24-05-2017, 18:52
After a big mid-innings wobble, that was magnificent from Moeen and Captain Morgan to swing things back in England's favour. Seeing Moeen smash Imran Tahir for three sixes off one over was a treat (only the second player ever to do so in an ODI, after Jos Buttler in Port Elizabeth last year).
Records tumbling: England's highest-ever sixth-wicket partnership against South Africa, biggest ODI total against South Africa on home soil and second-biggest against them anywhere in the world. Eoin Morgan is now England's third-highest run-scorer of all time too, having overtaken Alec Stewart in the course of that century.
339-6 off the fifty; on a belter of a pitch with four of the best batsmen in the world, South Africa will still fancy their chances, but England are making them work.
Records tumbling: England's highest-ever sixth-wicket partnership against South Africa, biggest ODI total against South Africa on home soil and second-biggest against them anywhere in the world. Eoin Morgan is now England's third-highest run-scorer of all time too, having overtaken Alec Stewart in the course of that century.
339-6 off the fifty; on a belter of a pitch with four of the best batsmen in the world, South Africa will still fancy their chances, but England are making them work.
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