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By Zaahier Adams 
December 1, 2020
CAPE TOWN – South Africa huffed and puffed, but England still brought down the Protea home with ease in Newlands Tuesday night to complete a historic 3-0 shutout. This is the first time the Proteas have failed to win a game in a T20I series at home.
As has often happened in recent months, it was Dawid Malan who played the most prominent role for the visitors. The world’s number one short-form hitter reached 99 not in a T20 masterpiece. There was location and timing, mixed with the brute force and innovation required in T20 cricket. It only took 47 balls, it contained 11 fours and five sixes
Malan would be the first to thank teammate Jos Buttler, not only for the vice-captain’s 67-run undefeated contribution to the 167-race world-record association for the second wicket, but also for agreeing to submit a review early in his innings. upstairs.
Referee Bongani Jele had awarded Lungi Ngidi the first ball of his spell that hit Malan on his pads adjacent to the stumps, but checking it showed that he was throwing off the stump of the leg.
Malan certainly benefited from the reprieve, punctuated by a rough direct run that ran toward the edge of Ngidi’s next ball.
The home team attack, barring the impressive George Linde once again, just didn’t have a plan on how they were going to contain any of the hitters.
Anrich Nortje tried to bounce Malan like he did when he hit the southpaw on the shoulder at Paarl last Sunday, but this time the batter was waiting with his back foot and he threw the sprinter hard towards the fence of the half-gate the first ball he got . faced.
Additionally, both hitters pounced on the plethora of overblown deliveries and drove powerfully across the ground.
Young Proteas sailor Lutho Sipamla, who hadn’t played since March, certainly got some tough lessons that night and will hopefully walk away and address some of his failures with bowling coach Charl Langeveldt in the future.
Likewise, the spin threat was nullified with Tabraiz Shamsi failing to pursue her best performance of her career at Boland Park, as the spinning dummy leaked 57 runs in her four overs.
Everything looked so different in the middle stage for the Proteas after Rassie van der Dussen (74 without 32 balls) and Faf du Plessis (52 without 37 balls) created a huge momentum towards the end of innings.
The duo were in rough form, scoring 84 runs from the final overs to propel the Proteas to a formidable-looking target.
However, Malan and Buttler quickly snuffed out any hopes the Proteas had of claiming a consolation victory with a winning pair that showed the home team just how far behind they were in T20 cricket.
Note: The “Cape Doctor“is the local name for the strong, often persistent, dry southeast wind that blows off the coast of South Africa from spring to late summer. It is known as the Cape Doctor because of the local belief that it cleanses South Africa. Cape of pollution and ‘pestilence’.
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