Triple ton!

[Lord Jim]

I've been trying to watch that, but I keep dozing off at about a minute 30.....

[Sean]

Silly you Gob!

You assume that these ex-colonials have a two minute attention span...

[MajGenl.Meade]

What do the Irish know about cricket anyway?

[Sean]

Not very much Meade but at least the buggers have a go!

[Gob]

That man Amla strikes again....

South Africa 287-5 (50 overs) beat England 207 (40.4 overs) by 80 runs

Match scorecard

Hashim Amla hit 150 as South Africa beat England by 80 runs in the second one-day international at Southampton.

The Proteas' victory took them to the top International Cricket Council's one-day rankings and ended England's run of 10 wins from their last 10 completed ODIs.

The tourists' 287-5 in 50 overs was built on an 89-run opening partnership between Amla and Graeme Smith (52).

England lost regular wickets as they were dismissed for 207 in 40.4 overs.

"That was a brilliant 100 from Amla, off 96 balls with 10 fours. If you wrapped it up and brought it out in 15 years, you would still say that it was a wonderful innings. His placement and the way he timed the ball was superb."

Ian Bell (45), Jonathan Trott (23) and Craig Kieswetter (20) all made starts without going on, and when Eoin Morgan was sixth man out for 27 with 129 runs still needed off 98 balls, England's last realistic chance of winning the game had gone.

Samit Patel and Steven Finn gave the supporters in the Ageas Bowl some fun with some spirited late hitting in a last-wicket stand of 37 before Patel was last man out, caught behind by AB de Villiers off Morne Morkel for 45 from 51 balls.

Spinner Robin Peterson was the pick of the Proteas' bowlers, although his figures of 2-51 from nine overs were rather ruined by conceding 20 runs to Finn and Patel in his final over.

On a slow wicket that gave help to the spinners and made run scoring difficult, South Africa's challenging total of 288 was largely down to Amla's superbly paced innings, his 150 coming from just 124 deliveries.

In the 57th innings of his one-day international career, Amla became the fastest batsman to 3,000 ODI runs, requiring 12 innings fewer than Sir Vivian Richards.

[MajGenl.Meade]

We South Africans are very proud! We'll be number 1 as long as we has him

Meade

[The Hen]

I love a multicultural society.