England Under 19 v South Africa Under 19 – Match Recap
South Africa Under-19s 298/5 (50 ov) v England Under-19s 148 (38 ov)
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013’s Under-19 in fourth game of Youth ODI series, on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at Arundel Castle Cricket Club Ground. Proteas won the game by a margin of 150 runs.
With the win the Proteas have taken a 2-1 lead in seven match series. English skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Ball-c41883 won the toss and decided to field first, just like he had done in their previous encounter.
Though, this time around the visitors made the home side pay by posting a mammoth total of 298 runs on board for the loss of five wickets. England in their reply could only muster 148 runs and were all dismissed in 38th over.
The 18-year-old Gihahn Cloete was South Africa’s best batsman of the day as 124 runs came of his bat. Wicket-keeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Quinton-de-Kock-c82885 laid complete support and added 66 runs while the 17-year-old Shaylin Pillay’s cameo of 42 also helped Proteas cause.
South Africa also bowled pretty well, Corné Dry, who was making his Youth ODI debut, showed a lot of promise as the 18-year-old medium pacer was the highest wicket taker of the match. The youngster grabbed three wickets from five overs while conceding just
17 runs. Regardt Verster and Prenelan Subrayen chipped in with two wickets a piece.
Earlier in the day, Proteas skipper Keaton Jennings and Kock opened the proceedings for South African team. Jennings failed to play a captains knock and got out of the bowling of Reece Topley, with teams tally standing at eight.
However, Cloete and Kock stabilised the innings by compiling 101 runs for the second wicket. Kock, who was the major contributor in their stand, got out in 25th over. Sam Wood, who was the most economical bowler from Poms side, was the one who
took his wicket.
Pillay came out to bat at the demise of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wood-c98110 and along with Cloete continued the good stuff. The duo didn’t let the run rate take a plunge as they scored at 5.83 runs an over during their stand of 103 runs.
Pillay was eventually shown the door by English medium-pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aneesh-Kapil-c44658 in the 42nd over. At that time Proteas were all geared up for the onslaught to begin.
Incoming batsman James Price was in no mood to hang around, the right-handed, who was accompanied by Cloete maintained a run rate of 11.61 runs per over during their 60 runs fourth wicket partnership. Price fell in 47th over and was soon followed
by Cloete, who was run-out in 50th over.
In pursuit of 299, English batsmen never got out of their shelves. Proteas bowlers maintained pressure from the start, by bowling in the right channels and fielders backed them very well.
Poms batsmen were never allowed to settle and develop any partnership as South Africans kept on taking wickets at regular intervals. English openers, Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sam Wood, failed miserably as both were back in pavilion with just 31 runs on the
scorecard.
The story was pretty much the same for middle and lower order. Even the highest partnership from English side, which was between Ramanpreet Singh and Sam Kelsall, was of 29 runs. No batsman from England could cross the 30 run mark. Peter Burgoyne was the
top scorer with 28 runs.
The fifth match of the series will be played on July 26, England will look to bounce back in that game and level the series while South Africans would want to build on the winning momentum.
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