England vs South Africa 1st ODI Highlights: The South African cricket team’s tour of England has started with a resounding victory. After losing the ODI series against India, the host England team has also lost the first match of the ODI series against South Africa. The visiting South African team took a 1-0 lead in the series after defeating England by 62 runs in this ODI match played at Chester Le Street.

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In the first ODI, South African team won the toss and decided to bat first. His decision was also proved right by top-order batsman Rassie van der Dussen who hit a scintillating century to push the England bowlers on the back foot. Opener Malan’s innings of 57 runs, Rasi extended the good start and played a blistering innings of 134 runs in 117 balls, which included 10 fours.

Markram also won hearts

Apart from Rasi van der Dussen, Aiden Markram also supported him well and played a fine half-century. Markram played a blistering innings of 77 runs in 61 balls. In the end, David Miller scored an unbeaten 24 runs in 14 balls. As South Africa scored a mammoth total of 333 runs in 50 overs, losing 5 wickets. During this, Liam Livingstone took 2 wickets for England. While Sam Curran, Moeen Ali and Brydon Kars took 1-1 wickets.

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England falter after a good start

In reply, the England team had a big target of 334 runs. They got off to a good start and the top three batsmen kept their hopes up while batting well. Jason Roy scored 43 runs, while Jonny Bairstow scored 63 runs and Joe Root scored 86 runs. But after that the innings went on faltering and no other batsman was able to cross the team. As a result, the entire English team was reduced to 271 runs in 46.5 overs. Anrich Norkea took 4 wickets for South Africa. While Shamsi and Markram took 2-2 wickets, Ngidi and Keshav Maharaj took 1-1.

Along with this, the ODI career of a great England all-rounder Ben Stokes also came to an end. Stokes, who had announced his retirement from one-day international cricket. Was playing his last one-day match but this match did not prove to be good for him. He got out after scoring 5 runs and bowled 5 overs. In which he could not take a single wicket while conceding 44 runs.