As the first T20I drew to a close, England looked like they had everything under control on a balmy Wednesday evening in East London. With seven balls to go, a victory and a series lead seemed to be a formality. Just a matter of crossing the i's and dotting the t's. Until, suddenly, it wasn't all under control. The formality rather quickly turned into calamity. England needed just a run a ball from those last seven deliveries of their innings. They had five wickets in hand to boot and captain Eoin Morgan and Moeen Ali at the crease. It should have been a gimme. Cricket Betting Tips It was a gimme. Instead, they lost four wickets and mustered just five runs to fall short of South Africa's total. Lungi Ngidi's final over was impressive but England's failure to get over the line was more down to batsmen error than bowler induced. Pressure is a funny old thing. Both Morgan and Tom Curran were caught on the boundary, needlessly so. The captain had just take...
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