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Jason Roy's mediocre signifier led to him being dropped from England's squad astatine past year's T20 World Cup| First one-day international, Bloemfontein: |
| South Africa 298-7 (50 overs): Van der Dussen 111, Miller 53; Curran 3-35 |
| England 271 (44.2 overs): Roy 113; Nortje 4-62 |
| South Africa won by 27 runs |
| Scorecard. |
England carelessly fell to a 27-run decision successful the archetypal one-day planetary against South Africa contempt Jason Roy's belligerent period successful Bloemfontein.
On the time Jofra Archer made his comeback from injury, opener Roy crashed a 79-ball period to seemingly enactment his broadside connected people for a comfy triumph successful pursuit of 299.
He powered England to 146-0 wrong 20 overs and 196-3 successful the 30th implicit earlier helium was caught connected the bound for 113 from 91 balls.
But the wicket of Moeen Ali 4 overs aboriginal began a illness of six wickets for 49 runs successful the look of fiery accelerated bowling.
Anrich Nortje took 3-13 successful a four-over spell and England were bowled retired for 271 successful with 5.4 overs to spell to implicit a singular turnaround.
Rassie van der Dussen had earlier deed a measured 111 from 117 balls successful South Africa's 298-7.
It had looked arsenic though the hosts had failed to capitalise connected being 75-1 aft 10 overs and 167-3 aft 30, Sam Curran starring an England fightback with 3-35.
On his archetypal England quality for astir 2 years, Archer struggled astatine times, finishing with figures of 1-81 from 10 overs - his astir costly figures successful ODIs.
The triumph puts South Africa 1-0 up successful the three-match bid earlier Sunday's 2nd ODI and is simply a boost for the hosts' bid to suffice automatically for this year's 50-over World Cup.
More to follow.
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