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Preview With the result of the series sealed, the final T20I will give both sides an opportunity to fine tune their ideal XI for the upcoming T20 World Cup Big Picture It’s South Africa’s last dance at the end of two months away from home and they will want to …

Preview If Ireland want to test themselves before the T20 World Cup, this is their chance Big Picture South Africa are one win away from being able to declare their winter tours successful bar one ODI defeat. Victory in the T20I series will give them three trophies out of four, …

Preview The two countries meet for the first time in the shortest format with a global event looming not far off Big Picture After a first last week – when Ireland beat South Africa in an ODI for the first time – there’s another coming this week. The two teams …

Big Picture Ireland are one win away from their biggest ODI achievement on home soil. Victory over South Africa in the third ODI will be the first time they take a series off a team ranked in the top eight, the first time they beat a top eight team in …

Preview Quinton de Kock and Anrich Nortje could slot back into the XI while William Porterfield might be retained as opener Big picture This series didn’t get the David and Goliath stereotype Andy Balbirnie joked about in the lead-up to the first ODI, but it did get another: rain. Only …

Big Picture “You could say it’s David and Goliath, but David beat Goliath and hopefully that can work for us.” Andy Balbirnie has probably rehearsed that line hundreds of times and knows he will need to bring it out hundreds more but showed no sign of being worn down by …