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England v South Africa - South Africa tour of England - 5th ODI – Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers help level the series – Live Score and Update

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England v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 help level the series – Live Score and Update
England 182 (45.2 ov) v South Africa 186/3 (34.3 ov) - South Africa won by 7 wickets (with 93 balls remaining)
South Africa’s Hashim Amla and skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Allan-Robert-Border-c43726 de Villiers stood between England and a series victory, as the two batsmen smashed 97 and 75 runs to jab their side to a series draw in the five-match contest.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472he series in their clutches, but couldn’t finish off the way they wanted to, losing the series finale by seven wickets on Wednesday, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
After winning the toss England were hoping for the day to go their way, with them amassing a huge total on the board, but things went awry for the hosts in the middle after they lost their first wicket with 23 on the board, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597 fell after scoring only ten runs.
With http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RS-Bopara-c2373 perishing without scoring a run, it was upon Cook and JM Bairstow to steer England towards a big total, but with 79 on the scoreboard, it was time for JM Bairstow to take his walk back to the pavilion after he had smashed an innings of 29 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JP-Duminy-c1742 with England on a tally of 82.
Things really went south for England when they lost their skipper on a knock of 51 runs. At the time of this wicket, England had clobbered a score of 99 on the board.
Wicketkeeper/batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/C-Kieswetter-c1206 and CR Woakes then smashed 33 runs each to help the Poms post 182 on the board in 45.2 overs.
From the visitors, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RJ-Peterson-c2332 was the best bowler with three wickets to his name.
South Africa had a terrible start to their run chase when they lost opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Smith-c1473 (1) at a time when the side had put only eight runs on the board.
Then they lost two more wickets by the time they had reached 14 runs, giving http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 the confidence needed to win the match, however, the hosts lost their duel against Amla and de Villiers, as the South Africans reached the target in 34.3 overs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hamisi-Abdallah-c61368 took home the Player of Match/Series awards for his exuberant performance with the bat.

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