England and South Africa will once face off in the five match ODI series, this time in Centurion on Tuesday morning at 11:30 UK time, with the visitors looking to clinch the series after winning the last two matches easily.
South Africa, on the other hand, will be hoping to change their fortunes around after a dismal start to the ODI series, which continued on Saturday when they were beaten by five wickets.
The hosts have had a largely disappointing time against England in both formats, as they also lost the recent test series 2-1 and, were outplayed for large majorities of that.
England look a different team in this format and their team is now exciting to watch, as they have many options to choose from as the likes of Stuart Broad, James Taylor and Jonny Bairstow have all not even featured in the series, which underlines the current depth of the squad.
They were simply superb with the bat in the first ODI, scoring 399 which was was largely built around a fantastic 100 from Jos Buttler, but there were many other useful contributions from all done the order which ultimately was too much for the hosts. Then, in the second ODI, South Africa chose to bat first but they struggled to ever get going and could only muster 262-7 from their 50 overs, which the visitors chased down with more than three overs remaining.
England consistent
Ever since the disappointment of last year’s World Cup, England have been one of the best teams in terms of limited over's results and have risen to sixthm but due to the nature of last year’s results England are still some way off from climbing further up the list and catching the likes of Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Since the World Cup, England have played three ODI series and have won two, being incredibly competitive throughout as they took world champions Australia all the way last summer before narrowly losing the last ODI.
Contributions from all
The form of Alex Hales in the international game has been a worry of late as he's struggled in both ODI'S and Test matches, but he looked back at is best in the previous game as he scored a fantastic 99.
There hae only been two matches in the series so far, and England have been unchanged in both matches, as throughout the line-up everyone has performed well at one time or another.
England's biggest player going into the series would have been Joe Root and he has played well in the past two games. However, whilst has got in in both innings, the batsman yet to really go on and put in that match winning innings which everyone knows he is more than capable of doing. If anything, the fact that the tourists have won both games comfortably without Root performing amazingly, is a good thing.
Reece Topley is another who has taken his game to a different level since being involved with England, and has already taken five wickets in the series which included four in the previous ODI as his fantastic performance brought England an excellent performance in the field and made the task much easier for the batsmen. All of these players performing bids very well for the future of English 50 over cricket.
Possible line-ups:
England: Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Ben Stokes, Jos Butler, Moeen Ali, Chris Jordan, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley.
South Africa: Quinton de Kock(wk), Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis, AB de Villiers(c),J P Duminy, Rilee Rossouw, Farhaan Behardien, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel, Imran Tahir.