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Champions Trophy 2025: South Africa restricts England to 179
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Champions Trophy 2025: South Africa restricts England to 179

South Africa’s Wiaan Mulder celebrates with Keshav Maharaj and Marco Jansen after taking the wicket of England’s Adil Rashid, caught out by Heinrich Klaasen. | Photo Credit: Reuters South Africa bowlers produced a unified bowling show to bundle out England for 179 in 38.2 overs in their Champions Trophy Group B fixture on Saturday (March 1, 2025).Marco Jansen (3/39) took three wickets upfront to reduce England to 37 for three inside seven overs and they failed to stage recovery at any stage in the game.Joe Root top-scored with 37 but several England batters including skipper Jos Buttler (21), Ben Duckett (24) and even Jofra Archer (25) failed to push on.Brief Scores: England 179; 38.3 overs (Joe Root 37; Marco...
Jos Buttler resigns as England ODI, T20I captain after Champions Trophy 2025 exit
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Jos Buttler resigns as England ODI, T20I captain after Champions Trophy 2025 exit

Jos Buttler has stepped down as England’s white-ball captain following his team’s Champions Trophy 2025 group-stage exit on Friday. Buttler announced his decision on the eve of the team’s final league stage match against South Africa, confirming that the match at the National Stadium in Karachi on Saturday will be his last as the leader of the white-ball setups. After suffering a defeat to Australia in their group-stage opener last week, Buttler’s men suffered a harrowing defeat to Afghanistan in Lahore. England came up eight runs short as Afghanistan put on an inspired performance to pile on 325 runs on the back of opener Ibrahim Zadran’s 177 and held their nerves to see off the 2019 World Cup winners. The loss marked England’s seventh successive loss under Buttler’s captaincy starting f...