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England men · T20I · International series

England
v South Africa⁠

Result

England won by 28 runs

England
118/5
South Africa
90/5
Date
Wednesday 12 September 2012 · England in 2012
Venue
Birmingham
Competition
T20I · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

England v South Africa T20I scorecard

South Africa won the toss and chose to field

England · Innings 118/5 (11 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Craig Kieswetter b M Morkel 50 32 3 3 156.3
Michael Lumb b WD Parnell 5 4 1 0 125.0
Luke Wright c HM Amla b J Botha 6 10 0 0 60.0
Eoin Morgan c JL Ontong b J Botha 5 9 0 0 55.6
Jos Buttler not out 32* 10 2 3 320.0
Jonny Bairstow b M Morkel 4 2 1 0 200.0
Tim Bresnan not out 1* 1 0 0 100.0
Extras (b 0, lb 2, w 11, nb 2) 15
Total 11 overs 118/5

Did not bat: GP Swann, SCJ Broad, DR Briggs, JW Dernbach

Fall of wickets: 1-20 (MJ Lumb, 1.3 ov), 2-43 (LJ Wright, 4.5 ov), 3-64 (EJG Morgan, 8.2 ov), 4-112 (C Kieswetter, 10.2 ov), 5-116 (JM Bairstow, 10.4 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
M Morkel 2 0 28 2 14.00 2 0
WD Parnell 2 0 37 1 18.50 0 2
JA Morkel 1 0 5 0 5.00 0 0
RJ Peterson 2 0 16 0 8.00 2 0
J Botha 3 0 19 2 6.33 0 0
JH Kallis 1 0 11 0 11.00 0 0

South Africa · Innings 90/5 (11 overs)

South Africa · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
RE Levi b TT Bresnan 1 4 0 0 25.0
HM Amla c JM Bairstow b GP Swann 36 27 6 0 133.3
F du Plessis c EJG Morgan b DR Briggs 8 6 1 0 133.3
AB de Villiers c JM Bairstow b GP Swann 2 3 0 0 66.7
JA Morkel not out 17* 14 0 1 121.4
JL Ontong c EJG Morgan b TT Bresnan 10 7 0 1 142.9
JH Kallis not out 8* 5 0 0 160.0
Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 4, nb 0) 8
Total 11 overs 90/5

Did not bat: J Botha, RJ Peterson, WD Parnell, M Morkel

Fall of wickets: 1-9 (RE Levi, 1.3 ov), 2-34 (F du Plessis, 3.6 ov), 3-51 (AB de Villiers, 6.1 ov), 4-53 (HM Amla, 6.6 ov), 5-69 (JL Ontong, 9.2 ov)

South Africa · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Danny Briggs 2 0 16 1 8.00 0 0
Tim Bresnan 2 0 14 2 7.00 0 0
Stuart Broad 2 0 18 0 9.00 2 0
Graeme Swann 3 0 24 2 8.00 0 0
Jade Dernbach 2 0 14 0 7.00 2 0

Player of the match: Jos Buttler · Umpires: RJ Bailey, RK Illingworth · TV umpire: PJ Hartley · Match referee: AJ Pycroft. Scorecard from ball-by-ball data by Cricsheet (opens in a new tab), used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (opens in a new tab). Names as Cricsheet writes them; England players link to their profiles.

Men's senior internationals · Newest first

The 5 meetings before this one

2009 – 2012

T20Is since 2007

England v South Africa stats

Full head-to-head

Meetings28In our results database
England wins13England perspective
Draws, ties & NR1Drawn, tied or no result
South Africa wins14South Africa victories

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