Quote from: Shadiq on September 03, 2025, 07:30:52 AM

South Africa has been looking strong recently, having recently won the World Test Championship and also winning bilateral series with great performances. South Africa won the first match of the 3-match ODI series against hosts England by a huge margin with a great performance. Host England's performance in this match was absolutely disappointing and very annoying.

Playing at home, getting all out for just 131 runs was a very sad thing for the hosts, especially for the fans. Only 1 of the England batsmen managed to score a fifty and only 4 players managed to score double figures. The rest of the seven were out in single figures, pushing the team into disaster. Batting against 131 runs, the Proteas achieved the target of 132 runs in just 21 overs and won by a huge margin of 7 wickets.

Aiden Markram played very well in the first ODI which they played against England International cricket team because he gave good start to his team and after that team achieved the target very easily. He played with strike rate of 156 which was good according to requirement because that was ODI match and team required only 132 runs to win the match. Ryan Rickelton was a person who made 31 runs and he was good performer and he was not out till end of the match.Jamie Smith played very well in the last match but team required century and nobody could make century in this match and Jamie Smith was opener in this match.Other players performance was very poor in this match and that was the reason they lost this match in the end.