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Cape Town - South Africa’s under-19 squad drew first blood when they beat their English counterparts by four wickets in the first match of the England youth ODI Series in Edgebaston on Saturday. The match had an almost three hour late start because of consistent rainfall, and was reduced to 32 overs per side via the Duckworth/Lewis method.
South Africa’s captain, Keaton Jennings won the toss and elected to field first in the bleak conditions. It took 12 overs, which were at times interrupted by rainfall, for South Africa to claim their first wicket. Prenelan Subrayen was a star with the ball, taking what would be his first of three wickets in the game and dispatched Sam Kelsall back to the changeroom for 17 runs.
Adam Rossington followed Kelsall three overs later and Sam Wood departed in the 24th over. England’s batting hope was firmly pinned on opening batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond, who scored 86 off 94 balls to help bat England to a score of 148/4 before he was caught by Subrayen off the bowling of left-arm spinner Lesiba Ngoepe.
England continued to toil to add as many runs to the scoreboard as they could and finished their innings with a competitive 187/7.
South Africa went in to bat determined to make a statement. The opening partnership of Jennings and Quinton de Kock produced 29 runs in 17 balls, before Jennings was caught behind off the bowling of Jamie Overton. De Kock continued his good form and scored 40 from 28 balls before he was bowled out by Tom Knight.
The batsmen kept the scoreboard ticking, each of them adding much needed runs, with the 37-run seventh wicket partnership between Calvin Savage (12) and Regardt Verster (28) doing the most damage and ending the game for England.
South Africa won the match by four wickets with seven balls to spare.
This is a good confidence booster for the second ODI in Northampton on Monday, 18 July 2011.
Brief scores:
South Africa Under-19 189 for 6 (de Kock 40, Verster 28*, Knight 3-27) beat England Under-19 187 for 7 (Bell-Drummond 86, Subrayen 3-32) by four wickets (D/L method)
South Africa’s captain, Keaton Jennings won the toss and elected to field first in the bleak conditions. It took 12 overs, which were at times interrupted by rainfall, for South Africa to claim their first wicket. Prenelan Subrayen was a star with the ball, taking what would be his first of three wickets in the game and dispatched Sam Kelsall back to the changeroom for 17 runs.
Adam Rossington followed Kelsall three overs later and Sam Wood departed in the 24th over. England’s batting hope was firmly pinned on opening batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond, who scored 86 off 94 balls to help bat England to a score of 148/4 before he was caught by Subrayen off the bowling of left-arm spinner Lesiba Ngoepe.
England continued to toil to add as many runs to the scoreboard as they could and finished their innings with a competitive 187/7.
South Africa went in to bat determined to make a statement. The opening partnership of Jennings and Quinton de Kock produced 29 runs in 17 balls, before Jennings was caught behind off the bowling of Jamie Overton. De Kock continued his good form and scored 40 from 28 balls before he was bowled out by Tom Knight.
The batsmen kept the scoreboard ticking, each of them adding much needed runs, with the 37-run seventh wicket partnership between Calvin Savage (12) and Regardt Verster (28) doing the most damage and ending the game for England.
South Africa won the match by four wickets with seven balls to spare.
This is a good confidence booster for the second ODI in Northampton on Monday, 18 July 2011.
Brief scores:
South Africa Under-19 189 for 6 (de Kock 40, Verster 28*, Knight 3-27) beat England Under-19 187 for 7 (Bell-Drummond 86, Subrayen 3-32) by four wickets (D/L method)
