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South Africa vs England Scorecard, 3rd Test, England vs South Africa 2022
Result · Sep 08 2022, Thu - 03:30 PM (IST)
SOUTH AFRICA118, 169
ENGLAND158, 130/1
England won by 9 wickets
CRR:5.78
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Player Of The Series
Match Info
| Series: | South Africa in England 2022 |
| Date: | Sep 08 2022, Thu - 03:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | England |
| City: | London |
| Venue: | Kia Oval |
| Toss: | England won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| England Playing XI: | Alex Lees, Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Jack Leach, James Anderson |
| South Africa Playing XI: | Dean Elgar (c), Sarel Erwee, Keegan Petersen, Ryan Rickelton, Khaya Zondo, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje |
- England have a chance to register their fourth consecutive multigame bilateral men’s Test series win against South Africa, it will be the third time in the history of this fixture that England have won as many consecutive multigame bilateral men’s Test series against the Proteas; South Africa last won such a series in July 2012.
- England have lost just one of their last 15 multigame bilateral men’s Test series at home, it was against New Zealand in June 2021(W9 D5).
- England have won four of their last five men’s Test matches against South Africa, their sole loss coming during the first match of this series (innings & 12 runs); the Proteas have just one win from their 15 matches against England at the Kennington Oval, London (D7 L7).
- England have won five of their last six men’s Test matches (L1), their only loss was against South Africa on 17 August 2022; they had won just one of their 17 Test matches prior to this run in the format (D5 L11), against India on 25 August 2021.
- South Africa have a bowling strike rate of 47 in men’s Test since the beginning of 2020, the best rate amongst all teams; England are fourth in this category with a rate of 60.
- Since the beginning of 2022, England have a catch success rate of 80% in men’s Test having dropped just 34 of their 167 chances; only West Indies have a better such rate than England in that time (83%).
- Jack Leach needs five more for 100 wickets in men’s Test for England, he will become the 49th player to achieve this feat for his country; Leach has taken five or more wickets in a match nine times in his Test career.
- Lungi Ngidi needs one more for 50 wickets for South Africa in Test cricket, he will become the 36th player to achieve this feat for the Proteas; he has managed at least one wicket in five of his last six Test innings.
- Dean Elgar needs 66 to score 5,000 runs for South Africa in Tests, in doing so he will become the 8th player to achieve this feat for the Proteas; he has managed to score more runs against England than any other country in the format (889).
- Since the beginning of 2020, Joe Root has scored 3,122 runs in Test cricket, the only player to score more than 2,000 runs during that time; he averages 54.8 during this period, the best of any player who has featured in minimum of 25 innings.