Now I'm enjoying the first T20 match of England vs South Africa England lost 2 valuable wickets for 43 runs in 5 overs. Jason Roy managed to collect only 8 runs off 15 balls. I expected better batting from an experienced player like Roy. However, if England set a target of less than 170, we might see South Africa win the first match. South African batsmen are playing well now.
England was very determined to score a large number of runs. They have succeeded in doing that as well. The South Africans knew what they had to do, and they tried their hardest, but they were not able to reach that total. A reason for that is they had a really rough start. Otherwise, I thought the pitch was okay. If they were able to just play out the new ball and stay in the crease, they should have had a chance. They also needed some more meaningful partnership between the batsmen. They did score 193 and that is obviously not a bad score at all. But in the end, it was a one-sided match.