England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024: Champions England meet in-form Proteas in blockbuster clash

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Keshav Maharaj sends back Jonny Bairstow. Well Nortje has made amends for Klaasen’s mistake.

Bairstow c Nortje b Maharaj 16 (20)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 43/2 in 6.5 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Look away South Africa, this is an ugly one, uglier than the four Bairstow got in the previous over. First ball of the fourth by Rabada, tries to go inside out and hits it to deep third where Klaasen runs in to take it. The ball pops out of his hands and the batters run a single. The easiest of catches put down. Buttler takes another single in that over and so just two from it but how costly will that drop prove, only time will tell. Buttler on four off seven, Bairstow on 10 off as many.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 28/1 in 4 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Three runs off the first three balls and then Jansen nails a yorker fifth ball, only for it to be a no ball! Free hit delivery comes with Bairstow facing up, it is a low full toss, Bairstow gets into an almighty mess trying to jam his bat down, it takes an inside edge and runs behind to the fine leg boundary. Single to end the over.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 26/1 in 3 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: What a big moment that is in this game. Salt goes for an aerial drive fifth ball of the second, Hendricks goes flying to his left at covers and takes it one-handed. Let’s see how England recovers from this one.

Salt c Hendricks b Rabada 11 (8)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 15/1 in 1.5 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Jansen starts with two dots. The first ball was on Salt’s hips and Kagiso Rabada almost took an extraordinary catch at leg gully. The second one is full and Salt misses his wild swing. The third is short and Salt absolutely pulverises that to the square leg fence. two singles off the last two balls and that makes it eight runs off the first over.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Here is Phil Salt and he will face Marco Jansen. Captain Jos Buttler at the non-striker’s end. England need to chase down 164.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Is this a good surface or a sluggish one? That is what the commentators were wondering halfway through this innings as they saw that everybody apart from Quinton de Kock struggled to score runs. David Miller also got close to getting to a half-century later on but England have well and truly put South Africa through the ringer here. If the pitch is as good as the commentators reckoned before this innings, this should be a real uphill task for South Africa to defend this.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Jofra Archer has got three wickets thus far today, all three of them thanks to some excellent catches. Archer pitches up the second delivery of the over to Marco Jansen whio slices it. Curran runs back as the ball comes over his shoulder and dives to take the catch.

Jansen c Curran b Archer 0 (1)

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 155/5 in 19.2 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Miller launches the first ball of the last over bowled by Archer down the ground. Brook runs in from long-off and dives to complete the catch.

Miller c Brook b Archer 43 (28)

ENG vs SA Live Score: SA 155/5 in 19.1 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Stubbs yet to find his timing but Miller is finding the boundary more consistently. Archer bowls his third over in the 18th, Stubbs clips the second ball to midwicket for a single. Then Archer goes round the wicket to Miller, sends in the third ball full and straight, the batter sends that over deep backward square leg for a six. A single off the fifth ball and that is that.

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 141/4 in 18 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Wood returns for the 16th over, is welcomed back by Miller with a pull through midwicket for four. Two dot balls follow and then Miller swipes the fourth one down to fine leg for another four. A single and then the sixth ball, which is short, is sent fine to the boundary by Tristan Stubbs. Miller is on 22 off 16, Stubbs on five off two.

ENG vs SA live Score: South Africa 128/4 in 16 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Chopped on! The South African captain is too early on the shot and Rashid celebrates.

Markram b Rashid 1 (2)

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 113/4 in 14.4 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: First a stunner of a catch to get De Kock, then a ridiculous catch to send back Klaasen, England’s captain doing the business here. You had to see it to believe it. Mark Wood bowling his first over in the 14th, Klaasen steps to leg side, the pacer follows him and it ends up being a wide well down the leg side. The batters set off after the ball hits Buttler on the pads and he has to scamper after it. However, he picks it up turns around and unleashes a bullet throw while completely off balance in one slick movement. That hits the stumps at the non-striker’s end and Klaasen just continues jogging towards the dressing room. Take a bow Jos!

Klaasen run out (Buttler) 9 (13)

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 103/3 in 13.5 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Oh that is quite something from the England captain, Jofra Archer strikes. Short delivery from Archer, pace off, De Kock has a waft at it and it takes an edge. It flies high above Buttler who leaps to his left and takes it one-handed in the air. A brilliant catch to end a brilliant innings.

de Kock c Buttler b Archer 65 (38)

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 92/2 in 11.5 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Just two runs in the 11th over. Heinrich Klaasen manages to get off strike first ball, the batters run a leg bye off the third ball and then Klaasen is pinned to the crease for the rest of the over. Klaasen is on two off five, De Kock on 64 odd 36. Rashid has been instrumental in bringing South Africa’s run rate grinding down in these middle overs.

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 89/1 in 11 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Well it had to happen. It has been nearly 10 overs and Hendricks was still playing at a strike rate well below 100. He comes down the track to the fifth ball of the 10th over by Moeen, hits it straight to mid-on. The opening stand ends on 88.

Hendricks c Brook b Ali 19 (25)

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 86/1 in 9.5 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Rashid returns to bowl the ninth over, Hendricks gets off strike first ball and then de Kock slog sweeps a googly to deep backward square leg. Mark Wood takes it low, De Kock hangs around though as the umpires send it upstairs. The third umpire takes a long, hard look at it. It was a very low catch indeed and in the end, the third umpire decides that the ball was grounded. England are very unhappy about this, Wood and Buttler arguing with the onfield umpire about this. Well if every player in the world, including the English, hadn’t kept complaining about the soft signal, these umpires would have had some power to influence that decision. But, the ICC has taken away the power from the only officials who can see something like this in 3D and England have no choice but to move on. Four more runs in that over, the boundaries have dried up for South Africa.

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 80/0 in 9 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Adil Rashid brought on to bowl the seventh over, De Kock gets to the mark with a single off the third ball. Total of six runs in that over, De Kock is on 53 off 24, Hendricks still struggling on 13 off 18.

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 69/0 in 7 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Sam Curran bowls the last over of the powerplay, Livingstone just about stops the first ball from going for four after De Kock cuts it betweeen backward point and cover but the batters run three. A leg bye off the third ball and then De Kock smashes the fourth ball over midwicket for a six. Two runs off the last two balls, de Kock is on 49 off just 20, Hendricks on 11 off 16.

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 63/0 in 6 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Jofra Archer has been smashed everywhere by Quinton de Kock here and given a final hit by Reeza Hendricks.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Moeen Ali bowls the second over, early introduction of spin from Engalnd. De Kock comes down the track to Moeen fifth ball and sends it past mid-on. The last ball is sent over long-off for a six. De Kock on 11 off five, Hendricks on three off seven.

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 14/0 in 2 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Hendricks puts the fifth ball through point and that gives the batters enough time to run two. Hendricks has been very watchful in this first over, he would be keen to get a good score here, it has been a while since he got among the runs.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Reece Topley bowling the first over for England, Reeza Hendricks on strike with Quinton de Kock at the other end.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: The two sets of players are standing adjacent to each other. First comes South Africa’s national anthem and then England’s.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: SA had brought in an extra spinner for the match against the USA. That extra spinner stays in Keshav Maharaj but Tabraiz Shamsi is on the bench with pacer Ottneil Baartman returning to the eleven.

South Africa XI: Quinton de Kock(w), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram(c), David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ottneil Baartman

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Jos Buttler says that England don’t really find any reason to make changes of any kind considering how well it all went against the West indies.

England XI: Philip Salt, Jos Buttler(w/c), Harry Brook, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Reece Topley

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Jos Buttler calls it right and says that England are bowling first

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Kagiso Rabada didn’t have a great time in New York despite the pitch being so friendly towards his pacers. Strangely enough, it was in the batter-friendly conditions in Antigua that the South African pace spearhead found his groove. Rabada took three wickets and conceded just 18 runs in his four overs, an economy of 4.50.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: South Africa’s victory against USA was their fifth in a row, more than they have ever managed in the T20 World Cup. This is quite a deceptive winning streak though, as the Proteas have looked quite vulnerable a number of times. They may have been playing on tough pitches but that is no excuse for struggling to beat Nepal and the Netherlands. They also seemed to lose the plot for a bit when Andries Gous and Harmeet Singh started getting USA’s chase in order in their previous match.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Those that followed the IPL this season, particularly KKR fans, would know that the Phil Salt is onto something special this year. Against the West Indies, for whom his KKR opening partner in crime Sunil Narine used to play, he unleashed the full array of shots in his arsenal, mostly inside a single over. England were chasing a target of 181 and Salt was on the money right from the get-go. He finished unbeaten on 87 off 47 as England won the match in the 18th over. The catalyst for that was Salt going 4, 6, 4, 6, 6 and 4 in the 16th over by Romario Shepherd. England had needed 40 to win from 30 balls before that over, they needed 10 to win from 20 at the end of it.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: It is hot and humid but there is little to no chances of rain today. If everything stays typical to St Lucia, we could have a 40-over batting slugfest today.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: St Lucia is a great wicket for batting. 160 has been crossed 19 times at the venue in 42 innings. The team chasing has a marginal advantage winning 10 of the 19 matches at the venue. The two highest team totals in this tournament have been witnessed at St Lucia. Sri Lanka piled on 201/6 against the Netherlands while the West Indies blasted 218/5 against Afghanistan.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: The England captain will be the only one from his country to get to that mark and the ninth overall. Five of the players in that list are South Africans – Reeza Hendricks, Matthew Breetzke, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen and Ryan Rickelton. Buttler has scored 981 runs thus far this year in 28 innings at an average of 40.87 and strike rate of 145.76. He has scored as many as two centuries and four half-centuries.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: The head-to-head record between England and South Africa is all-square with each team having won 12 matches against the other. At T20 World Cups, South Africa hold the upper hand and have beaten England four times in their six meetings, including their most recent clash in Sharjah in 2021.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Unlike Nortje, Kagiso Rabada hasn’t hit the ground running in this tournament. Unfortunately for England, hitting the ground running is exactly what he did during South Africa’s previous game against USA.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: The pacer didn’t have a great time in the IPL this season, taking just seven wickets in six matches and going at an economy of 13.36.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: England have won all four T20Is they have played in St Lucia and South Africa have lost both of theirs. Both sides played their first T20I here as part of the 2010 T20 World Cup. South Africa lost to India by 14 runs on May 2 while England beat New Zealand by three wickets eight days later.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: The senior wicketkeeper-batter was by no means struggling in the group stage but scores of 20, 0, 18 and 10 are well below his lofty standards. It has to be noted, though, that three of those matches were played in New York, scourge of the batting world, and another tricky pitch in Kingstown. In Antigua, De Kock managed to unleash himself. He scored 74 in 40 balls, his innings punctuated by seven fours and five sixes, and it turned out to be the difference between the two sides considering how United States fought back towards the end of their chase.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: South Africa beat the USA by 18 runs while England beat the West Indies by eight wickets. While South Africa got a comfortable margin of victory in the end, it was not so straightforward as there was a period after the 15th over where they seemed to be panicking under the American onslaught led by Andries Gous. England had a seemingly tough task in hand of chasing down a target of 181 but Phil Salt rubbished it away by blasting 30 runs off Romario Shepherd in the 16th over.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Quinton de Kock(w), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram(c), David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi, Ryan Rickelton, Ottneil Baartman, Bjorn Fortuin, Gerald Coetzee

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Philip Salt, Jos Buttler(w/c), Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Reece Topley, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Chris Jordan, Tom Hartley

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: It’s a heavyweight clash that awaits us at the Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia. England are the defending champions, South Africa have a star-studded squad who have been impressive thus far in this tournament. Stay tuned for more updates.