No. 1-ranked ODI side were just short of 2 runs while england managed to seal the 3 match ODI series by 2-0. Visitors winning the toss and elected to field first did not made any major impact on englands batting lineup. England managed to score 330 playing full 50 overs with a top score of 101 off 79 balls by Ben Stokes. Stokes made South Africa pay dearly for dropping him off both the first and second balls he faced after the allrounder had been passed fit to play following a knee injury.

Butler showed his experience playing at number 6 scoring 65 off just 53 which came late in the englands innings. Moeen Ali slogged every ball along with butler in his powerful 33 just facing 19 deliveries. South Africa's Rabada seem to be the most economical from his side with 10-0-50-2 where Pretorius,Maharaj,Phehlukwayo shared one wicket each.

In reply, David Miller looked to have guided South Africa to the brink of victory with 71 off 51, a six and a four off the first two balls of the penultimate over leaving them needing 10 from 10. But Jake Ball conceded just three from the next four deliveries before Mark Wood defended seven off a nerveless final over to seal a two-run win and extend England's winning run to eight ODIs in a row,

With AB de Villiersalso contributing a half-century and De Kock by his impressive 98(103), South Africa were on course to pull off what would have been comfortably the highest successful chase on the ground.Wood defended a target of seven off six balls in the last over. Two singles were followed by a dot ball, a single and another dot ball.Suddenly, South Africa needed four off the last ball and Morris could not made it.

Summary:

England330 for 5 (Stokes 101, Buttler 65*, Morgan 45)

beat

South Africa 328 for 5 (de Kock 98, Miller 71*, de Villiers 52)

by two runs.