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SA VS ENG: South Africa Won 1st ODI In Three Match Series

South Africa won by 27 runs in its first match of the 3 ODI series against England

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South Africa won the match against England. England remained 27 runs short of the set target of 298. Sisanda Magala was the player of the match.

The match was played at Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein. South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first. Team RSA set a target of 298 at the loss of 7 wickets. Van der Dussen played an inning of 111 with the help of 6 fours and 1 six. The other key players were Miller and de Kock. They scored 53 and 37 runs, respectively. Sam Curran was the top wicket-taker with 3 against 35 runs.

Team England could not face the RSA bowling and tumbled at 271 runs. Jason Roy, Dawid Malan, and Jos Buttler played some good and aggressive cricket by hitting 113, 59, and 36 runs, respectively. The rest of the teams didn’t help with these knocks. Anrich Nortje bagged four wickets against 62 runs. Sisanda Magala also stopped the English batting by bagging 3 wickets against 46 runs.

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