END OF OVER:50 | 11 Runs | ENG: 311/8 | RR: 6.22
- Liam Plunkett9 (6b)
- Jofra Archer7 (3b)
- Kagiso Rabada10-0-66-2
- Lungi Ngidi10-0-66-3
2.15pm: There's your World Cup right there. Is that a good score? Well, it's certainly not a bad score, though we've become accustomed to England supersizing their totals in recent years. A target of 312 won't daunt South Africa, by any means, but there's a little bit more pressure on during tournament play. England's boombastic batting got slightly clogged up - perhaps the pitch is a tad slower than hoped for? - and the bowling will now face a test. It'll be Miller to pick things up when we resume in half an hour, and until then, we have the Match Day team for your viewing pleasure.
This is from Srinath: Fiver lower totals at the Oval since 2015. Only one of them has been defended successfully.
Luc has a prediction of his own: "Archer to get a hat trick, and SA to be all out for under 200"
"Just 3 sixes in England innings." SA have been hard to put away, Athar Ali
Jofra Archer walks out for his first bat in an England shirt. Rabada to bowl the final over
END OF OVER:49 | 6 Runs 1 Wkt | ENG: 300/8 | RR: 6.12
- Liam Plunkett5 (3b)
- Lungi Ngidi10-0-66-3
- Kagiso Rabada9-0-55-2
Here's Matt: "I'm calling it now already. Markram is going to take this game from England with an epic century!"
BA Stokes c Amla b Ngidi 89 (132m 79b 9x4 0x6) SR: 112.65