{"id":128157,"date":"2025-09-10T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128157\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:21:07","slug":"england-vs-south-africa-live-first-t20-cardiff-cricket-score-commentary-highlights-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128157\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs South Africa LIVE: First T20, Cardiff – cricket score, commentary, highlights & updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

International classics in Cardiffpublished at 18:36 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

18:36 BST<\/p>\n

England v South Africa (18:30 BST)<\/p>\n

\"LiamImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cardiff has hosted some memorable international clashes through the years since the first, a meeting between Australia and New Zealand at the 1999 World Cup.<\/p>\n

That encounter went the way of the Kiwis thanks to an unbeaten 80 by Roger Twose, although the Aussies got over that disappointment by lifting the trophy.<\/p>\n

Three Tests have been played in Cardiff with England beating Australia by 169 runs in 2015 and Sri Lanka by an innings and 14 runs in 2011.<\/p>\n

However, the first Test hosted by the ground was undoubtedly the most memorable with James Anderson and Monty Panesar helping England cling on to draw the Ashes opener in 2009.<\/p>\n

England have a formidable international T20 record at Sophia Gardens with nine wins from 10.<\/p>\n

Last year Liam Livingstone smashed a 47-ball 87 in the three-wicket win against Australia, with the victory secured with six balls remaining.<\/p>\n

Yet possibly the most celebrated international was a 50-over friendly in 2002 when Wales defeated England by eight wickets.<\/p>\n

The home side, featuring nine Glamorgan players, Somerset’s Steffan Jones and South Africa superstar Jacques Kallis, cruised to victory with nine and a half overs to spare.<\/p>\n

Captain Steve James scored an unbeaten 83 while Robert Croft claimed 2 for 36 from his 10 overs as an England side featuring Marcus Trescothick, Michael Vaughan, Graham Thorpe, Alec Stewart and Andrew Flintoff were left red-faced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International classics in Cardiffpublished at 18:36 British Summer Time 18:36 BST England v South Africa (18:30 BST) Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-128157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}