{"id":398629,"date":"2025-09-05T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398629\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:42:29","slug":"england-wins-toss-bowling-first-and-drops-baker-for-2nd-odi-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398629\/","title":{"rendered":"England wins toss, bowling first and drops Baker for 2nd ODI against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON &#8212; England won a delayed toss and opted to bowl first against South Africa at Lord&#8217;s in the second one-day international in the three-match series on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/england-south-africa-odi-cricket-e25c81031b49dec52be0bd83baed1505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa won the first ODI<\/a> by seven wickets on Tuesday after dismissing England for 131, and is looking to clinch the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">England dropped fast bowler Sonny Baker, who had figures of 0-76 from seven overs and was out first ball with the bat on his international debut in the first ODI at Headingley. He was replaced by Saqib Mahmood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Proteas were returning to the home of cricket 2 1\/2 months after beating Australia there to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-africa-australia-wtc-final-667bef80ea1a0b2f8ee45e0b2caf1d15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">win the World Test Championship<\/a> and made two changes. Matt Breetzke came into the middle order after Tony de Zorzi was ruled out with a hamstring injury, while Wiaan Mulder missed out because of illness and was replaced by Senuran Muthusamy. Star pacer Kagiso Rabada was still missing because of an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Play was due to start at 1:15 p.m. local time (1215 GMT), 15 minutes later than scheduled, because of morning rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lineups:<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">England: Jamie Smith, Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook (captain), Jos Buttler, Jacob Bethell, Will Jacks, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Saqib Mahmood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">South Africa: Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickleton, Temba Bavuma, Matt Breetzke, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Senuran Muthusamy, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Lungi Ngidi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP cricket: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON &#8212; England won a delayed toss and opted to bowl first against South Africa at Lord&#8217;s in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[137585,3907,748,1406,393,4884,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-137585","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148917572107601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}