South Africa vs England 1st Test at Durban, 26 Dec, 2015

Toss: South Africa, who chose to bowl first
England 303/10 (100.1)  &  326/10 (102.1)
South Africa 214/10 (81.4)  &  174/10 (71)
England won by 241 runs
Man of the Match: Moeen Ali
  • JP Duminy 26 * (59)

Over 8.1Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to D Elgar, gets forward and defends it towards covers.No runs

Over 8.2Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to D Elgar, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.One leg bye

Over 8.3Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to Stiaan van Zyl, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 8.4Ben Stokes bowls pitched up delivery to Stiaan van Zyl, gets forward and drives it straight down the groundBoundary!

Over 8.5Ben Stokes bowls short of length delivery to Stiaan van Zyl, goes back and cuts it away towards the thirdman region.Boundary!

Over 8.6Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to Stiaan van Zyl, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 10.1Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to D Elgar, gets forward and defends it towards the bowler.No runs

Over 10.2Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to D Elgar, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 10.3Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to D Elgar, gets forward and defends it towards mid on.No runs

Over 10.4Ben Stokes bowls pitched up delivery to D Elgar, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it past the fielder at point.Three runs

Over 10.5Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to Stiaan van Zyl, and that’s the end of his stay in the middle, clean bowled! .Bowled him!

Over 10.6Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to HM Amla, gets forward and defends it towards point.No runs

Over 12.1Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to HM Amla, gets forward and defends it towards point.No runs

Over 12.2Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to HM Amla, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 12.3Ben Stokes bowls short of length delivery to HM Amla, opens up on the backfoot to defend that infront of middle.No runs

Over 12.4Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to HM Amla, opens up on the backfoot to defend that towards the legside.No runs

Over 12.5Ben Stokes bowls pitched up delivery to HM Amla, lofts it in the air over covers.Boundary!

Over 12.6Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to HM Amla, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 28.1Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to AB de Villiers, gets beaten on the frontfoot by that good delivery.No runs

Over 28.2Ben Stokes bowls short of length delivery to AB de Villiers, pulls it through squareleg.Two runs

Over 28.3Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to AB de Villiers, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 28.4Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to AB de Villiers, flicks it off his pads towards the backward squareleg regionSingle

Over 28.5Ben Stokes bowls pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, gets beaten on the frontfoot by that good delivery.No runs

Over 28.6Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 30.1Ben Stokes bowls short of length delivery to AB de Villiers, opens up on the backfoot to defend that infront of middle.No runs

Over 30.2Ben Stokes bowls short of length delivery to AB de Villiers, opens up on the backfoot to defend that towards the legside.Single

Over 30.3Ben Stokes bowls pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.No runs

Over 30.4Ben Stokes bowls pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, gets forward and drives it straight to mid onNo runs

Over 30.5Ben Stokes bowls short and wide to Faf du Plessis, goes back and cuts it away towards the thirdman region.Boundary!

Over 30.6Ben Stokes bowls good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, moves back and across to defend that towards covers.No runs

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