Star earns place in England history
Chris Jordan became England’s highest T20 International wicket-taker during England’s third T20 versus South Africa in Cape Town – and put himself in the history books as a result.
Jordan dismissed Quinton de Kock for the third time in three games to reach a total of 66 T 20 International wickets, having the big-hitting South African wicket keeper caught by Tom Curran for 17.
The Barbados-born star overtook Stuart Broad to reach the milestone – ad has become the first BA ME player ever to be top of a historical bowling ranking for England.
Despite the early wicket, he and teammate Jofra Archer were unable to stop the powerful ball-striking of Faf du Plessis and Rassie van der Dussen as Jordan returned figures of 1-42 from his allocation with Archer finishing on 0-44 from his spell.
Neither was needed with the bat as England cruised to a nine-wicket win thanks to a man-of-the-match innings from Dawid Malan with 99 not out along with a handy contribution of 67 not out from Jos Buttler to seal a 3-0 series whitewash.
England should have been in further action this week with the start of their ODI series against the Proteas, but positive corona virus tests put the series in doubt.
The first ODI was called off hours before it was due to start on Sunday when two unconfirmed positive Covid tests were confirmed in the England camp.
Archer and Jordan were not due to be involved in the ODI series. Archer, a regular in England’s white-ball setup across both formats was being rested from the squad after a busy period of months in the IP Land in South Africa.