Old Trafford, Manchester is the venue for the second ODI between England and South Africa on Friday and the Proteas are 1-0 up in the series with two to play
The series opener was staged at Chester le Street on Tuesday, England were short price favourites at around 5/10 but South Africa ran out comfortable winners by a 62 run margin.
The Proteas won the toss and opted to bat first and they posted a more than healthy 333/5. Rassie van der Dussen, batting at 3, top scored with 134, opening bat Janneman Malan made 57 and Aiden Markram made 77. Surprisingly for a big total there were no sixes in the entire innings.
England's reply got off to a solid start with Roy (43) and Bairstow (63) posting a century partnership. Joe Root top scored with 86 but outside of the top 3 in the batting order England fell away and from 142/2 at one stage the innings closed on 271 all out. Nortje claimed 4 wickets and there were 2 a piece for Shamsi and Markram. Skipper Maharaj was economical with figures of 1/42.
This was how the sides lined up on Tuesday and note Ben Stokes has now retired from ODI cricket.
England: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (c & wk), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Brydon Carse, Matty Potts
South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Janneman Malan, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Keshav Maharaj (c), Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Dwaine Pretorius
Head to Head
Overall the teams have met 64 times with England winning 28 to South Africa's 31 with 1 tie and 4 no results
Old Trafford, Manchester
Over the course of the last decade England have played 11 ODI's in Manchester, winning 6 and losing 5.
The most recent ODI came just last week when India beat England by 5 wickets to claim a 2-1 series win. England were all out for 259 (Buttler 60) and India chased it down in 42.1 overs.
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The Betting - 2nd ODI
At the time of writing England are 6/10 to win the match and South Africa are 13/10
Bairstow and Root are both trading at 3/1 to top score for England and van der Dussen, de Kock and Markram are all the same price to do likewise for South
Africa
England are 4/6 to hit the most sixes and South Africa are 13/8 with a tie at 13/2.
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
The Verdict
England have been more miss than hit in white ball cricket over the course of the last month or so but I was still surprised to see the Proteas win the first ODI in such a comfortable fashion.
I will first look to the Player Performance market where points are awarded as follows:
Total Points. Run = 1pt. Catch = 10pts. Wicket = 20pts. Stumping = 25pts
Jos Buttler's current quote of over 43.5 looks beatable to me.
With the pressure on to square the series I can see one of the England batsman scoring big and I like the 6/4 about an England centurion.
Bets: Player Performance, Jos Buttler, over 43.5 pts at 17/20
Century scored by England? Yes at 6/4.
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Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
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