England vs South Africa, T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: SA beat ENG by 7 runs in thrilling Super 8 clash

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: South Africa exploited the powerplay, England couldn't. And well, it wasn't South Africa but Quinton de Kock really who scored all those runs in the powerplay, Reeza Hendricks was struggling to get anything.

“It (the pitch) definitely doesn't play the same as night games. It's completely a different surface compared to the night games. There was a little bit of extra bounce early on. I try to carry on confidence game by game. We bowled really well in the powerplay, and we controlled it very nicely. To be able to defend 160 on a decent wicket is a good effort from us.”

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: And breath. That was some game and South Africa would feel very good about themselves indeed with this one. They remain unbeaten in the 2024 T20 World Cup, they have won quite a few close ones but this will be doubly satisfying. Not only did they manage to defend a target of 164 against one of the most potent T20 batting lineups in the world, they did it despite having to stave off a late fightback and a momentary collective brain scramble with regards to their sudden tactical shift to try and bowl yorkers to Brook and Livingstone.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Sam Curran is still out there. Archer gets off strike first ball, then Nortje goes full outside leg stump, Curran helps it along its way to fine leg for a four.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Oh the captain comes clutch! Brook tries to go big first ball, skies it. Markram is sprinting full tilt from mid-on as the ball comes at him over his shoulders, dives forward and completes a stunner of a catch. Nortje now has a new batter to bowl to.

Brook c Markram b Nortje 53 (37)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 150/6 in 19.1 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Brook on strike, Nortje is the bowler. England need 14 to win off the last over. Here we go!

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Two runs off the second ball of the 19th and Brook moves to 51 in 33 balls. This match is on a knife's edge now. England need just 19 to win from 10 but South Africa would know that one more wicket here would put them well ahead.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 145/5 in 18.2 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Rabada roars and Livingstone has to walk. The partnership between him and Brook ends on 78 off 42. Livingstone hits the second ball of the 18th straight to deep backward square leg.

Livingstone c Stubbs b Rabada 33 (17)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 139/5 in 17.2 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Baartman has been sent everywhere in this over and this match has turned on its head. His first ball is a wide full toss, Livingstone slaps it to deep cover flat. It takes a bounce just in front of the boundary sponge and so it is a four. The second is also a full toss and Livingstone smashes that through cover for another four. Baartman just can't stop bowling full tosses, is third is another one and this time it goes for a six over square leg. His fourth is a full toss as well and Livingstone can only toe-end it away to midwicket to run two. Finally Baartman lands the fifth one on length, the batters run a single. Another full toss comes and Brook hits it down the ground for another four. Brook on 47 off 30, Livingstone on 33 off 15.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 139/4 in 17 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Now then, what are we seeing here? Harry Brook is playing a heck of an innings. England need 46 to win from 24, required rate of 11.50 and their current run rate has gone up to 7.37. Brook smashes the first ball of the over back over the bowler Nortje's head for a four. The second is sent careening through cover for another four. Then five runs off the rest of the over. Brook on 43 off 29, Livingstone on 16 off 10.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 118/4 in 16 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Livingstone and Brook lay into Rabada in this over and at long last, England have a good one. Livingstone lifts the first ball over square leg for a six. A single off the next and two off the third after which Brook flashes the wide fourth delivery through backward point for a four. Brook then scoops the fifth ball over the wicketkeeper for another four and then retains strike with a single. He is on 33 off 25, Livingstone on 14 off eight. England need 59 to win from 30.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 105/4 in 15 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Keshav Maharaj bowls out in the 13th. He finishes with figures of 2/25. Two runs for Brook off the first ball. The third is flat and full and Brook sweeps hard behind square leg for a four. Two more runs off the fifth, although Brook was a gonner for that second run had Klaasen managed to find the stumps at the keeper's end with the direct hit. Brook stays on strike with a single off the last ball. He is on 17 off as many, Liam Livingstone at the other end on six off four.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 81/4 in 13 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Baartman comes in to bowl the 11th and strikes straightaway Baartman's second delivery is shortish, Moeen pulls it straight to Keshav Maharaj at deep midwicket. Moeen tried to go against the wind and perished.

Moeen Ali c Maharaj b Baartman 9 (10)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 61/4 in 10.2 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Just four runs off the 10th for which Markram brings himself on. England's run rate has dropped to exactly 6 an over and their required run rate has climbed to 10.40. They need 104 to win off the last 10. Harry Brook is out there on three off four, Moeen Ali on nine off nine.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 60/3 in 10 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: The pressure tells. Maharaj sees Buttler winding up for an almighty heave and slows the fourth ball down. The England captain skies it to Klaasen at deep midwicket who makes no mistake this time. South Africa are bossing this.

Buttler c Klaasen b Maharaj 17 (20)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 54/3 in 8.4 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Three singles and two doubles in that over from Nortje. England just not being able to find the boundary here. Their required run rate is 9.50, they are going at 6.25 at the moment. They need 114 to win off 72 balls.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 50/2 in 8 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Keshav Maharaj sends back Jonny Bairstow. Well Nortje has made amends for Klaasen's mistake. Bairstow has been trying to get a big shot under his belt, Maharaj sees that tosses up the fifth ball slow and wide. Bairstow cuts and Nortje dives to his right at backward point and takes the catch.

Bairstow c Nortje b Maharaj 16 (20)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 43/2 in 6.5 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Look away South Africa, this is an ugly one, uglier than the four Bairstow got in the previous over. First ball of the fourth by Rabada, tries to go inside out and hits it to deep third where Klaasen runs in to take it. The ball pops out of his hands and the batters run a single. The easiest of catches put down. Buttler takes another single in that over and so just two from it but how costly will that drop prove, only time will tell. Buttler on four off seven, Bairstow on 10 off as many.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 28/1 in 4 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Three runs off the first three balls and then Jansen nails a yorker fifth ball, only for it to be a no ball! Free hit delivery comes with Bairstow facing up, it is a low full toss, Bairstow gets into an almighty mess trying to jam his bat down, it takes an inside edge and runs behind to the fine leg boundary. Single to end the over.

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 26/1 in 3 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: What a big moment that is in this game. Salt goes for an aerial drive fifth ball of the second, Hendricks goes flying to his left at covers and takes it one-handed. Let's see how England recovers from this one.

Salt c Hendricks b Rabada 11 (8)

ENG vs SA Live Score: England 15/1 in 1.5 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Jansen starts with two dots. The first ball was on Salt's hips and Kagiso Rabada almost took an extraordinary catch at leg gully. The second one is full and Salt misses his wild swing. The third is short and Salt absolutely pulverises that to the square leg fence. two singles off the last two balls and that makes it eight runs off the first over.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Here is Phil Salt and he will face Marco Jansen. Captain Jos Buttler at the non-striker's end. England need to chase down 164.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Is this a good surface or a sluggish one? That is what the commentators were wondering halfway through this innings as they saw that everybody apart from Quinton de Kock struggled to score runs. David Miller also got close to getting to a half-century later on but England have well and truly put South Africa through the ringer here. If the pitch is as good as the commentators reckoned before this innings, this should be a real uphill task for South Africa to defend this.

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Jofra Archer has got three wickets thus far today, all three of them thanks to some excellent catches. Archer pitches up the second delivery of the over to Marco Jansen whio slices it. Curran runs back as the ball comes over his shoulder and dives to take the catch.

Jansen c Curran b Archer 0 (1)

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 155/5 in 19.2 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Miller launches the first ball of the last over bowled by Archer down the ground. Brook runs in from long-off and dives to complete the catch.

Miller c Brook b Archer 43 (28)

ENG vs SA Live Score: SA 155/5 in 19.1 overs

England vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024, ENG vs SA: Stubbs yet to find his timing but Miller is finding the boundary more consistently. Archer bowls his third over in the 18th, Stubbs clips the second ball to midwicket for a single. Then Archer goes round the wicket to Miller, sends in the third ball full and straight, the batter sends that over deep backward square leg for a six. A single off the fifth ball and that is that.

ENG vs SA Live Score: South Africa 141/4 in 18 overs