England vs South Africa Highlights, T20 World Cup 2021, Today’s Match at Sharjah: Kagiso Rabada Hattrick Helps South Africa End Campaign On A High

England might have failed to chase down the total, but they are the first semi-finalists from Group A and they also helped their Ashes rivals Australia to make it to top four. South Africa fought brilliantly, losing just one game in entire tournament. Chokers? Not really.

England managed to get just three runs came off the final over. Which means South Africa, who are out of the T20 World Cup, wins and ends campaign on a high.

A World Cup hattrick for Kagiso Rabda….Chris Jordan hits it straight to David Miller. Wow. So three victims: Morgan, Woakes and Jordan

Now Eoin Morgan finds the fielder which means Kagiso Rabada is on hattrick. The equation is 14 off 4…getting difficult now.

England needed 14 off 6 and Chris Woakes went after Rabada but found the fielder just at the edge of the boundary. Umpires are checking this one, but it seems he is out. It may not be a wicket, but it is a dot ball.

Back of the hand slower ball and Chris Woakes smashes it for six and the equation now down to 16 off 7 balls. Pretorious was looking good, but then he bowled a no-ball, in came free hit and South Africa lost the momentum.

A couple of boundaries off Morgan and England have reduced it to 25 off 12. Morgan might be struggling to middle it, but Liam Livingstone at the other end can be dangerous since he has been middling it really well.

South Africa might have been out, but they can bloody win this match to end campaign on a high. England need 35 off 18 and in the middle is skipper Eoin Morgan and Liam Livingstone.

Liam Livingstone literally knocked South Africa out of the park and then from the tournament. He races to 21 off 12! Four back-to-back sixes changed the game head on. South Africa might win this, but their journey ends in UAE.

Liam Livingstone has hit Kagiso Rabada for Six, Six, Six to knock South Africa out of the tournament. Game over South Africa, they are going home. That escalated quickly. This means Australia are in along with England as far as Semi finals are concerned.

Wow! Liam Livingstone has just launched Kagiso Rabada for a 112M Six. That’s outside the park. Rabada bowled a slow ball and he was dispatched.

Dwayne Pretorious was excellent against Sri Lanka where he not only varied his length but kept it really outside off stumps. Temba Bavuma took a leaf out of that book and tossed him the ball. Besides, that six off last ball it was a good over.

The run rate is rising and add to that the superb over from Anrich Nortje who gave away just five runs. Now England need 73 off last six overs. Can they do it?

Big big breakthrough. Moeen Ali was looking for the big shot as he had launched Shamsi for a six off the previous delivery and now he tries to get one more maximum and finds the fielder instead. Shamsi is on cloud nine.

That’s eight runs off that over…another great over from Tabraiz Shamsi who is done with his third over now..fairly quickly. All eyes on the approaching death overs where Nortje and Rabada will be waiting.

Dawid Malan has made sure that England fetch ten runs in the tenth over from Kagiso Rabada. Problem for England is SA’s best bowlers: Rabada, Nortje still have two overs remaining. Shamsi too has two overs left.

Another great over Shamsi…just 6 runs off that one. But England have reached 78/2. Still very much in the game and can easily knock South Africa out as they need to win by a margin of more than 60 runs.

And now Tabraiz Shamsi gets rid of another big fella. Yes, Jonny Bairstow has been trapped in front. Great bowling from the South African, it was fast, it was full, it was flat and crammed Jonny for room.

South Africa have done it! They have managed to remove dangerman Jos Buttler. It turned out to be very easy as Buttler scooped it straight to Bavuma and that reaction on Nortje’s face tells what a big breakthrough this one was.

England reaches 50 in just five overs! Solid batting as Moeen Ali dispatched T Maharaj for a boundary which also turned out to be a no ball. So England outpacing South Africa by a fair margin. They were 26/1.