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Stuart Broad skittles out South Africa

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IN FULL FLIGHT: Stuart Broad ripped through the South African line-up with a superb spell.

NOTTINGHAM: Stuart Broad took a career-best five for 23 as England skittled out South Africa for 83 in the second ODI at Trent Bridge here on Tuesday.

Broad’s pace and control on his home ground brought him five wickets and his figures were even better until Andre Nel hit three boundaries off his 10th and final over.

Broad’s performance was the fifth best by an Englishman in ODIs.

Nel was the leading scorer with a quick-fire 13 from seven balls after coming in at No. 9, showing how close South Africa came to falling short of its lowest ever ODI total. That was the 69 it managed against Australia in 1993.

Wicketkeeper Matt Prior took six catches, four of them off Broad’s bowling, while Andrew Flintoff continued his return to bowling form with three for 29. Steve Harmison bowled just one over, but still took two wickets.

Solid start

South Africa won the toss and chose to bat. It made a solid start before Broad had Herschelle Gibbs caught behind for 10 to make it 16 for one in the fourth over. Captain Graeme Smith went the same way two overs later as Prior dived across Owais Shah at first slip to take a dramatic one-handed catch.

Shah did get to catch when Jacques Kallis fell to Broad for six, but Jean-Paul Duminy then fell to the Broad-Prior combination to make it 36 for four.

A.B. de Villiers was trapped in front by Flintoff, who then had Mark Boucher caught behind by Prior for 10 off 33 balls — making him the only other batsman to reach double figures.

Broad got rid of Johan Botha to have figures of five for 11 off 9.2 overs, before Nel slightly tarnished the paceman’s analysis.

The relief lasted hardly any time, though, and Nel was out to Harmison’s first ball to make it 68 for eight.

A four from Albie Morkel took South Africa past its previous lowest mark before the all-rounder — the only change to the South Africa side that lost last week’s opening match by 20 runs — was caught by Prior off Harmison for six.

Flintoff wrapped things up in the following over — the 23rd — when he clean bowled Dale Steyn. — AP

SCOREBOARD

South Africa: G. Smith c Prior b Broad 9, H. Gibbs c Prior b Broad 10, J. Kallis c Shah b Broad 6, A.B. de Villiers lbw b Flintoff 5, J.P. Duminy c Prior b Broad 8, M. Boucher c Prior b Flintoff 10, J. Botha c Prior b Broad 1, A. Morkel c Prior b Harmison 6, A. Nel c Wright b Harmison 13, D. Steyn b Flintoff 6, M. Ntini (not out) 0; Extras (lb-1, w-8): 9; Total (in 23 overs): 83.

Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-25, 3-26, 4-36, 5-45, 6-50, 7-53, 8-68, 9-72.

England bowling: Anderson 5-0-26-0, Broad 10-3-23-5, Flintoff 7-0-29-3, Harmison 1-0-4-2.

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