Proteas vs England 2nd T20 preview

The 2nd T20 of the 3-match series between England and Proteas is today at 6:30pm England time 7:30 pm SA time. The 1st T20 was a high-scoring affair, and a lot of positives came out of that match for both teams.

Proteas found a new Star in Tristan Stubbs who made the most of his opportunity and scored 72 of 28 hitting 8 6s and 24s at a strike rate of 257.13. Stubbs was fantastic with his hitting power and stroke-making. Reeza Hendricks was another positive will his innings of 57 of 33 with 9 4s and 1 6s at a strike rate of 172.72.

With the ball, it was Ngidi who was the star with 5-39 in his 4 overs. He, Rabada and Maharaj were good on a pitch that proved to be a run feast.

England will be happy with the way they batted especially Bairstow and Moeen Ali. With the ball Topley, Curran and Jordan were good especially Jordan closing the innings in the death overs.

Today's game will again be expected to be a high-scoring affair and expect few changes as its back-to-back matches

SA fans don't worry too much about the result as these matches help find the right options for the T20 world cup although it would be ideal for them to win the games as well.

Rossouw didn't have a great return, but I'm sure given more opportunity he will come good and return the selector's faith in him

My Predicted 11s for today's match

England 1: Jason Roy, 2: Jos Buttler, 3: Dawid Malan, 4: Jonny Bairstow, 5: Liam Livingstone, 6: Moeen Ali, 7: Sam Curran, 8: Chris Jordan, 9: David Willey, 10: Adil Rashid, 11: Richard Gleeson

Proteas: 1: Quinton De Kock, 2: Reeza Hendricks, 3: Aiden Markram, 4: Rilee Rossouw, 5: David Miller, 6: Tritan Stubbs, 7: Wyne Parnell, 8: Kagiso Rabada, 9: Keshav Maharaj, 10: Lungi Ngidi, 11: Tabraiz Shamsi/ Anrich Nortje

Writer Ebrahim Yusuf Omar

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