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Tristan Stubbs' ODI ton moves South Africa into 2-0 lead
Tristan Stubbs' lady ODI century set South Africa up for a 174-run win that gave them an unassailable 2-0 series lead against Ireland. Stubbs followed up his lady ODI fifty in the last game with an unbeaten 81-ball 112 that controlled South Africa to 343 for 4 after they won the throw in Abu Dhabi. Lizaad Williams then got three wickets, all with the new ball, really closing Ireland out of the challenge inside the initial 10 overs of their pursuit.
Ireland slid to 117 for 9 and it took the third-most elevated tenth wicket stand in Ireland's set of experiences, between Graham Hume and Craig Youthful, to take them to 169.
Stubbs came in to bat in the 24th over with South Africa 136 for 2, despite the fact that he was actually batting at No. 5 with Temba Bavuma having resigned harmed subsequent to harming his left elbow.
Stubbs began energetically and his accomplice Kyle Verreynne got a move on after he had been essential for a 58-run stand with Rassie van der Dussen.
Verreynne, drafted into the XI for the harmed Tony de Zorzi, took on anything short, as he pulled Gavin Hoey for four preceding playing a short-arm hit through midwicket off Imprint Adair.
Two balls later, Stubbs additionally pulled Adair for his most memorable limit.
Then, in the 32nd over, Verreynne again pulled Adair for four to raise his 50 years as well as the fifty-run stand.
As Ireland took a gander at various choices for a forward leap, Stubbs punched Hume through cover prior to playing a back-foot punch over cover for six off a Hoey half-tracker.
The team set aside a couple all the more short balls before Verreynne moved down the track to McBrine just to miss the ball and be baffled.
There was a time of 28 balls without a limit that followed, before Stubbs scooped Hume in the 43rd over to get to 70.
Wiaan Mulder set two or three short balls aside in the following two overs Hume yielded 18 in the 46th, with Stubbs representing 17 of them. He hit him over midwicket for two sixes, with a flicked four in the middle between.
Stubbs got an external edge for four in the 48th to take him to 99 preceding a solitary raised the 100 years. He hit two additional limits either side of Mulder getting long-on and afterward choosing the defender there to fall for 43.
Adair offered only five runs in the 50th over, however South Africa previously appeared to have a sizable amount of runs in the tank.
This was just the third time in men's ODIs that the best six of a group had each made at least 35.
Williams, new off a four-for in the main ODI, gave South Africa their most memorable leap forward in the second finished, as Andy Balbirnie got an inside edge that diverted onto the stumps off his cushions.
Paul Stirling began the following once again by creaming Lungi Ngidi through cover before the quick bowler got a length ball to jag in forcefully from outside off to collide with leg stump.
Harry Tector and Curtis Campher reconstructed with a run-a-ball stand of 37, preceding Williams struck two times in two balls, getting Campher to edge behind prior to catching Stephen Doheny in front. Doheny looked into just for ball-following to show the ball cutting leg stump for umpire's call.
Ottneil Baartman then, at that point, welcomed Tector to drive away from his body and prompted an edge that Rickelton ate up. Ireland had lost a portion of their side inside the tenth over, with just 50 sudden spikes in demand for the board.
George Dockrell then chipped Andile Phehlukwayo to mid-on in the thirteenth over as Ireland slipped towards another whipping. Adair hit two fours and a six preceding he holed out attempting to clear the ropes again to give Mulder his most memorable wicket. Andy McBrine and Gavin Hoey kept close by, with the youthful legspinner hitting Mulder over cover for six to take Ireland past 100 in the 22nd over.
They got a limit each off Bjorn Fortuin before McBrine missed an opposite clear off the spinner to be caught lbw.
Hoey got a top edge for one more four preceding holing out to profound midwicket off Ngidi next ball.
Hume and Youthful then placed on 52 to defer the unavoidable, with Hume hitting two sixes and Youthful getting three fours and a six preceding Fortuin wrapped up the success for South Africa.
South Africa began consistent in the wake of winning the throw, with Ryan Rickelton carrying on from where he left off in the primary ODI and Bavuma peering sharp subsequent to getting out economically in that game.
Bavuma rearranged down the wrinkle to flick Hume through midwicket in the fourth over for South Africa's most memorable limit, and Rickelton then flicked Adair over midwicket for two limits in the following over.
Bavuma then, at that point, slapped Craig Youthful before guide prior to descending the track toward Adair to lift him over mid-off.
The two took advantage of the last over of the powerplay, with Rickelton hitting Youthful over lengthy off for six preceding Bavuma flicked him over midwicket for another.
Bavuma then, at that point, got harmed in the twelfth over as he plunged to finish a solitary. He got treatment to his left side elbow and continued at the non-striker's end, yet resigned hurt two balls later, finishing the initial stand at 68.