England v South Africa: third ODI abandoned after rain descends – live!

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England levelled the series at Old Trafford but who will take the deciding ODI at Headingley? Join Daniel Gallan.

Bye bye! Cheers everyone. Sorry we couldn’t hang longer, but in the enduring words of our (soon to be ex) leader, them’s the breaks.

Go well.

Jos Buttler is keen to reflect on how this ODI side goes about filling the Ben Stokes shaped hole. A few names stepped up, mind.

“It is something that we can sit on now and look ahead to what does that look like when Ben is missing from this team and to make sure that we have the World Cup in mind,” Jos said.

“Those conditions that we might face in India, what will we need out there and when you have a genuine allrounder like Ben, you are always going to feel short, in either the batting or the bowling. Just for us to have the time to workout which way we want to go and give guys opportunities to stake a claim for that place.”

Keshav Maharaj loved seeing the “old Quinny” The South African skipper lauds his dashing opener who has had his troubles the last 18 months but was sublime today.

“ He looked really in good touch, pity he couldn’t get the magical three-figure mark. There is a lot of cricket left, and hopefully he can replicate the form. We have found a very good combination, a few players were rested, they will slot in. We just need to be more focused and take the opportunity”

He says that we can expect the same faces in the T20 series, though he isn’t captain for that one. That’s David Miller.

Rassie wins player of the series. The only centurion in the three matches gets the nod from the written press.

“We’re pretty close,” Rassie says of where the team would like to be. “We’ve got a blueprint.”

And his role? “Being adaptable, playing