England vs SA: South Africa defeated England by 7 runs in a thrilling match of Super 8 of ICC T20 World Cup 2024. Africa challenged England to score 164 runs to win. In response, England could only score 156 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. In this match, on the strength of Quinton de Kock's 65 runs and David Miller's 43 runs along with the effective bowling of Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj and Enrique Norcia, the South African team registered their second consecutive win in the Super Eight. Also, this has become South Africa's sixth consecutive win. In such a situation, let us tell you the full status of the match.

De Kock played a brilliant innings in the ENG vs SA match

• In the England vs South Africa (ENG vs SA) match, the English team won the toss and fielded first.
• The opening pair of Reeza Hendricks and Quinton de Kock dominated the England bowlers and shared a brilliant 86-run partnership in 9.4 overs
• Of course, Hendricks' contribution in this was 19 runs. De Kock scored 65 runs in 38 balls with the help of four fours and four sixes.
• Moeen Ali broke this pair by dismissing Hendricks.
  After this the other batsmen could not do much.
• Except David Miller, no one else could do anything in batting. Miller scored 43 runs, due to which the African team was able to score 163 runs in 6 overs.
• Talking about bowling, Jofra Archer took 3 wickets for England. Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid both got 1 wicket each.

The partnership of Livingstone and Brooke took the breath away from Africa

• While chasing the target of 164 given by South Africa, England (ENG vs SA) had a very bad start.
• South Africa bowled out England's batsmen at regular intervals in the beginning.
  Phillip Salt scored 11, Johnny Bairstow 16, Jos Buttler 17 and Moeen Ali scored 9 runs.
• In this way, England's position became 64 runs for 4 wickets. But then both Liam Livingstone and Harry Brook made a decisive partnership for the fifth wicket.
• Therefore, England's hopes of victory remained till the end. Both of them made a partnership of 78 runs for the fifth wicket,
• But both of them got out at crucial moments. Liam Livingstone returned after scoring 33 runs in 17 balls. But there was still hope with Harry Brook being on the field

Markram took a brilliant catch

• South Africa (ENG vs SA) needed 14 runs in the last over.
  Harry Brook hit a big shot on the very first ball of the 20th over.
• But South Africa captain Aiden Markram took a wonderful catch while running reverse. Markram's catch was the turning point of the match.
• Harry Brook returned after scoring 53 runs in 37 balls. After this, both Sam Curran and Joffra Archer failed to give victory to England.
• Archer scored 1* and Sam Curran scored 10 not out. Kagiso Rabada and Keshav Maharaj took 2-2 wickets for South Africa.
  Otniel Bartman and Enrique Norgia both took 1-1 wickets

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