South Africa lose by 342 runs against England and set the record of…

England team beats South Africa with a very big margin of 342 runs and achieved the biggest win in ODI history. England team dismissed the tourists for just 72 runs. Jofra Archer’s excellent bowling and Jacob Bethell’s maiden hundred helped team to registered a memorable performance.

While chasing the big total of 415 runs. South African putting up a fight. However, they failed to make it happened and collapsed out in just 20.5 overs at Southampton. This defeat set a new record for the biggest winning margin in ODI history while batting first, beating the previous record of India’s 317-run win over Sri Lanka in 2023.

South African skipper Temba Bavuma reacted to their team’s loss. “It’s a downer. We were just poor to be honest, in all departments,” he said. Temba was unable to bat due to injury.

“Fielding is always about attitude, and looking at our fielding and some of the catches you could question where our attitude is. With the ball at some point something went horribly wrong”. “Their bowlers really put us under pressure. We didn’t have a chance. To sum it up – a poor game of cricket from us.” he added.

England captain Harry Brook also reacted to the great performance and praised the team and players ”The ultimate performance. We were awesome with the bat, put them under pressure all the way through that innings and the bowling just speaks for itself, really,“

‘‘If we get in on good surfaces like that there’s no reason why we can’t get 400-450 each time we bat with our line-up. “It was awesome to see Jofra bowling rockets there. To have that in your side, it’s quite frightening.” he added.