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MAGIC MAL

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Vincent
Published date02 December 2020
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
They already have the No.1 batsman - and yet again Dawid Malan was at the heart of their run chase with 99 not out.

Jos Buttler, arguably England's greatest white-ball batsman, stroked 67 not out in a ninewicket win in Cape Town.

The pair put on an unbeaten 167, a new second-wicket record for T20 internationals.

Even though South Africa managed to take the attack to Jofra Archer for the first time and put up an imposing 192, Eoin Morgan's men served notice they are going to be hard to knock off their perch.

Malan and Buttler ravenously hunted down the target. Ten times the pair connected with the ball hard enough to send it over the boundary, and with every strain of the neck watching the ball soar, South African heads then fell a little lower.

By the time the two teams walked off with a whopping 14 balls to spare, the gulf between the sides was a chasm, especially with South Africa missing the injured Kagiso Rabada.

Whether he would have prevented England's batsmen from feasting as they did who knows, with the pitch getting better and better as the game wore on and with Buttler and Malan in redhot form, even if the latter's maths needs some work.

"I'm very happy with that," said Malan. "I knew there was five left but I didn't know how it would go down if I turned down the run to win the...

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