While the Boy Wonder was out and about doing a thing today, he spotted some SA vs England cricket action.
A quick look at the internet determined that this was the SA U19s vs the England U19s, playing their first 45 over ODI of a 3 match series.
And then I forgot all about it.
But the cricinfo page was still open when I came back to my laptop after horseriding (not me), this evening. And it turns out that England won – somewhat convincingly – bowling SA out for 87 and then knocking off the required total with [ahem] 189 balls to spare.
Eina fok!
But you’ll notice that they still “only” won by 5 wickets. That’s because, of the 18 players who batted, only 4 of them* (2 from each side) made it into double figures. Wow.
Cricket matches are clearly going to look very different – apparently mainly much shorter – in the near future.
If you’re in or around Cape Town on Sunday, you can watch the second ODI at WPCC.
* one of them being Archie Vaughan, debutant and captain of the England side, Sheffield born, and son of ex-England captain Michael Vaughan.