Score and match updates from series decider at Headingley

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Hello and welcome to Telegraph Sport’s coverage of England’s one-day international series decider against South Africa.

England lost the first match, but levelled the series with a 118-run victory at Old Trafford on Friday.

South Africa’s Heinrich Klaasen confessed to playing “old school tricks” and stalling for time in that defeat to England.

“It was just a little bit of old school tricks to see if I just change the momentum and slow the game down a little bit,” he said.

“The English boys didn’t like it. I knew it was going to come so it’s nothing new to me. But for me, in that situation, we weren’t in a great position so it was just to upset the rhythm of the game a little, just see what happens. The rain came down a little bit harder… hopefully the umpires could have taken us off.”

A minimum of 20 overs per innings are required to constitute a completed match and, with 11 gone, Klaasen initiated a break in play as he complained about a small patch of white at the bottom of the sight screen at the Brian Statham End.

“It frustrated a lot of their guys so the trick worked a little bit. Stuff like that doesn’t bother me at all, it’s fun and games,” he said.

“Hopefully we can have a cool drink or a beer after the next game and be good mates. If they can keep it on the field, it’s easy for me to keep it on the field. I don’t have any issues with what they say, what they call me, what they do to me. But let’s keep that on the field.”

England’s Brydon Carse has been ruled out of today’s match after he sustained an injury to his right big toe during the opening ODI at Chester-le Street on Tuesday.

The Durham bowler is the latest in a long line of England fast bowlers to suffer injury lay-offs. Jofra Archer, Saqib Mahmood, Olly Stone and Matthew Fisher are all out with stress fractures in the back, while Mark Wood and Chris Woakes are also out with injury.

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