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Time to keep your eye on the ball as England host South Africa
Blackpool Gazette
|August 30, 2025
England host South Africa in a three-match one-day international series, starting next Tuesday at Headingley.
Further games take place at Lord's on Thursday and at Hampshire's Utilita Bowl three days later.
Gary Kirsten's record ODI score for South Africa, a not out innings in a World Cup tie against the United Arab Emirates in a World Cup tie in Rawalpindi in 1996.
There have been 12 double centuries in ODIs, three of them by India's Rohit Sharma including a record 264 off 173 balls against Sri Lanka in 2014.
This story is from the August 30, 2025 edition of Blackpool Gazette.
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