England were overwhelmed by South Africa's Run Hill

South Africa thrash England Photo: AFP

Some might have hoped that the team was England. The world champions, who have given ODI cricket a new look, may even make 400 runs. But chasing South Africa's 399, England fell far out of the match before the first water break. In 12 overs to get 68 runs that 6 wickets!

Gus Atkinson and Mark Wood's batting at the end added some more runs. But the margin of loss is huge in the end. England lost to South Africa by a big margin of 229 runs after stopping for 170 runs at the Wankhede in Mumbai.

The current champions have lost three of the first four matches in this season. South Africa won three matches in the draw.

England lost their first wicket in the run chase In the third over, Jonny Bairstow flicked Lungi Ngidi and a rising ball was caught on the boundary by Recy von der Dusen. Losing the first wicket for 18 runs, England also lost Joe Root, David Malan and Ben Stokes in the next twenty runs. Marco Jansen brought Root back by David Miller and Malan caught by Quinton de Kock. And Stokes, who came to play for the first time in this season, caught Kagiso Rabada's ball in his own hands.

English batsmen were in procession Photo: AFP

Despite losing the fourth wicket on the first ball of the ninth over, Jos Buttler and Harry Brook focused on scoring runs. However, Gerald Koetzee picked up Butler on the first ball of the twelfth over and Brook on the third ball. A little later, when the right-arm pacer Adil Rashid was picked up, England's score became 84 runs for 7 wickets. In the ninth wicket, Atkins and Wood added 70 runs from 33 balls to reduce the English deficit. England's innings stopped at 170 runs as injured Reece Topley did not bat.

Earlier, South Africa completed the initial task of winning in the first half of the match. The Proteas built a mountain of 399 runs with the explosive batting of Heinrich Klaasen (109) and Marco Jansen (75) after Riza Hendricks (85), Recy von der Dussen (60).

Hendricks scored 85 off 75 balls Photo: AFP

However, the start of the Proteas' innings was not as expected. De Kock started the World Cup brilliantly by scoring two centuries in three matches. But after hitting a boundary on the first ball against England, de Kock (4) was cut behind when he hit the second ball with a swing mix.
However, despite the departure of the in-form opener at the start, the Proteas' power play did not deteriorate. Dusen and Hendricks put on 59 runs in the power play after settling down after playing a bit tentatively at the start.
The pair of the two continued to move past fifty towards century. On the other hand, the wait for the wicket increases for the English. That wait ended courtesy of Adil Rashid in the 20th over. Dusen got out and returned with a catch to Jonny Bairstow while sweeping the slog with the flight mixed up. South Africa's number three batsman got out after scoring 60 runs off 61 balls and 8 fours.

Root also failed today: AFP

Hendricks was also settled and out. Now bowler Rashid. Rashid bowled this Protea opener, who was on the way to a century after a half-century, with a great googly in the 26th over. Hendricks scored 85 runs off 75 balls, with 9 fours and 3 sixes in the innings at a strike rate of 113.
South Africa were then 243 for 5 in 36.3 overs. The rest of the South African innings was all about Klaassen and Marco Jansen. The duo added 151 runs off 77 balls in a devastating batting partnership for the sixth wicket.
Classen scored a century off 61 balls. Klaassen scored 109 runs off 67 balls before being dismissed by Gus Atkinson in the last over of the innings. A brilliant innings of 162 strike rate had 12 fours and 4 sixes. His partner Jansen scored a half-century off 35 balls.
But at the end of his innings he was unbeaten on 75 off 42 balls. There were 3 fours and 6 sixes in his innings. Topley took maximum 3 wickets for England, Atkinson and Rashid took 2 wickets each.

Despite losing two batsmen, Klaasen and Aiden Markram did not let South Africa's run rate drop. The two added 69 runs off 58 balls. The pair broke when Markram was caught at mid-wicket while flicking Topley's ball. Markram scored 42 runs off 44 balls before getting out. David Miller (5) did not survive the basket.