Monstrous Malan and bludgeoning Buttler batter shameful SA into submission on the way to series whitewash

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Rassie van der Dussen and Faf du Plessis did their best to stave off the ignominy of a whitewash at home, but Jos Buttler and Dawid Malan cakewalked what should have been a tough chase by nine wickets with 14 balls to spare.

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SA, through the middle-order duo, batted out of their skins to get to 191/3 in their 20 overs. But a visceral assault of the highest order from Buttler and Malan in a world-record stand of 167 off 90 balls saw England pass that score in 17.4 overs.

Malan, who should have been run out on 37 when De Kock fumbled a straightforward chance in the ninth over, motored to a 26-ball 50 with seven fours and one six and proceeded to brutalise the South African attack. Having shrugged off the palpably out of form Jason Roy in the fourth over off Anrich Nortjé, they played themselves in, then proceeded to crush the hapless hosts in an awesome of initially measured, then unbridled, aggression.

This approach was missing in the first two games in which England’s smart bowling and clever use of the conditions constricted SA.

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