Bairstow And Moeen Provide Fireworks As England Sink South Africa In First T20 England V South Africa 2022
Fully 120 of England’s 234 runs came from sixes, their 20 maximums more than they had ever scored before, or South Africa had conceded. With the tourists further dispirited by a series of failures in the field – even discounting the one Heinrich Klaasen lost in its flight and allowed to float over his head, Bairstow was dropped three times – their run chase seemed destined to be forlorn. But for long periods it was also quite a lot of fun, with Reeza Hendricks scoring a half-century off 28 balls – positively pedestrian in this company – and Stubbs, who instantly found a beautiful seam of form and kept coming up with diamonds, facing the same number of balls and scoring 72....