World champions become a target for anyone to beat

England-South Africa series thrilling win for South Africa. South Africa won the last match by 90 runs in a winner-takes-all series.

Batting first, South Africa scored 191 runs while England scored 101 runs and were all out. Spinner Shamsi conceded 24 runs and took five wickets for South Africa. With this, England suffered their third consecutive series defeat under the new captain Jos Buttler. Earlier, England lost the Twenty20 series and ODI series against India.

The team has not won a single white-ball series since the departure of Eoin Morgan, the captain who led the team to World Cup wins. If England was a team that nobody thought could be beaten until two months ago, today England is becoming a team that everyone can come and knock and leave.

India and South Africa used England’s attacking style of playing against them. England, which is known for such matches, was failing somewhere.

Meanwhile, England won the first match of the series. After scoring 234, England managed to restrict South Africa to 193 runs. But England’s batting line-up collapsed in the next two matches. In the second match, England were all out for 149 in front of the target of 208 runs set by South Africa.

Jos Buttler met the media after the series and was very critical of the team as a whole. He said that nobody could bring out their best performance with the bat and the team played scared.

“We never took responsibility for ourselves in batting. Not even once did we manage to put pressure on the opposition team. I think a little timidity is probably the thing that most frustrates us. “We’ve been known as a brave, risk-taking team and we want to be known that way,” Butler said.

England’s batting was also broken against India. After losing the first two Twenty20 matches against India, England got a consolation win in the third match. After losing the first ODI match, England managed to win the second match. But in the third match, England collapsed in front of Rishabh Pant’s excellent batting.

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