South Africa beat England for the first time in an ODI at Headingley on Tuesday afternoon in stunning fashion.
It was fifth time lucky for the visitors, who made a 36-hour journey to get here after beating Australia 2-1 away from home just last week, and they picked up where they left off.
England were bowled out for just 131, with Temba Bavuma’s team chasing that down with ease for the loss of just three wickets inside 21 overs.
The visitors won the toss and elected to put England in to bat on what looked to be a good surface.
However, England lost seven wickets for just 49 runs to be bowled out inside 25 overs before debutant Sonny Baker was smashed around the park with 56 being taken from his first four overs.
Despite the terrible end to their innings, England were handily placed at 82/2 before the runout of the skipper Harry Brook set in motion a collapse – bowled out for just 131.
In the process, Brook made history to be the first England white-ball captain to be runout in an ODI.
Brook’s wicket proved to be a turning pointGettyDespite only finishing a white-ball tour of Australia last weekend, South Africa’s bowlers were bang on the money and backed up in the field with every chance gobbled up – including a remarkable grab from keeper Ryan Rickleton to snag Joe Root (14).
With the ball nipping around, England were the team that looked jet-lagged with several of the batters the architects of their own downfall.
Jamie Smith was the only player to go past 20 but even he will feel he threw his wicket away, flicking Wiaan Mulder (3/33) off his legs to be caught on the boundary for 54.
Brook (12) will also rue his dismissal as he failed to make his ground after being sent back attempting a non-existent second run.
Jacob Bethell (1) and Will Jacks (7) were both undone by the world’s number one ODI bowler Keshav Maharaj, and then, there were audible groans from a capacity crowd as Jos Buttler (15) and Jofra Archer (0) both edged Mulder behind from successive balls.
Jos Buttler was one of many players who failed to deliverGettyThe innings wrapped up quickly after with Maharaj taking 4/22 before Baker endured a sorry start to his International career.
South Africa reached 50 inside five overs, with Adian Markram smashing Baker around Headingley to reach his own fifty from just 23 balls, a record for South Africa in ODIs.
At the other end, Archer was causing problems seeing Rickelton edge just short of Root at second slip with the 3rd umpire calling in favour of the batter.
It wouldn’t have mattered to England if they’d reviewed a close LBW shout the next ball, but Brook decided not to go upstairs.
After such a blistering start to their innings, the game was as good as done, but the Headingley crowd finally found its voice with Smith’s stunning one-handed catch to remove Markram for 86 as Adil Rashid (3/26) took three late wickets to put a bit of cheer back into the steps of those who’d stayed until the end.
A day/nighter that could have gone past 8pm finally reached its somewhat inevitable conclusion just after 5 o’clock with less than 50 overs of the allotted 100 bowled.
With the second ODI on Thursday England don’t have much time to turn things around, but Brook will want his men to bounce back from their first defeat under his captaincy.
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