20/20 Cricket at its best

The 2 game Twenty/20 Series between South Africa and England didn't really tell us anything about who would be top dog come the One Day International Series or the Test Series but it was definitely fun, and it appeared to be raining 6's both at Johannesburg and Centurion.

First game and England posted a pretty good 202 with a sublime innings of 85 from Mr Morgan (he who used to play for Ireland you may remember) including an incredible shot where he flicked it over his head and over the keepers head for 6. Of course England largely have the rain to thank for their win as South Africa seemed to be well on their way to chasing that total down and were clearing the ropes enough times on their own, which of course meant the dancers never got a rest.

So England went into game 2 in the series confident but with Alistair Cook captaining the side as Paul Collingwood was out with a bad back, but we did have the returning Kevin Pietersen to boost our hopes. Those hopes soon vanished as the opening pair combined to put on 170 and in total they hit 17 maximums in their mammoth total of 241-6 and as Englands highest ever 20/20 score was the 202 they made in the previous game they never looked threatened. The only real positive note was a good half century from Jonathan Trott although at one point with Trott and Pietersen out batting together all 13 players on the field were born in South Africa.

So with Injuries running through the squad: Paul Collingwood (back), Stuart Broad (Shoulder) and James Anderson (Knee) and the One Day International Series starting on Friday, and the bowlers trying to recover from the pasting they received in the 20/20's (mahmood 4 overs for 61 and Rashid 1 over for 25) it's shaping up to be a good competitive series.

Elsewhere there were hundreds for Rahul Dravid, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Tillakaratne Dilshan in the match between India and Sri Lanka with Dravid playing a brilliant innings of 177 after his side had collapsed to 32-4.