South Africa v England, 2nd T20I - Statistical Highlights

Hosts South Africa sealed the 2-match T20I series with a 9-wicket win in the 2nd T20I against England at Johannesburg. After a close win in 1st game at Cape Town, South Africa came back much stronger to beat England by a huge margin.

First, England collapsed to 171 from 157/3 in 16.2 overs. Later a slaughter from AB de Villiers along with Hashim Amla pushed England out of the game. After AB’s dismissal, captain Faf du Plessis finished the proceedings to register a 2-0 series win Here we look at all the stats and records recorded during the game.

0 – Fours hit by Eoin Morgan during his innings of 37. However, he struck 4 sixes. His innings is the 18th instance in T20Is where a batsman has hit 4 or more sixes without hitting a four.

3 – This is the 3rd time South Africa has chased down a target of 150+ inside 16 overs in T20Is. Overall, only 2 other instances of teams chasing 150+ in T20Is inside 16 overs have been recorded.

5 – South African innings is only the 5th instance in T20Is where both the openers scored 65+ in the same innings. This is the 2nd such instance for South Africa and both have come against England.

14 – Runs scored by England between losing their 4th and 10th wicket. They collapsed from 157/3 in 16.2 overs to 171 all out in 19.3 overs. Bangladesh vs Pakistan in 2008 and Zimbabwe vs New Zealand in 2010 lost 8 wickets for 16 runs in a T20I.

18.00 – Chris Jordan’s economy rate in today’s innings is the 2nd worst in a T20I innings among the bowlers who bowled at least 15 balls. Afghanistan’s Izatullah Dawlatzai had an economy rate of 18.66 in a World T20 game in 2012 vs England. He returned with figures of 3-0-56-2

21 – Balls taken by AB de Villiers to complete his fifty. This is the fastest T20I fifty by a South African overhauling his own record of fifty in 23 balls against Bangladesh in 2014.

32 – South Africa chased down England’s total of 171 with 32 balls to spare. This is the 2nd quickest a team chased down a target over 150 in T20I. Quickest is with 37 balls to spare by Netherlands vs Ireland in 2014, where they chased down a target of 190.

88 – Runs scored by South Africa in the first 6 overs. These are 2nd the most scored in mandatory powerplay in T20Is in a full 20 overs game. Netherlands scored 91 runs vs Ireland in 2014.

244.82 – AB de Villiers’ strike rate of 244.82 during his innings is the 3rd highest in a 70+ scored T20I innings. Highest strike rate in a 70+ knock T20I innings is 248.38 by Chris Gayle vs South Africa in 2015.

404 – Number of sixes hit against England in T20Is. England became only the 2nd team to be hit for 400 or more sixes in T20I Cricket. 443 sixes have been hit against New Zealand in T20Is.

616 – Number of sixes hit in T20Is in South Africa. It became the first country to record 600 or more sixes in T20I cricket.

717 – The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg became the 5th venue to record 700 or more sixes in International cricket.

2012 – South Africa last won a bilateral T20I series at home was in December 2012 against New Zealand. Since then they lost 3 bilateral series including 1 one-off against Pakistan and drew 2 other T20I series at home.