England 130/3
Pakistan 129/8
England beat Pakistan by seven wickets.
Pakistan was beaten in the first T-20 game against England being played in Dubai. Pakistan were overwhelmed by an unbeaten 112-run partnership between Kevin Pietersen (43) and Eoin Morgan (67).
Pakistan bated first but they faltered from the start of their innings, with Imran Nazir (2), Imran Farhat (14), Khalid Latif (4), Umar Akmal (13). After the six Powerplay overs, Pakistan had limped along to 25 for 2, their slowest start in any Twenty20 match. Shoiab Malik (33), Abdul Razzak (22) and Fawad Alam (23) steered Pakistan to 129 for the loss of eight wickets.
England made poor start to the run chase, slumping to 18 for 3 in 4.2 overs before Pietersen and Morgan turned the tide to impressive effect. Eoin Morgan was declared the man of the match for his unbeaten performance.
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JOHANNESBURG:Morne Morkel routed England’s lower-order in a spell of 3 for 0 in six deliveries, before JP Duminy extracted the battling Paul Collingwood for a brave but futile 71, as South Africa levelled the series – and retained the Basil D’Oliveira Trophy – with a crushing innings-and-74-run victory at the Wanderers.
The victory was delivered on the stroke of the lunch-break when Ryan Sidebottom missed a slog-sweep to give Duminy his second wicket in an 11-ball spell.
England had resumed the fourth day in deep trouble on 48 for 3, still trailing by 195 with two full days remaining in the contest. Collingwood responded with a gutsy and well-judged 71 from 88 balls, as he shed the outright obduracy that had carried England to safety at Centurion and Cape Town, and climbed into his cross-batted repertoire whenever South Africa strayed in line or length.
But he alone located the correct balance between watchfulness and aggression, as he picked 12 fours and a six in total, comprising an even mixture of cuts, pulls, drives and genuine edges. But all too few of his colleagues were capable of emulating his efforts. His overnight partner, Kevin Pietersen, hung around for 10 overs in the first hour and seemed to be finding his range once again as he contributed an improbably meagre three runs to a fourth-wicket stand of 36. But the debutant Wayne Parnell tempted him with an outswinger that drew a rash snick to the keeper, and that was the end of that.
Collingwood kept up the intensity, lacing Ryan McLaren through the slips before hoisting Steyn up and over long-off for the first and only six of England’s innings. But with just two wickets still standing and a deficit of 89 still to be surmounted, he was eventually extracted by JP Duminy’s first delivery of the day – a top-edged hoick off an ignominious long-hop, that flew at a comfortable height straight to Morkel at deep square leg.
Sidebottom and James Anderson played their shots for 16 deliveries, efore Sidebottom sized up one slog too many, and the rattle of timbers signalled a richly deserved South African win.
PORT ELIZABETH: South Africa Vs England 4th ODI Live Streaming, Andrew Strauss is confident his team can respond to the heavy defeat at Newlands.
The scoreline says the series is all square, but after such a convincing 112-run victory at Cape Town South Africa are now the side with the momentum.
It shows how quickly situations can change in one-day cricket and, following their crushing win in the second Twenty20 international, Friday’s performance was the second time the home side have responded to defeat in powerful style.
After a fairly insipid display at Centurion, the Newlands version of South Africa was much closer to living up to their pre-series billing.
The batting, led by AB de Villiers’ awesome striking, fired as a unit and the bowling attack packed much more punch with the inclusion of Wayne Parnell and Morne Morkel.
Parnell continued his impressive knack of bagging large hauls with a career-best 5 for 48 to follow the five-for he took against New Zealand at the Champions Trophy.
If he stays fit Parnell is set to be a key figure throughout this tour.
Watching England in any format should come with a health warning, but their one-day performances are most likely to send supporters lurching from delight to despair.
As Andrew Strauss said after the defeat at Newlands the one-day squad is a work in progress, so humbling reversals are to be expected.
It follows the pattern of the Champions Trophy when memorable victories against Sri Lanka and South Africa were followed by heavy defeats against New Zealand and Australia.
It is a quick turnaround between the weekend matches.
Both teams had early-morning alarm calls to catch flights to Port Elizabeth and England’s players were offered an optional training session.
A key feature of the Strauss-Andy Flower regime has been level-headedness and the vibes coming out of the camp are ‘don’t panic’.
Going straight into the next match means they have little time to stew over the previous performance which could work in their favour.
South Africa, though, really mean business.
Alviro Petersen has slotted well into the middle order and Hashim Amla is churning out the runs as Jacques Kallis’ understudy so South Africa’s batting is solid.
The one concern for them is Dale Steyn who bowled six overs at Newlands before leaving the field with a hamstring strain.
If he is ruled out Charl Langeveldt could be recalled, while Johan Botha may be considered for the struggling Roelof van der Merwe.
SQUAD:
South Africa: (possible) 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 AB de Villiers, 4 JP Duminy, 5 Alviro Petersen, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Ryan McLaren, 8 Wayne Parnell, 9 Roelof van der Merwe, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Charl Langeveldt
England (possible) 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Jonathan Trott, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Paul Collingwood, 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Matt Prior (wk), 7 Luke Wright, 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Tim Bresnan, 10 Graeme Swann, 11 Graham Onions.
NEW YORK: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of world’s 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, which also features
Dhoni and Sachin four other players from the sub-continent – Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.
Raking in $10 million, Dhoni is at the top of the chart followed by Tendulkar at the second spot with earnings worth $8 million in the list of ‘The World’s Top-Earning Cricketers’.
While Singh and Dravid are at the third and fourth spot, respectively, Ganguly and Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting share the sixth place.
“Paycheck figures include club and national team salaries and commercial endorsement income over the last 12 months,” Forbes said.
According to the magazine, Singh earned $5.5 million while Dravid and Ganguly raked in $5 million and $3.5 million, respectively. Ponting also earned $3.5 million.
“With its deep-pocketed owners and global appeal, nine of the 10 highest-paid cricket players call the Indian Premier League (IPL) home, the publication added.
At the fifth spot is England’s Andrew Flintoff with earnings of $4 million followed by Australia’s Brett Lee and English cricketer Kevin Pietersen – both at eighth place – and Australian Michael Clarke is ranked tenth.
While Lee and Pietersen raked in $3 million each, Clarke earned $2.5 million.
“Take Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who plays for the Chennai Super Kings and tops our list as cricket’s first $10 million-a-year man (that’s $5,426 for each run scored).
“His $8 million in endorsements, from the likes of Reebok, General Electric and Pepsi, is 45 per cent more than any other player.
“Among all Indian athletes and entertainers, Dhoni’s 17 corporate sponsors is second to only Bollywood star and co- owner of the Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan,” Forbes said.
About Tendulkar, the magazine said the holder of numerous offensive records, is considered among the greatest batsman in cricket history.
“… he’s one of five IPL players who have been bestowed ‘icon’ status, meaning he automatically receives a paycheck 15 per cent larger than his highest paid teammate.
“Tendulkar’s $ 1.1 million salary from the Mumbai Indians helped push his total earnings to $8 million over the last 12 months,” it added.
England 130/3
JOHANNESBURG:Morne Morkel routed England’s lower-order in a spell of 3 for 0 in six deliveries, before JP Duminy extracted the battling Paul Collingwood for a brave but futile 71, as South Africa levelled the series – and retained the Basil D’Oliveira Trophy – with a crushing innings-and-74-run victory at the Wanderers.
NEW YORK: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of world’s 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, which also features
