wins the toss and chooses to bat. “Runs on the board,” he says. He doesn’t say: Jofra straight into action.
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Hello everyone and welcome to a series that would have taken place, Covid permitting, back in December 2020. But perhaps we’re lucky that it didn’t. For one thing, we would have forgotten all about it by now. And for another, it wouldn’t have been a chance for a thrilling talent to make a long-awaited comeback. After 22 months lost to injury, and 84 England matches missed in all formats, Jofra Archer is back in business.
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He has played five games for MI Cape Town in the SA20, taken eight wickets – and, above all, stayed fit. Now he returns to the international team that he spearheaded all the way to a World Cup win when he was an international novice. It’s hard to know who will be more nervous: Archer or the South African batters sent out to face him.
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If Jofra wasn’t such a big star, we might be talking about a mouthwatering debut. England are expected to give a first ODI cap to Harry Brook, who spent the Test tour of Pakistan batting like Bradman on speed. Jos Buttler could also hand an ODI recall to Ben Duckett, who was almost as dominant in Pakistan as Brook.
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Quiz question: when did these two teams last meet in this format? I had to look up the answer, even though it turned out to be only last July. They played a three-match series in England that finished 1-1. The last game was washed out and the one before was all over in less than half the allotted time, as England scraped 201 in 28.1 overs at Old Trafford and South Africa crumbled to 83 all out in 20.4. The chances of anything like that happening today, in the blazing heat of Bloemfontein, seem on the slim side.
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Play starts at 11am (UK time), and I’ll be back soon after 10.35 with news of the toss and the teams.
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Key events
43rd over: South Africa 241-4 (van der Dussen 98, Miller 23) Willey is taken off too, and that may be the end of his day (6-0-38-0). Back comes Olly Stone; van der Dussen, who doesn’t seem to believe in the nervous nineties, takes another two as a commanding off-drive is half-stopped and diverted to long-on.
42nd over: South Africa 233-4 (van der Dussen 93, Miller 21) Buttler wants to save Curran up for the death, so he goes back to Rashid. With the extra fielder out, there’s more scope for those twos that van der Dussen loves. He takes a couple more of them and cruises into the 90s.
41st over: South Africa 227-4 (van der Dussen 88, Miller 19) Seven off the over from David Willey. He and Archer, the opening bowlers, have none for 95 off 14 overs between them. Curran and Stone, the back-up seamers, have two for 44 off 12.
“Hi @TimdeLisle,” says Guy Hornsby, “and a happy birthday to the OBO OG Rob Smyth.” Hear, hear. “He’d love seeing Jofra back today. In fact having Stone and Wood fit together finally is something exciting. While this series is a bit inconsequential, there’s some fascinating selectorial narratives. Roy, for sure.”
40th over: South Africa 220-4 (van der Dussen 84, Miller 17) Another good over from Curran, just two from it. It’s as if nobody has told him this is a flat pitch. With ten overs to go, SA are probably 40 short of where they should be. They need van der Dussen to stay there and Miller to go berserk.
39th over: South Africa 218-4 (van der Dussen 83, Miller 16) It’s a double change as David Willey replaces Moeen and forms a leftie pincer movement with Curran. He picks up where he left off earlier by drifting onto the pads, giving van der Dussen two more twos. Adam Smith would approve.
38th over: South Africa 212-4 (van der Dussen 78, Miller 15) As the pendulum swings again, what’s a fielding captain to do? Bring back Sam Curran, of course. He doesn’t take a wicket but does get the plug in, restricting the batters to three singles.
“Dearest Tim,” begins the next email. Someone seems to be softening me up… “I’m no economist,” it goes on, “but surely van der Dussen’s ‘classy reverse sweep’ was worth precisely the two that it brought, as indicated by Adam Smith’s remarks on ‘the invisible hand of the scorer.’ Yours always, Mac Millings.” Ha.
37th over: South Africa 209-4 (van der Dussen 76, Miller 14) Another handsome shot from van der Dussen, off-driving Moeen with authority.
36th over: South Africa 202-4 (van der Dussen 70, Miller 13) Archer follows his best over of the day with his worst as van der Dussen picks his length really well, cutting the first ball for four, cover-driving the next for four more.
35th over: South Africa 191-4 (van der Dussen 60, Miller 12) Time for Miller to go big. Facing Moeen, he makes room, chips the ball to long-off … and is dropped dover the rope! By Chris Woakes, who must be on as a sub – uncharacteristically sloppy from him.
34th over: South Africa 181-4 (van der Dussen 57, Miller 5) Jofra Archer bowls his seventh over of the day – and best. He concedes only run and tests van der Dussen with a series of lifters. His pace is 86-88mph, not his fastest but sharp enough.
33rd over: South Africa 180-4 (van der Dussen 57, Miller 4) Another change as Moeen returns. No fireworks yet from David Miller, but van der Dussen plays a classy reverse sweep that is worth more than the two it brings.
32nd over: South Africa 175-4 (van der Dussen 54, Miller 3) Buttler holds a meeting and decides that the time is right for another burst of Jofra Archer. He’s so rhythmic, so grooved, that it’s hard to work out why he hasn’t taken a wicket, but this is a decent over that goes for just four singles. And that’s drinks, with England on top again. They just need to winkle out van der Dussen.
31st over: South Africa 171-4 (van der Dussen 52, Miller 0) So Rashid, after seeing one sweep go for four, turns the next one into the breakthrough that England needed. His figures are 7-0-37-1 and he has got rid of Klaasen, one of the two middle-order dangermen. The other, David Miller, is in now.
Wicket! Klaasen LBW b Rashid 30 (SA 171-4)
And there it is! Adil Rashid, the world’s leading white-ball spinner, seizes the wheel and lures Klaasen into an ill-advised sweep. Up goes the finger and SA don’t even bother to review.
30th over: South Africa 168-3 (van der Dussen 50, Klaasen 29) A quick single brings yet another ODI fifty for Rassie van der Dussen, off 63 balls. His country needs him to finish on 115 not out. Before that, Stone blotted his copybook with a short ball that was whipped for six by Klaasen, to bring up the fifty partnership. England need a wicket. Stokes would be telling Malan to get loose.
29th over: South Africa 160-3 (van der Dussen 49, Klaasen 22) One thing England haven’t got right has been the last ball of the over, which has too often been expensive. Rashid follows five singles with a freebie, firmly swept for four by van der Dussen.
“Overbowling Archer (17th over),” says John Starbuck, with his usual efficiency. “I think we have to give Buttler some credit here. If he had pulled Archer after only four overs, he’d be planting in the bowler’s mind the idea that he’s only good for four overs in an innings, whereas, even with giving away so many runs, he’d be thinking he’s regarded as more reliable. Psychology, you know.” Have you got a degree in people?
28th over: South Africa 151-3 (van der Dussen 43, Klaasen 19) Stone, playing the situation, pulls out a thrifty over when England need it: four dots, two singles. He’s shaping well as Mark Wood’s understudy, keeping the batters honest in the middle overs.
27th over: South Africa 147-3 (van der Dussen 42, Klaasen 18) Klaasen’s attacking instincts bring their reward as he picks Rashid’s length early and heaves a pull for six. That is only the third boundary in the last 17 overs, but it’s another sign that SA are recovering from their bad spell. These two have added 33 off 29 balls: now they just need to add another 70 off 60.
26th over: South Africa 140-3 (van der Dussen 40, Klaasen 11) Stone’s extra velocity draws a false shot from Klaasen, but he gets away with it as his top-edged pull lands safely to the left of Harry Brook at deep square. It’s going to be very interesting to see Brook bat on this pitch, which is as flat as the surfaces on which he starred in Pakistan, but not as low and slow.
25th over: South Africa 135-3 (van der Dussen 38, Klaasen 8) Another string of singles, five of them, off Rashid. At the halfway mark England are the happier of the two teams, but SA are showing signs of getting back on top. So much depends on whether van der Dussen can bat through and allow the dashers to do their thing. A caption just now told us that he has the second-highest batting average of all time in men’s ODIs, among those with 1000 runs – he’s on 70, just behind Shubman Gill of India. The batters of the past weren’t really trying, were they?
24th over: South Africa 130-3 (van der Dussen 35, Klaasen 6) Stone, coming back down to earth, mixes up his lengths but can’t stop these two helping themselves to a single off every ball.
23rd over: South Africa 124-3 (van der Dussen 32, Klaasen 3) Klaasen is a good player of spin, Kevin Pietersen is saying, but it’s van der Dussen who hits the first four off Rashid. He stays deep in his crease and middles a pull into the wide open spaces at deep midwicket.
22nd over: South Africa 117-3 (van der Dussen 27, Klaasen 1) Here’s Heinrich Klaasen, who’s been in form for Super Giants in the SA20. He’s looking aggressive right away, but he plays and misses at Stone, who has made a dream start here – one over for one run and one wicket.
Wicket! Markram c Malan b Stone 13 (SA 116-3)
Olly Stone strikes with his first ball! It’s regulation stuff, in the channel outside off, but Aiden Markram goes at it with hard hands and gives a chance to short cover, sharply taken by Dawid Malan.
21st over: South Africa 116-2 (van der Dussen 27, Markram 13) Another good over from Rashid, going for only two as Jason Roy makes a fine stop.
20th over: South Africa 114-2 (van der Dussen 26, Markram 12) Jos Buttler seems to have a policy today of giving the bowlers longish spells. If Ben Stokes was in charge, we would have seen seven bowlers by now and Dawid Malan would have taken a wicket with his leg-breaks. As it is, Curran continues and he concedes his first wide, followed by his first four, off his 30th ball, as Markram nails a pull in front of square. That’s the first boundary for exactly ten overs.
19th over: South Africa 106-2 (van der Dussen 24, Markram 7) One seasoned spinner gives way to another as Adil Rashid takes over from his mate Mo. He’s on the spot straight away, going for only two singles and deceiving van der Dussen with his speciality, the well-aimed googly.
18th over: South Africa 104-2 (van der Dussen 23, Markram 6) On paper this is Sam Curran’s worst over, going for a full four runs, but he nearly nabs another wicket in a way that is typical of his chutzpah. After bowling a bouncer that is pulled for two, quite comfortably, by van der Dussen, he follows up with another one. It’s pulled again, but van der Dussen doesn’t get hold of it and it drops just short of Moeen at midwicket. Curran has 4-0-9-1 and he has made this match so much more interesting.
17th over: South Africa 100-2 (van der Dussen 20, Markram 5) As Moeen bowls his fifth over, van der Dussen plays the best stroke for ages, a dainty reverse sweep for three.
“Good to see,” says Pete Salmon, “that England have responded to the damage caused by overbowling Archer by overbowling Archer.” That is a great line.
16th over: South Africa 94-2 (van der Dussen 16, Markram 3) Another Curran over, another little masterclass – four dots, two singles. He is varying his pace, mostly bowling line and length with the odd bumper. The one that did for de Kock was higher than I thought, aimed at the lid more than the face, and that was why the pull shot was uncontrolled. And that’s drinks with the game evenly poised: if it was a football match, the score would be South Africa 1, Curran 1.
15th over: South Africa 92-2 (van der Dussen 15, Markram 2) Moeen continues and concedes five singles. After 15 overs, it’s been an innings of three thirds: 31-0 off the first five overs, 44-0 off the next five, and 17-2 off the last five. Curran has changed the game.
14th over: South Africa 87-2 (van der Dussen 12) England’s new-ball bowlers served up nine overs on this flat pitch and took none for 66. Sam Curran has bowled two overs and taken one for three, plus a stunning catch. He’s like an impact sub who is on for the whole game.
Wicket! de Kock c Buttler b Curran 37 (SA 87-2)
Sam Curran does it again! He bowls that waspish little bouncer of his, right in Quinton de Kock’s face, and an attempted pull ends up as a nick down the leg side.
13th over: South Africa 86-1 (de Kock 37, van der Dussen 11) Moeen, taking the hint, produces three dots to go with three singles. England are clawing their way back into this.
12th over: South Africa 83-1 (de Kock 36, van der Dussen 8) Jofra gets a breather at last as Sam Curran comes on. He’s been all or nothing this winter – player of the tournament in the T20 World Cup, then right out of form in the SA20. But he’s already made his mark on this match, showing the mettle that Ed Smith spotted in him five years ago, and now he bowls the first tight over for some time, going for only two singles and beating de Kock outside off stump.
11th over: South Africa 81-1 (de Kock 35, van der Dussen 8) A less eventful over from Moeen, mostly singles.
10th over: South Africa 75-1 (de Kock 33, van der Dussen 4) A fifth over for Archer, and de Kock is thinking “he must be tiring now”. He plays his first big shot, a pull for six, and then drives the resulting full one for another of those cool-headed fours. The PowerPlay ends with SA on top, the run rate around nine for the past five overs, and more than half the total (41) coming off Archer, who has been a little unlucky.
9th over: South Africa 65-1 (de Kock 22, van der Dussen 4) So that was an inspired bowling change from Buttler, who spurned both his back-up seamers (Curran and Stone) and his go-to spinner, Adil Rashid, and turned to his vice-captain Moeen. The idea was probably to winkle out the left-handed de Kock, though it was Bavuma who succumbed. It was actually a ropey over, with a boundary each for Bavuma and his replacement, Rassie van der Dussen, but that was a price worth paying.
WICKET! Bavuma c Curran b Moeen Ali 36 (SA 61-1)
The breakthrough! Bavuma mistimes a slog off Moeen and Sam Curran takes a fabulous catch, throwing himself to his left at mid-on and scooping the ball up just before it hits the turf.
8th over: South Africa 56-0 (de Kock 22, Bavuma 32) Archer, too, gets a fourth over, so he’s already bowled as much today as in any match in the past two months. He is still rhythmic and mostly accurate, but there’s one bad ball, a half-volley on middle-and-leg, and again Bavuma tucks it away. Time for a change, surely.
7th over: South Africa 51-0 (de Kock 21, Bavuma 28) Still no bowling change from Jos Buttler, and he may regret it as Willey is anodyne again. He hands out a few singles before producing another gift-wrapped last ball of the over, a freebie on the pads that is clipped away by Bavuma. That brings up the fifty partnership off 42 balls.
6th over: South Africa 44-0 (de Kock 19, Bavuma 23) Scrap that! Bavuma has discovered the boundary. As Archer drops short, Bavuma, who is short and makes himself shorter still by standing with his feet wide apart, gets under the ball and plays a flamboyant flip-pull that almost goes for six to deep square. Archer responds with another lifter, but it veers down leg for another wide. After a couple of singles, there’s yet another bouncer, a better one, which Bavuma top-edges over the slips, and this one does go for six.
That over leaves Archer with bad figures (3-0-26-0), but it was better than it looks in the scorebook.
5th over: South Africa 31-0 (de Kock 18, Bavuma 12) SA’s game plan is clear: Bavuma is getting ’em in singles and twos, de Kock is only interested in boundaries. Willey bowls a wide half-volley, almost yorker-length, and de Kock crouches down to swipe it through the covers. He has four fours, Bavuma none, and together they’ve made a fine start.
4th over: South Africa 26-0 (de Kock 14, Bavuma 11) A little bit of everything in this second over from Archer. His radar goes awry for the first time as he bowls a wide down the leg side. Bavuma tries to cover-drive him on the up but can only get the toe-end on it. Archer beats him on the inside edge and appeals for LBW, but it’s too high, and then de Kock, yet again, hits the last ball of the over for four with a crisp straight punch. He’s looking ominously well-organised.
3rd over: South Africa 18-0 (de Kock 10, Bavuma 8) Willey manages more swing but less accuracy, straying onto the pads repeatedly to give Bavuma two twos and a three. With de Kock adding another two, South Africa have a little bonanza without scoring a four.
We have an email! “I reckon that missing XI beats this team 7 times out of 10,” says Ben Duxbury. “The top 3 looks miles better than this one for a start.” Buttler and Matthew Mott are certainly showing a lot of faith in Jason Roy, whose bad patch has turned into a proper slump.
2nd over: South Africa 9-0 (de Kock 8, Bavuma 1) Archer runs in nice and easy, as if he’d never been away. Quinton de Kock treats him the same way he treated Willey, waiting for the one bad ball, which is overpitched and pushed back past the bowler for four. But that’s a promising start from Jofra.
It’s Jofra time! Or as the Guardian spellcheck wants to call it, Jiffy time. His first ball is almost Jaffa time – bang on target, heading for the off bail and taking the shoulder of Bavuma’s bat.
1st over: South Africa 4-0 (de Kock 4, Bavuma 0) Willey finds little swing but plenty of accuracy line’n’length and de Kock is watchful, playing out five dots before seizing on the first bad ball, wide and full, and slashing it past backward point. The pitch is flat, brown and bouncy. “It will be a high-scoring day today,” says one of the home commentators.
The players are out there and so is the sun. David Willey has the new ball in his hand, ready to give us one over of booming swing.
Both these teams lost their last ODI series. South Africa went 1-0 up in India before losing 2-1, and England were whitewashed in Australia in a series which, if only the ICC awards were a bit more broad-minded, would have been a shoo-in for Anticlimax of the Year.
England’s missing XI
England are leaving out so many good players today, for one reason or another, that they could give the actual team a run for its money. The only department that looks a bit skimpy is the spin bowling.
1 Jonny Bairstow, 2 Alex Hales, 3 Joe Root, 4 Phil Salt (wkt), 5 Ben Stokes (capt), 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Liam Dawson, 9 Mark Wood, 10 Saqib Mahmood, 11 Reece Topley.
So no Chris Woakes for England, which is a surprise. In fact, no classic right-arm seamer: Buttler has gone with two quicks, two lefties, a leggie and an offie. Bags of variety, but they may miss Woakes as the innings goes on and Archer, who has been bowling only four overs every couple of days, gets tired. “It’s gonna be a long day,” he says, “but I’m ready for it.”
The teams
SA 1 Quinton de Kock (wkt), 2 Temba Bavuma (capt), 3 Aiden Markram, 4 Rassie van der Dussen, 5 Heinrich Klaasen, 6 David Miller, 7 Wayne Parnell, 8 Sisanda Magala, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Anrich Nortje, 11 Tabraiz Shamsie.
England 1 Jason Roy, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Jos Buttler (capt, wkt), 5 Harry Brook, 6 Moeen Ali, 7 Sam Curran, 8 David Willey, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Jofra Archer, 11 Olly Stone.
England would have bowled anyway
Jos Buttler, who tends to be honest in his mild-mannered way, says he would have chosen to bowl first. “It looks a really good surface, but we fancied a chase.”
Toss: SA win and bat
Temba Bavuma wins the toss and chooses to bat. “Runs on the board,” he says. He doesn’t say: Jofra straight into action.
Preamble: Jofra time!
Hello everyone and welcome to a series that would have taken place, Covid permitting, back in December 2020. But perhaps we’re lucky that it didn’t. For one thing, we would have forgotten all about it by now. And for another, it wouldn’t have been a chance for a thrilling talent to make a long-awaited comeback. After 22 months lost to injury, and 84 England matches missed in all formats, Jofra Archer is back in business.
He has played five games for MI Cape Town in the SA20, taken eight wickets – and, above all, stayed fit. Now he returns to the international team that he spearheaded all the way to a World Cup win when he was an international novice. It’s hard to know who will be more nervous: Archer or the South African batters sent out to face him.
If Jofra wasn’t such a big star, we might be talking about a mouthwatering debut. England are expected to give a first ODI cap to Harry Brook, who spent the Test tour of Pakistan batting like Bradman on speed. Jos Buttler could also hand an ODI recall to Ben Duckett, who was almost as dominant in Pakistan as Brook.
Quiz question: when did these two teams last meet in this format? I had to look up the answer, even though it turned out to be only last July. They played a three-match series in England that finished 1-1. The last game was washed out and the one before was all over in less than half the allotted time, as England scraped 201 in 28.1 overs at Old Trafford and South Africa crumbled to 83 all out in 20.4. The chances of anything like that happening today, in the blazing heat of Bloemfontein, seem on the slim side.
Play starts at 11am (UK time), and I’ll be back soon after 10.35 with news of the toss and the teams.