Match 8: South Africa vs England, Champions Trophy 2009

England is in Semi-finals. What a turn back for English team. After loosing 6-1 ODI series to Australia in England just a week ago, they came back strongly. BTW Home team, South Africa is now out of the Champions Trophy. The Last match of the group B, New Zealand vs England will have no effect on South Africa, but yes, if New Zealand loose the Last match then Sri Lanka have fair chance to go in Semi's with better run rate.
Now lets talk about this match, Match 8, England batting first put up huge total of 323 runs with the help of  brilliant Half centuries by OA Shah, PD Collingwood, EJG Morgan. WD Parnell took 3 wickts of England. Captan GC Smith brilliant 141 runs would also not saved South Africa. As a result South Africa lost the match by 22 runs at the end. JM Anderson & SCJ Broad took 3 wickets each.

England innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
AJ Strauss	c †Boucher b Parnell	25	51	37	5	0	67.56
	12.1 fantastic reflexes from Boucher, stunning catch to dismiss Strauss, a wide delivery outside off, Strauss gets a thick edge, Boucher throws himself to his left to pluck that one, two quick wickets for South Africa 59/2
JL Denly	c Duminy b Kallis	21	41	25	3	0	84.00
	9.6 Kallis gets the breakthrough, Denly is gone, not exactly a wicket-taking ball, back of a length on the pads, Denly swings it towards square leg, looked like a good shot when the ball left the bat, but Denly manages to pick out Duminy in the deep 48/1
OA Shah	c †Boucher b Botha	98	108	89	5	6	110.11
	38.2 oh, that's cruel for Shah, a fantastic innings comes to an end, he looked to dink a legstump ball towards square leg, inside-edges onto his pad, ball pops up and gives Boucher an easy catch 222/3
PD Collingwood	b Parnell	82	122	94	6	1	87.23
	43.1 Parnell continues to pick up the wickets, a full and wide delivery, Collingwood looks to carve it through the off side, gets an inside edge, the ball slams into middle and leg stump 262/4
EJG Morgan	c Smith b Steyn	67	54	34	4	5	197.05
	49.2 superb catch from Smith ends Morgan's brilliant innings, Steyn kept it full, Morgan backed away and powered it towards extra cover, Smith dives to his right to take a low catch 320/8
LJ Wright	run out (Parnell)	8	12	7	1	0	114.28
	45.6 Parnell to Morgan, Wright is run-out, tough luck, a low full toss from Parnell, punched back towards the bowler, who gets a boot on it and deflects it onto the stumps, catchng Wright out of the crease 291/5
RS Bopara	c Morkel b Botha	1	3	2	0	0	50.00
	46.4 Bopara is gone, length ball outside off, Bopara looks to heave that over midwicket, a top edge sends the ball swirling towards Albie Morkel who hangs on to it 295/6
SCJ Broad	b Parnell	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
	47.2 Parnell gets rid of Broad with a ripper of a delivery, inswinging yorker homes in on the base of legstump, better batsmen than Broad would have had trouble keeping that out 297/7
GP Swann	not out	8	12	9	1	0	88.88
JM Anderson	not out	2	3	2	0	0	100.00
Extras	(b 1, lb 4, w 5, nb 1)	11
Total	(8 wickets; 50 overs)	323	(6.46 runs per over)

South Africa innings (target: 324 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
GC Smith	c Shah b Broad	141	216	134	16	0	105.22
	46.5 this could be the end for South Africa, Smith's heroic innings comes to an end, Smith backed away and looked to smash that to midwicket, top edges it to mid-on, the crowd gives Smith a standing ovation 274/9
HH Gibbs	c Wright b Anderson	22	30	26	3	1	84.61
	6.6 Gibbs holes out to mid-on, gets on the backfoot to pull that ball, bottom hand comes off the bat as he plays that, no power behind the shot and it lobs to mid-on 42/1
JH Kallis	c Denly b Broad	12	21	16	1	0	75.00
	11.5 Denly takes the catch to dismiss Kallis, who perishes to a similar shot as Denly himself, swung around to deep square leg, Kallis needed better placement, that's a big blow 64/2
AB de Villiers	c Denly b Collingwood	36	58	41	4	0	87.80
	25.5 de Villiers picks out Denly at midwicket, a length delivery, de Villiers hoicks it off the back foot, not enough power to clear the short boundary, and the waiting Denly holds on to a simple catch 142/3
JP Duminy	b Swann	24	47	33	1	0	72.72
	36.6 quicker arm ball takes out Duminy, Duminy goes for the cut, bottom edges it from offstump to the base of legstump 206/4
MV Boucher	b Anderson	8	16	10	1	0	80.00
	40.1 he gets rid of Boucher first ball! a shortish ball from Anderson, Boucher goes for the pull, misses and the ball rips out offstump 230/5
JA Morkel	run out (†Morgan)	17	22	14	1	1	121.42
	44.1 Broad to Smith, length ball outside off, Smith looks to shovel it from outside off, it goes through to the keeper, stand-in keeper Morgan's great day continues as he throws down the stumps, South Africa attempted a suicidal run, Morkel is caught short, and that could be the end of the road for South Africa 255/6
J Botha	c Onions b Broad	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
	44.3 Botha is gone, and South Africa are heading for the exit door, back of length ball, Botha looks to smack it to the leg side, mishits it and it ends as a simple catch at mid-off 255/7
RE van der Merwe	b Anderson	0	4	2	0	0	0.00
	45.2 bowled him! a full ball, van der Merwe goes for the booming drive, he misses , Anderson knocks back offstump, top bowling this 263/8
WD Parnell	not out	10	23	10	0	0	100.00
DW Steyn	not out	17	15	13	2	0	130.76
Extras	(lb 8, w 5, nb 1)	14
Total	(9 wickets; 50 overs)	301	(6.02 runs per over)

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