Well, that's a turn up for the books, England win by 20 runs. I thought 275 was 35-40 odd short, but it tuns out I was wrong. Harmison: 10-1-43-2 and KP (90* & 5-0-2-22) & Flintoff (78 & 9.4-1-46-2) sharing a partnership of 158. That's the wonderful thing about cricket, very unpredictable and nothing's certain until the last ball's played.
Not so sure that England won it so much as SA threw it away, although the England bowling attack kept it tight and on target. At the 100 mark, SA were well ahead of the required rate, at one point when it was raining if they'd gone off they'd have won due to Duckworth Lewis rules. Subsequently the wickets were taken and they slumped.
Still, the squad looks together, Prior's done well behind the stumps and got a reasonable number of runs, KP hasn't been affected by the pressures of captaincy yet and Flintoff's back on form. A good results. woohoo!
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